Journal of Fluids Engineering: Recent submissions
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Effect of Initial Temperature Profile on Recovery Factor Computations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)In many aeronautical applications the interaction between fluid flow and a high-speed vehicle is of crucial practical relevance, in view of vehicle performance as well as mechanical and thermal ... -
Sniffers: Fluid-Dynamic Sampling for Olfactory Trace Detection in Nature and Homeland Security—The 2004 Freeman Scholar Lecture
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Vertebrates aim their noses at regions of interest and sniff in order to acquire olfactory trace signals that carry information on food, reproduction, kinship, danger, etc. Invertebrates likewise ... -
Slot Jet Impinging On A Concave Curved Wall
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)In order to study the aerodynamics of a slot jet impinging a concave wall, flow visualizations, velocity measurements by particle image velocimetry (PIV) (mean velocity fields and the Reynolds ... -
Population Balance Modeling of Turbulent Mixing for Miscible Fluids
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Blending one fluid into another by turbulent mixing is a fundamental operation in fluids engineering. Here we propose that population balance modeling of fragmentation-coalescence simulates the ... -
Erratum: “A Simplified Model for Determining Interfacial Position in Convergent Microchannel Flows” [Journal of Fluids Engineering, 2004, 126(5), pp. 758–767]
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The name of the lead author, T. R. Harris, was omitted from the paper. -
The Effects of Polymer Solution Preparation and Injection on Drag Reduction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The understanding of drag reduction by injection of polymer solutions requires an adequate and accurate polymer solution preparation process as well as a thorough understanding of the effects ... -
Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulation and Performance Study of an Industrial Helical Static Mixer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)In many branches of processing industries, viscous liquids need to be homogenized in continuous operations. Consequently, fluid mixing plays a critical role in the success or failure of these ... -
Optimum Bifurcating-Tube Tree for Gas Transport
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)This paper describes optimality principles for the design of an engineering bifurcating-tube tree consisting of the convection and diffusion zones to attain the most effective gas transport. An ... -
Experimental and Numerical Investigation on the Effects of the Seeding Properties on LDA Measurements
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The characteristics of the seeding particles, which are necessary to implement the laser Doppler anemometry (LDA) technique, may significantly influence measurement accuracy. LDA data were taken ... -
Influence of Bulk Fluid Velocity on the Efficiency of Electrohydrodynamic Pumping
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The efficiency of conversion of electrical power into fluidic power in an electrohydrodynamic (EHD) pump depends on the bulk fluid velocity. An analytical formulation is developed for calculation ... -
Flow Study in the Impeller–Diffuser Interface of a Vaned Centrifugal Fan
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)In order to better understand the behavior of the fluid flow in vaned centrifugal fans, theoretical and experimental work has been carried out on unsteady three-dimensional (3D) flows. Particular ... -
Growth of Binary Alloyed Semiconductor Crystals by the Vertical Bridgman-Stockbarger Process with a Strong Magnetic Field
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)This paper presents a model for the unsteady species transport for the growth of alloyed semiconductor crystals during the vertical Bridgman-Stockbarger process with a steady axial magnetic field. ... -
Behavior of Short Lateral Dead Ends on Pipeline Transients: A Lumped Parameter Model and an Analytical Solution
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)By integrating the continuity equation over a short lateral dead end, the effects of a short lateral dead end side branch on pipeline fluid transients can be lumped into a node. The analytical ... -
On the Physics of Flow Separation Along a Low Pressure Turbine Blade Under Unsteady Flow Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The present study, which is the first of a series of investigations dealing with specific issues of low pressure turbine (LPT) boundary layer aerodynamics, is aimed at providing detailed unsteady ... -
Unsteady Numerical Simulations of Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Axial Flow Near a Narrow Gap
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Axial flow in a rectangular channel containing a cylindrical rod has been simulated numerically by solving the unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations with a Reynolds stress model. The ... -
Mass Flow Rate Controlled Fully Developed Laminar Pulsating Pipe Flows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Pressure gradient driven, laminar, fully developed pulsating pipe flows have been extensively studied by various researchers and the data for the resultant flow field are available in a number ... -
Laminar Flow Across a Bank of Low Aspect Ratio Micro Pin Fins
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)Pressure drops and friction factors associated with the forced flow of de-ionized water over staggered and in-line circular/diamond shaped micro pin-fin bundles 100μm long with hydraulic diameter ... -
Numerical Investigation of Baffle-Plate Effect on Hood-Capture Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)To protect laborers in a working environment containing toxic vapor, particles and contaminants, an efficient ventilation facility is essential. A well-designed industrial ventilation facility should ... -
Two-Dimensional Pipe Model for Laminar Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)The one-dimensional Zielke model of the energy loss in laminar pipe flow is exact but gives no information about the velocity profile. Here a two-dimensional pipe model is presented which gives ... -
Analysis for Slip Flow Over a Single Free Disk With Heat Transfer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2005)In this study the equations of motion derived by von Karman (1), with Benton’s transformations (2) for the flow over a single free disk is studied for the slip flow. The slip regime for ...