Abstract: Creep is an important factor that contributes to the clamp load loss and tightness failure of bolted joints with and without gaskets over time. Retightening of the joint can be expensive and time consuming; therefore, it ...

Abstract: The kinetic theory of gas is used to predict the specific heat and thermal conductivity of ZnO nanostructures. In this model, phonons are considered as a gas whose basic properties are given ...

Abstract: We present a numerical procedure to predict impact-related wave-induced (slamming) loads on ships. The procedure was applied to predict slamming loads on two ships that feature a flared bow ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the seakeeping behavior of helicopters after an emergency landing in water, focusing on a Northern North Sea wave climate and considering a realistic helicopter geometry. Computational fluid dynamics ...

Abstract: Fuel cell systems represent a promising alternative energy converter. In the past years, researches have been conducted for their modeling, control, and diagnosis. The model should accurately reproduce the behavior without ...

Abstract: We present a numerical study of Dean instability for non-Newtonian fluids in a laminar 180deg curved-channel flow of rectangular cross section. A methodology based on the Papanastasiou model (, ...

Abstract: Many microfluidic applications involve chemical reactions. Most often, the flow is predominantly laminar, and without active or passive mixing enhancement the reaction time can be extremely long compared to the residence ...

Abstract: A Rankine source method is extended and applied to ship–ship interaction problems. The method covers the nonlinear steady flow and linear seakeeping in the frequency domain. The nonlinear steady flow solution accounts ...

Abstract: A Rankine source method is applied to predict linear and weakly nonlinear sectional loads of a modern container ship. The method uses solution in the frequency domain, linearized with respect to wave amplitude about the ...

Abstract: This paper analyzed the effects of freak waves on a mobile jack-up drilling platform stationed in exposed waters of the North Sea. Under freak wave conditions, highly nonlinear effects, such ...