Journal of Fluids Engineering: Recent submissions
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Meta-Analysis of Gas Flow Resistance Measurements Through Packed Beds
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)Measurements of the resistance to flow through packed beds of inert spheres have been reported by a number of authors through relations expressing the coefficient of drag as a function of ... -
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Centrifugal Pump Performance During Transient Operation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)The effect of transient operation on the hydrodynamic performance of a centrifugal pump impeller was investigated experimentally. All experiments were conducted in the Naval Undersea Warfare ... -
An Investigation of Nucleating Flows of Steam in a Cascade of Turbine Blading-Theoretical Treatment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)This paper describes the theoretical part of an investigation into nucleating flows of steam in a cascade turbine nozzle blading. The main flow field is regarded as inviscid and treated by ... -
Investigation of Centrifugal Pump Performance Under Two-Phase Flow Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)A one-dimensional two-fluid model has been used to study the centrifugal pump head degradation phenomena and to analyze the gas-liquid interaction within the pump impeller under high pressure, ... -
Effect of Hydrofoil Planform on Tip Vortex Roll-Up and Cavitation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)The effect of the planform of hydrofoils on tip vortex roll-up and cavitation has been investigated by testing three foils having the same NACA 16020 cross section but different shapes. One ... -
A Numerical Investigation of Laminar Flow Past Nonspherical Solids and Droplets
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)Steady laminar flow past solitary spheroids and nonspherical droplets has been numerically analyzed. Specifically, interfacial transport properties such as surface pressures, interfacial velocities, ... -
An Experimental Data Base for the Computational Fluid Dynamics of Reacting and Nonreacting Methanol Sprays
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)The present data set consists of detailed measurements obtained within methanol sprays produced by a research atomizer which is operated with three atomizing air modes: none, non-swirling, and ... -
Navier-Stokes Analysis of the Pump Flow Field of an Automotive Torque Converter
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)A three-dimensional, incompressible, viscous flow code, developed by NASA AMES (INS3D) using the pseudo-compressibility method, is modified for torque converter flow field computations. The code ... -
Dispersion of Ellipsoidal Particles in an Isotropic Pseudo-Turbulent Flow Field
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)Dispersion of ellipsoidal particles in a simulated isotropic pseudo-turbulent field is studied. A procedure using Euler’s four parameters in describing the particle orientations is used, and the ... -
Unsteady 2-D Compressible Flow in Unbounded Domain
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)An unsteady isentropic flow model is presented to calculate the two-dimensional flow field in an arbitrarily closed region or in an open fluid domain. In the open domain, a unique boundary ... -
Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Internal Structures of Normal Shock Waves in Lennard-Jones Liquids
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)The present paper describes a highly efficient method for simulating the generation of shock waves in liquids by using the periodic-shell boundary condition, which is an outer boundary condition ... -
Measurement and Analysis of Static Pressure Field in a Torque Converter Pump
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)In this paper, the static pressure field and performance parameters of a torque converter pump are measured, analyzed, and interpreted under three turbine/pump speed ratio conditions (0, 0.6, ... -
The Axisymmetric Motion of a Liquid Film on an Unsteady Stretching Surface
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)The axisymmetric motion of a fluid caused by an unsteady stretching surface that has relevance in extrusion process and bioengineering has been investigated. It has been shown that if the ... -
Numerical Analysis of a Vortex Controlled Diffuser
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)A numerical study of a prototypical vortex controlled diffuser is performed. The basic diffuser geometry consists of a step expansion in a pipe of area ratio 2.25:1. The incompressible Reynolds ... -
The Influence of Swirl Brakes on the Rotordynamic Forces Generated by Discharge-to-Suction Leakage Flows in Centrifugal Pumps
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)Increasing interest has been given to swirl brakes as a means of reducing destabilizing rotordynamic forces due to leakage flows in new high speed rocket turbo-pumps. Although swirl brakes have ... -
Experimental Study of Uniform-Shear Flow Past a Rotating Cylinder
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)An experimental study is made of two-dimensional uniform-shear flow (U = Uc + Gy) past a rotating cylinder of diameter D. A water-tunnel, equipped with a shear generator, was constructed. ... -
Prediction of the Flow Around an Airfoil Using a Reynolds Stress Transport Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)A second-moment R eynolds S tress T ransport M odel (RSTM) is used in the present work for computing the flow around a two-dimensional airfoil. An incompressible SIMPLEC code is used, employing ... -
Relationship Between Unsteady Flow, Pressure Fluctuations, and Noise in a Centrifugal Pump—Part B: Effects of Blade-Tongue Interactions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)Maps of pressure distributions computed using PDV data, combined with noise and local pressure measurements, are used for identifying primary sources of noise in a centrifugal pump. In the ... -
Propagation of the Velocity Shear Front in Spin-up From Rest in a Cut-Cone
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)The behavior of the dominant azimuthal velocity field during spin-up from rest of a homogeneous fluid in a cut-cone is investigated. The fundamental mechanism of spin-up process is recapitulated. ...