Journal of Fluids Engineering: Recent submissions
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Reduced Order Nonlinear Navier-Stokes Models for Synthetic Jets
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)While the potential for the use of synthetic jet actuators to achieve flow control has been noted for some time, most of such flow control studies have been empirical or experimental in ... -
Detached-Eddy Simulations Over a Simplified Landing Gear
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)The flow around a generic airliner landing-gear truck is calculated using the methods of Detached-Eddy Simulation, and of Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations, with the Spalart-Allmaras ... -
The Effect of Uniform Blowing on the Flow Past a Circular Cylinder
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)This work describes blowing through the whole surface of a porous circular cylinder for the control of the near wake dynamics and the thermal protection of the surface. The flow past the ... -
Discussion: “Mechanical Potential Drops at Fluid Branch” (Katz, S., 1967, ASME J. Basic Eng., 89, pp. 732–736)
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Vortex Dynamics of the Stator Wake-Rotor Cascade Interaction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)The behavior of turbine stator wakes moving with the flow through a rotor cascade is studied. The stator wake is modeled as a series of active vortices forming part of a von Karman vortex ... -
Numerical Modeling of Wind Turbine Wakes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)An aerodynamical model for studying three-dimensional flow fields about wind turbine rotors is presented. The developed algorithm combines a three-dimensional Navier-Stokes solver with a so-called ... -
RANS Model for Spilling Breaking Waves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)A RANS model for spilling breaking waves is developed, which can be implemented with ship hydrodynamics RANS CFD codes. The model is based on the Cointe & Tulin theory of steady breakers. ... -
MEMS-Micropumps: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)Microfluidics has emerged from the MEMS-technology as an important research field and a promising market. This paper gives an overview on one of the most important microfluidic components: the ... -
Bifurcations of Flow Through Plane Symmetric Channel Contraction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)Computational investigations have been performed into the behavior of an incompressible fluid flow in the vicinity of a plane symmetric channel contraction. Our aim is to determine the critical ... -
Predicting Globe Control Valve Performance—Part I: CFD Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools are evaluated for use in industrial design applications by predicting primary control valve performance characteristics. The performance parameter of primary ... -
A Method for Pressure Calculation in Ball Valves Containing Bubbles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)A method of analyzing bubbly flow in a ball valve in a hydraulic circuit is presented. The dynamics of a single bubble can be well described by a quasi-static approximation of the Rayleigh-Plesset ... -
PIV Measurements in the Impeller and the Vaneless Diffuser of a Radial Flow Pump in Design and Off-Design Operating Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)This paper presents and discusses the results of an experimental program that has been made on an air test rig of a radial flow pump. The tested impeller is the so-called SHF impeller. Many ... -
Discussion: “Speed Regulation Study for Bay D’Espoir Hydroelectric Generating Station” (Newey, R. A., 1968, ASME J. Basic Eng., 90, pp. 58–64)
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CFD Calculation of a Mixed Flow Pump Characteristic From Shutoff to Maximum Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)The behavior of the flow in a vertical semi-axial mixed flow pump has been analyzed by numerical flow simulations of the entire stage, and the results have been compared to test data. As ... -
The Effect of the Operating Point on the Pressure Fluctuations at the Blade Passage Frequency in the Volute of a Centrifugal Pump
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)An experimental investigation is presented which analyzes the unsteady pressure distribution existing in the volute of a conventional centrifugal pump with a nondimensional specific speed of 0.48, ... -
The Application of Advanced Methods in Analyzing the Performance of the Air Curtain in a Refrigerated Display Case
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling is effectively coupled with the experimental technique of Digital Particle Image Velocimetry (DPIV), to study the flowfield characteristics and performance ... -
A Study of Vortex Shedding in a Staggered Tube Array for Steady and Pulsating Cross-Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)This paper describes an experimental investigation of the vortex shedding phenomena in a staggered tube array with streamwise and transverse spacing to diameter ratios of 2.1 and 3.6, respectively. ... -
Development of Swirling Flow in a Rod Bundle Subchannel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)Experimental measurements of the axial development of swirling flow in a rod bundle subchannel are presented. Swirling flow was introduced in the subchannel from a split vane pair located on ... -
Predicting Globe Control Valve Performance—Part II: Experimental Verification
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)An experimental study was undertaken to verify an axisymmetric numerical model of a control valve flow field. The numerical model, which utilized Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), was formerly ... -
Analysis of Impinging and Countercurrent Stagnating Flows by Reynolds Stress Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2002)Numerical simulation is performed for stagnating turbulent flows of impinging and countercurrent jets by the Reynolds stress model (RSM). Results are compared with those of the k−ε model and ...