Journal of Fluids Engineering: Recent submissions
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Hydrofoil Drag Reduction by Partial Cavitation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Partial cavitation reduces hydrofoil friction, but a drag penalty associated with unsteady cavity dynamics usually occurs. With the aid of inviscid theory a design procedure is developed to ... -
An Advanced Numerical Model for Single Straight Tube Coriolis Flowmeters
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A detailed numerical model has been developed to simulate the single straight tube Coriolis flowmeter, which includes all important practical features. The measuring tube is modeled as fluid-tube ... -
2007 Fluids Engineering Award
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Moderately and Widely Spaced Circular Cylinders in Crossflow and a Universal Wake Number
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The universal wake number concept was examined for the flow around two circular cylinders of equal diameter arranged in moderately and widely spaced staggered configurations. The experiments were ... -
Small-Amplitude Frequency Behavior of Fluid Lines With Turbulent Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1969)The results of semiempirical analytical and experimental studies of the acoustic frequency response of circular tubes with a mean turbulent flow are given. For the frequency range tested, it ... -
A Comparative Study of DES and URANS for Flow Prediction in a Two-Pass Internal Cooling Duct
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The capabilities of the detached eddy simulation (DES) and the unsteady Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (URANS) versions of the 1988 k-ω model in predicting the turbulent flow field in a two-pass ... -
The Classical Plane Couette-Poiseuille Flow With Variable Fluid Properties
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A theoretical study of the effect of variable viscosity and variable thermal conductivity on the classical plane Couette-Poiseuille flow is presented in this brief communication. The investigation ... -
Reynolds Stress Model in the Prediction of Confined Turbulent Swirling Flows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Strongly swirling vortex chamber flows are examined experimentally and numerically using the Reynolds stress model (RSM). The predictions are compared against the experimental data in terms of ... -
A Low-Reynolds Number Explicit Algebraic Stress Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A low-Reynolds number extension of the explicit algebraic stress model, developed by Gatski and Speziale (GS) is proposed. The turbulence anisotropy Πb and production to dissipation ratio P∕ϵ ... -
Experimental Examination of Unsteady Friction Models for Transient Pipe Flow Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The paper presents a comparative analysis of calculations performed basing on the selected unsteady friction models and their validation based on the results of own experimental tests. The ... -
3-D Simulation of Dividing Flows in 90deg Rectangular Closed Conduits
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Dividing flows in closed conduits (Fig. 1) are encountered often in environmental engineering and hydraulic engineering, while dealing with water and wastewater treatment plants, water distribution ... -
Numerical Prediction Method for Growth and Deformation of Filter Cakes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)During filtration of a fluid-solid mixture, a filter cake composed of solids is formed on the upstream side of the permeable interface—the filtrate or clean fluid passes through but not the ... -
Experimental Study of Drop Deformation and Breakup in a Model Multitoothed Rotor-Stator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The objective of this work is to experimentally study the deformation behavior and breakup process suffered by a droplet submitted to the complex flow developed in a model multitoothed rotor-stator. ... -
Characterization of the Nonaerated Flow Region in a Stepped Spillway by PIV
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The development of the roller-compacted concrete (RCC) as a technique of constructing dams and the stepped surface that results from the construction procedure opened a renewed interest in stepped ... -
Influence of Flow Coefficient, Stagger Angle, and Tip Clearance on Tip Vortex in Axial Compressors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Experiments have been performed on the low speed research compressor (LSRC) at General Electric Aircraft Engines to investigate the effects of flow coefficient, stagger angle, and tip clearance ... -
Comparison of Computational Results Obtained From a Homogeneous Cavitation Model With Experimental Investigations of Three Inducers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The paper presents full 3D numerical simulations and experimental investigations of the cavitating flow through three axial inducers. These inducers are identified by the tip blade angle at the ... -
A Finite-volume Approach for Simulation of Liquid-column Separation in Pipelines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A finite-volume approach, based on the MUSCL-Hancock method, is presented and applied to liquid-column separation transients in pipelines. In the mathematical model, sudden closure of a valve on ... -
Optimization of an Innovative Rotary Shaft Pump (RSP)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This paper describes the optimization of rotary shaft pump performance, which is accomplished by comparing the performance of four different centrifugal rotary pump configurations: hooked blades ... -
Impact and Dispersion of Liquid Filled Cylinders
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The computational and experimental results of impact loading a thin wall liquid filled cylindrical target within a vacuum chamber are presented. The impact velocity ranges from 2.2 to 4.2km∕s. ... -
Experimental Investigation of the Flow Distribution Inside a Tubular Heat Exchanger
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The velocity field inside a new concept of heat exchanger, which is a component of a high protons linear accelerator, is investigated experimentally in order to validate the design. A full ...