Journal of Fluids Engineering: Recent submissions
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Some Exact Solutions to Equations of Motion of an Incompressible Third Grade Fluid
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This investigation deals with some exact solutions of the equations governing the steady plane motions of an incompressible third grade fluid by using complex variables and complex functions. ... -
PIV Study of Separated and Reattached Open Channel Flow Over Surface Mounted Blocks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)A particle image velocimetry is used to study the mean and turbulent fields of separated and redeveloping flow over square, rectangular, and semicircular blocks fixed to the bottom wall of an ... -
Entropy Generation in the Viscous Parts of Turbulent Boundary Layers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The local (pointwise) entropy generation rate per unit volume S‴ is a key to improving many energy processes and applications. Consequently, in the present study, the objectives are to examine ... -
Passive Control of Transonic Cavity Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Open cavities at transonic speeds can result in acoustic resonant flow behavior with fluctuating pressure levels of sufficient intensity to cause significant damage to internal stores and surrounding ... -
Numerical Simulation of 3D Cavitating Flows: Analysis of Cavitation Head Drop in Turbomachinery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The numerical simulation of cavitating flows in turbomachinery is studied at the Turbomachinery and Cavitation team of Laboratoire des Ecoulements Géophysiques et Industriels (LEGI), Grenoble, ... -
Effervescent Atomization of Viscoelastic Liquids: Experiment and Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The effervescent atomization of viscoelastic liquids is reported. A total of 23 fluids, formulated from a 60wt% glycerine/40wt% water solvent to which were added varying concentrations (0.001–0.5wt%) ... -
Effect of Interfacial Waves on Turbulence Structure in Stratified Duct Flows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Stratified flows are encountered in many industrial applications. The determination of the flow characteristics is essential for the prediction of pressure drop and holdup in the system. The aim ... -
Influence of Upstream Conditions and Gravity on Highly Inertial Thin-Film Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Steady two-dimensional thin-film flow of a Newtonian fluid is examined in this theoretical study. The influence of exit conditions and gravity is examined in detail. The considered flow is of ... -
Passive Control Around the Two-Dimensional Square Back Ahmed Body Using Porous Devices
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The control of two-dimensional flows around the square back Ahmed body is achieved by using porous devices added on some parts of the body. The square back Ahmed body is considered either ... -
Identification of Flow Structures on a LP Turbine Blade Due to Periodic Passing Wakes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The paper describes the flow structures on the suction surface of a highly cambered low-pressure turbine (LPT) blade (T106 profile) subjected to periodic convective wakes. A separation bubble ... -
Calculation of Fluid Flow Distribution Inside a Compact Ceramic High Temperature Heat Exchanger and Chemical Decomposer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Numerical analysis of flow distribution inside a compact ceramic high temperature heat exchanger and chemical decomposer (thereafter, heat exchanger), which will be used for hydrogen production, ... -
Computational Investigation of Torque on Coaxial Rotating Cones
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This article looks at a modification of Taylor–Couette flow, presenting a numerical investigation of the flow around a shrouded rotating cone, with and without throughflow, using the commercial ... -
On the Flutter and Drag Forces on Flexible Rectangular Canopies in Normal Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The paper presents results of experimental investigations on flexible rectangular canopies fixed at two edges (tapes). Data are presented for the aerodynamic drag as a function of the planform ... -
Investigation of Combined Electro-Osmotic and Pressure-Driven Flow in Rough Microchannels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The present study is carried out to investigate the influence of surface roughness in combined electro-osmotic and pressure-driven flow in microchannel. Two-dimensional theoretical model is developed ... -
Image Treatment of a 2D Vapor-Liquid Compound Droplet in a Linearized Steady Viscous Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The classical method of images is used to construct closed form exact solutions for the two-dimensional (2D) perturbed flow fields in the presence of a 2D vapor-liquid compound droplet in the ... -
Finite-Amplitude Long-Wave Instability of a Thin Power-Law Liquid Film Flowing Down a Vertical Column in a Magnetic Field
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The long-wave perturbation method is employed to investigate the nonlinear hydromagnetic stability of a thin electrically conductive power-law liquid film flowing down a vertical cylinder. In ... -
Cavitation Structures in a Venturi Flow With Various Backward Facing Steps
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Cavitation inception and development caused by a backward facing step in a Venturi-type test section were studied experimentally for different step heights (0.8–4mm). High-speed cinematography and ... -
Particle Deposition Onto Rough Surfaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Predictions for the number of particles depositing from fully developed turbulence onto a fully roughened k-type surface are obtained from the results of large-eddy simulations for a ribbed-channel ... -
Understanding the Boundary Stencil Effects on the Adjacent Field Resolution in Compact Finite Differences
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)When establishing the spatial resolution character of a composite compact finite differencing template for high-order field solutions, the stencils selected at nonperiodic boundaries are commonly ... -
On the Collapse Structure of an Attached Cavity on a Three-Dimensional Hydrofoil
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)A three-dimensional twisted hydrofoil with an attached cavitaty closely related to propellers was observed with a high-speed camera at the University of Delft Cavitation Tunnel. Reentrant flow ...