Journal of Fluids Engineering: Recent submissions
Now showing items 5821-5840 of 9024
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A Novel Method to Measure Capsule Pressure Gradient in a Pipeline
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On the Effect of Evaporation on Droplet Drag
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Numerical Analysis of Slot-Film Cooling: Effectiveness and Flow-Field
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Stability of a Compressible Laminar Wall-Jet With Heat Transfer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)The flow of a plane, laminar, subsonic perfect gas wall jet with heat transfer through the wall was investigated theoretically. For the case under consideration the entire surface was maintained ... -
Volume Flow-Rate Measurements and Scaling Laws for a Transverse-Inlet Multiple-Disk Fan
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)The air moving capacity of a transverse-inlet multiple-disk fan has been measured experimentally and the results successfully collapsed with a simple scaling law. The disk fan studied was an ... -
Pulsatile Laminar Flow in a Viscoelastic System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)This work involves the study of Newtonian transitory and permanent flow regimes in a rigid tube that has been extended to include a viscoelastic enclosure. Variable pressures are applied at ... -
Sensitivity of eN Method of Transition Prediction
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Mixed Convection in Micropolar Boundary-Layer Flow Over a Horizontal Semi-Infinite Plate
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)A boundary layer analysis is presented to study the effects of buoyancy-induced streamwise pressure gradients on laminar forced convection heat transfer to micropolar fluids from a horizontal ... -
Computation of Unsteady Separated Flow Fields Using Anisotropic Vorticity Elements
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)A novel computational methodology to compute two-dimensional unsteady separated flow fields using a vorticity based formulation is presented. Unlike traditional vortex methods, the elements used ... -
An Investigation on the Behavior of Laser Induced Bubble in Cryogenic Liquid Nitrogen
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)There have been few experimental reports on cryogenic two-phase fluids and cavitation phenomena using the irradiation of pulsed high-power laser. This paper describes an investigation of the ... -
Extension of the Wall-Driven Enclosure Flow Problem to Toroidally Shaped Geometries of Square Cross-Section
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)The two-dimensional wall-driven flow in an enclosure has been a numerical paradigm of long-standing interest and value to the fluid mechanics community. In this paradigm the enclosure is infinitely ... -
Convex Turbulent Boundary Layers With Zero and Favorable Pressure Gradients
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)A turbulent boundary layer subjected to multiple, additional strain rates, namely convex curvature coupled with streamwise pressure gradients (zero and favorable, ZPG and FPG) was investigated ... -
Exploring a Three-Equation R–k–ε Turbulence Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)A low Reynolds number extension of the k–ε model is proposed and evaluated. This version has the following attributes: (a) it does not involve wall distance or normal-to-wall directionality; ... -
Assessment of the SSG Pressure-Strain Model in Free Turbulent Jets With and Without Swirl
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)Data from free turbulent jets both with and without swirl are used to assess the performance of the pressure-strain model of Speziale, Sarkar and Gatski, which is quadratic in the Reynolds ... -
An Investigation of Turbulent Taylor-Couette Flow Using Laser Doppler Velocimetry in a Refractive Index Matched Facility
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)Turbulent Taylor-Couette flow in an annulus formed by two concentric cylinders with dead end walls was investigated with Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV). The test apparatus was designed to provide ... -
Effects of Inlet Conditions on the Flow in a Fishtail Curved Diffuser With Strong Curvature
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)The paper presents detailed measurements of the incompressible flow at the exit of a large-scale 90-degree curved diffuser with strong curvature and significant stream-wise variation in the ... -
An Improved Eddy Interaction Model for Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Particle Dispersion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)Three main effects have been observed in experimental investigations of the dispersion of low concentrations of solid particles in homogeneous turbulent flows, namely the crossing trajectories, ... -
Fluid Mechanical Considerations in the Design of an Improved Aerator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)An efficient diffused aeration device was developed using the “air lift” principle. With the aid of theoretical analysis and experimentation over a wide range of geometrical parameters, simple ... -
Study of Unsteady Orifice Flow Characteristics in Hydraulic Oil Lines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)A technique to measure fluctuating differential pressures with high fidelity has been developed first. When applied to detecting differential pressures generated by an accelerated or decelerated ... -
Effects of Solid Particle Properties on Cavitation Erosion in Solid-Water Mixtures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)A systematic investigation has been carried out on cavitation erosion in solid-water mixtures using vibratory test facilities and some analytical devices. A mixture of distilled water and ...