Abstract: Switching phenomenon of the bathtub vortex in a double-orifice water tank is experimentally investigated. This alternation between “vortexflow” and “nonvortex flow” is caused by flow rate differences ...

Abstract: A blade-to-blade flow program incorporated in the computer-aided turbine design system is required to have short run times, robustness, and no limitations. The Denton time-marching method published ...

Abstract: Recently, a computer-aided interactive design system has been used for turbine design. The blade-to-blade flow program incorporated in the system is required to have short run times, robustness, ...

Abstract: Sand compaction piling is one of the commonly used countermeasures for earthquake liquefaction hazard of river dikes. This paper presents a case study of the performance of an instrumented dike in northeast Japan that was ...

Abstract: The effect of a heat spreader on the life of the solder joints for underfill-encapsulated, flip-chip packages is investigated through stress analyses and thermal cycling tests. An underfill with ...

Abstract: The effects of the three-dimensional flow field on the heat transfer and the film cooling on the endwall, suction, and pressure surface of an airfoil were studied using a low speed, fully ...

Abstract: Finite element analyses were conducted of the threaded marine riser connector which has the main, internal, and external shoulder seals. The objectives of the analyses are to evaluate the fatigue ...

Abstract: The film cooling effectiveness on a low-speed stationary cascade and the rotating blade has been measured by using a heat-mass transfer analogy. The film cooling effectiveness on the suction ...

Abstract: Strength and deformation of two-phase materials are investigated by the upper bound approach in relation to the volume fraction of the second-phase particles, yield strength ratio and bond ...