Journal of Fluids Engineering: Recent submissions
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A Computational Study of In-Phase and Anti-Phase Interactions of Fish in a Phalanx School
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Biological studies have shown that schooling behavior benefits fish's swimming performance. Particularly, side-by-side, or phalanx, formation, combined with the synchronization of undulation of the neighbors, was shown to ... -
A Numerical Investigation of the Longitudinal Vortex Pair Structure in Underbody Diffuser Flows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)An automotive diffuser is an open channel within the underbody of a vehicle that features a diverging ramp in the aft section. The performance of a diffuser is sensitive to ground effect where decreases in ride height ... -
Impact of Blade Design on Static Pressure Recovery of Rotor-Only Low-Pressure Axial Fans
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)In a broad range of applications, low-pressure axial fans are installed without outlet guide vanes and are discharging a swirling flow directly into a free atmosphere. A static pressure recovery can occur between a position ... -
Digitalization of Test Rigs for Model Acceptance Testing of Hydraulic Machines: Gaussian-Process-Based Digital Twin of a Turbine on a Hydraulic Test Rig for Efficiency Analysis and Test Automation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Systematic measuring of hydraulic machine's performance data at hydraulic model test rigs involves comprehensive expert knowledge of the test rig engineer and is time-consuming, as the multidimensional operation space must ... -
Orientational Dynamics of Long Flexible Fibers in Wall-Bounded Turbulence
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)In this paper, we study numerically the role of fiber length and flexibility on the orientational dynamics of slender fibers in turbulent channel flow. We consider fibers of different flexibility at varying aspect ratio, ... -
New Electro-Active Polymers-Based Plasma Actuators for Simultaneous Flow Control and Ice Protection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The current work introduces a new device for effective flow control and ice removal applications based on the combination of a nonthermal plasma discharge with the excitation of an electro-active polymer membrane. This new ... -
Rotary Displacement Pump With a Sinusoidal Working Chamber and Oscillating Pistons
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This article critically analyzes the structural design of a rotary positive displacement pump described in two patent applications. The general description of the pump in the patent applications is the main reason why the ... -
On the Dynamics of Bubbles Passing Through a Sand Bed Layer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The present research paper reports the outcomes of an extensive laboratory investigation examining the effects of grain size and air discharge on bubble dynamics of bubble plumes passing through a sand bed layer. The effects ... -
Turbulent Flow in a Transitional Rough Pipe Universal Laws; Power Law Velocity With Equivalent Log Law Velocity in the Overlap Region: Commencing From Fully Smooth Pipe Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The turbulent transitional rough pipe universal power law and equivalent log law are, independent of wall roughness, without any closure model. The open Reynolds mean momentum equations are employed without closure models ... -
A Three-Dimensional Open-Source Solver for Incompressible Viscoelastic Two-Component Flows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)In this study, we unveil a three-dimensional flow solver designed to simulate viscoelastic two-phase flows using the Oldroyd-B formulation. Acknowledging the challenges that researchers encounter in this dynamic field, we ... -
Data-Driven Sparse Reconstruction of Three-Dimensional Steady and Unsteady Flow Fields in a Centrifugal Impeller
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Advancing Machine Learning-Enhanced Flow Modeling for Collision Phenomena in Total Cavopulmonary Connection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The Fontan procedure, essential for newborns with single-ventricle malformations, establishes a total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC). Understanding TCPC hemodynamics is critical for evaluating surgical outcomes. However, ... -
Parametric Study of Impeller Ring Tongue of Regenerative Hydrogen Pump
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The clearance between impeller disk and the adjacent casing of the regenerative hydrogen pump constitutes a pair of important dynamic seals that affect pump performance and disk force. In this work, a regenerative hydrogen ... -
Research on Predicting Gas–Solid Erosion in Series Elbows Using Interpretable Machine Learning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Erosion in industrial pipelines is inevitable, making accurate prediction essential for ensuring equipment safety. This study employs interpretable machine learning models to predict erosion in serial elbows under gas–solid ... -
Air Entrainment in Hydraulic Oil: A Comprehensive Study of Influential Parameters Using Computational Fluid Dynamics and Artificial Neural Network
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Hydraulic power units (HPUs) are vital in industrial applications, but they encounter challenges due to air entrainment in hydraulic oil, which impacts flow stability, reservoir performance, and the environmental footprint. ... -
A Fundamental Viscous Flow Study to Understand a Separation Control Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Computational analyses aimed at the viscous sublayer (VSL) separation-hindering nature of boundary-layer embedded flow control ridges (FCRs), such as sharkskin denticles, are absent. Parametrically quantifying the effects ... -
Global Measurements and Hysteresis-Based NPSH Acoustic Approach for the Experimental Study of Cavitation in a Centrifugal Pump
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)One of the main drawbacks of centrifugal pumps is the reduction of their operation range to avoid cavitation. This undesired phase change phenomenon takes place as a result of high flow velocities attained in the impeller, ... -
Computational Modeling and Validation of the Schnerr–Sauer Cavitation Model With Thermodynamic Considerations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)This study investigates the thermodynamic effects of cavitation, focusing on pressure and temperature distributions on a 0.5 caliber hydrofoil surface. To highlight the impact of cavitation with thermodynamic effects, a ... -
Numerical Investigation of Nature-Inspired Dune-Shaped Vortex Generators for Drag Reduction in a D-Shaped Cylinder Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Motivated by the geometric characteristics of barchan dunes, this study presents a numerical investigation of flow control strategies for a modified D-shaped cylinder equipped with nature-inspired barchan dune-shaped vortex ... -
Flow Performance Improvement of Fluidic Oscillator Through Variation in Number of Ribs on Coanda Surface
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Fluidic oscillators with Coanda surfaces experience several problems, including frequency instability, susceptibility to surface roughness, and complex flow separation, all of which have an effect on performance and need ...