Journal of Fluids Engineering: Recent submissions
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Edge Effects on the Flow Characteristics in a 90deg Tee Junction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Measurements of pressure drop were carried out for the flow of a Newtonian fluid in 90deg tee junctions with sharp and round corners. Rounding the corners reduced the energy losses by between ... -
Thermocapillary Instabilities of Low Prandtl Number Fluid in a Laterally Heated Vertical Cylinder
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Stabilities of surface-tension-driven convection in an open cylinder are investigated numerically. The cylinder is heated laterally through its sidewall and is cooled at free surface by radiation. ... -
On the Effectiveness of Ion Slip on Steady MHD Flow and Heat Transfer Above a Rotating Disk With Ohmic Heating
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The steady flow and heat transfer of a conducting fluid due to the rotation of an infinite, nonconducting disk in the presence of an axial uniform steady magnetic field are studied considering ... -
Forced and Self-Excited Oscillations in Propellant Lines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1969)Analytical techniques used to model the dynamics of propellant feed systems of rocket engines are presented as well as experimental results which provide verification. The laboratory hydraulic ... -
Numerical and Experimental Studies of the Flow Field in a Cyclone Dryer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The performance of a newly developed cyclone dryer is investigated using RANS-based single-phase computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and experimental model studies. The cyclone dryer is a cylindrical ... -
A Computational and Experimental Investigation of the Human Thermal Plume
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The behavior of the buoyant plume of air shed by a human being in an indoor environment is important to room ventilation requirements, airborne disease spread, air pollution control, indoor ... -
Experimental Determination of Geometric Parameters for an Annular Injection Type Supersonic Ejector
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The effects of four geometric parameters of an annular injection supersonic ejector, namely, the primary nozzle exit-to-throat area ratio, the contraction angle of the mixing chamber, the ... -
DSMC Simulation of Subsonic Flows in Parallel and Series Microchannels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Flows in uniform, parallel, and series microchannels have been investigated using the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. For the uniform microchannel cases, at higher pressure ratio, ... -
Computational Analysis of a Inverted Double-Element Airfoil in Ground Effect
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The flow around an inverted double-element airfoil in ground effect was studied numerically, by solving the Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations. The predictive capabilities of six turbulence ... -
Study of Turbulent Flow Structures of a Practical Steady Engine Head Flow Using Large-Eddy Simulations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The prediction performance of two computational fluid dynamics codes is compared to each other and to experimental data of a complex swirling and tumbling flow in a practical complex configuration. ... -
Active Flow Control in Circular and Transitioning S-duct Diffusers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)Performance enhancement of three-dimensional S-duct diffusers by secondary flow and separation control using vortex generator jets is the objective of the current experimental investigation. Two ... -
Electrodynamic Oscillating Compressors: Part 2—Evaluation of Specific Designs for Gas Loads
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1969)In Part 1, electrodynamic drivers are designed for a single, linearized load. In this part, a digital computer simulation program is described. This program more accurately models the nonlinearities ... -
Ejection Process Simulation for a Piezoelectric Microdroplet Generator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The purpose of this work is to investigate the liquid ejection process of a novel microdroplet generator applying a computational approach. In simulations, the theoretical model is based on the ... -
Numerical Simulation of the Fuel Oil Cooling Process in a Wrecked Ship
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This work deals with a numerical simulation developed to predict the characteristic cooling times of a low-thermal diffusivity fuel oil confined in the tanks of a wrecked ship. A typical ... -
Study of Drag Forces on a Designed Surface in Bubbly Water Lubrication Using Electrolysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)To study the drag reduction effect of a bubbly fluid, a pin-disk experiment is performed on the Universal Micro Tribotester system. Bubbles are generated by water electrolysis in holes that ... -
Erratum: “Experimental Investigation on the Onset of Gas Entrainment from a Stratified Two-Phase Region Through Multiple Branches Mounted on a Curved Surface” [Journal of Fluids Engineering, 2006, 128(4), pp. 726–733]
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The caption for Table 2 on p. 729 should read “Experimental data for dual discharge”. -
Electro-Osmotic Flow in Reservoir-Connected Flat Microchannels With Non-Uniform Zeta Potential
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)The effects of non-uniform zeta potentials on electro-osmotic flows in flat microchannels have been investigated with particular attention to reservoir effects. The governing equations, which consist ... -
A Quasi-Generalized-Coordinate Approach for Numerical Simulation of Complex Flows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)A novel structured grid approach which provides an efficient way of treating a class of complex geometries is proposed. The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are formulated in a two-dimensional, ... -
Electrodynamic Oscillating Compressors: Part 1—Design Based on Linearized Loads
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1969)An approximate method for the design of electrodynamic oscillating gas compressors is developed. A linear spring-damper load is used to approximate the gas load at a single design point. Equations ... -
A Modified Entrainment Theory for the Prediction of Turbulent Boundary Layer Growth in Adverse Pressure Gradients
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1969)An approach based on the “entrainment” theory is presented as a tool for the prediction of turbulent boundary layer growth in adverse pressure gradients. The rate of entrainment of free-stream ...