Abstract: The environment management system of an aircraft requires regulated air at nearly constant temperature and pressure, despite their wide variations at the system inlet. A pressure regulation valve is an important part of ...

Abstract: An aerostatic bearing has been designed for supporting a heavy payload. The bearing involves an axial gap on the stator top that provides an upward lift, a bottom gap for counterbalancing the tendency of large liftoff, and ...

Abstract: Improvement of the effectiveness of heat exchanger is the demand of compact and efficient cooling devices. In that respect, a numerical study of fluid flow and heat transfer has been conducted with different arrangements ...

Abstract: A simple perturbation flow model is formulated and validated by a rigorous computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study for designing a counterbalanced vertical-axis aerostatic thrust bearing. The flow model of the orifice at ...

Abstract: Experimental and numerical analyses are carried out for a natural circulation loop (NCL) under low and moderate heater power. The effect of ambient temperature variation on the loop thermal behavior has been taken into ...