Journal of Fluids Engineering: Recent submissions
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Strain-Cycle Fatigue of 70-30 Copper Nickel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1966)Three sets of strain-cycled fatigue tests have been conducted at three laboratories on wrought 70-30 Cu-Ni. The data reported herein provide an unnotched fatigue-failure curve of this material ... -
Perspective: Some Research Needs in Convective Heat Transfer for Industry
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A Small Wind Tunnel Significantly Improved by a Multi-Purpose, Two-Flexible-Wall Test Section
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)A small open-return wind tunnel has been renovated to include a longer test section with a flexible roof and floor and improved entrance flow quality. The flexible-wall test section allows ... -
A Study of Blast Effects Inside an Enclosure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)A study of blast effects inside an enclosure was performed for a 1-lb C4 charge placed at the center of a rectangular bunker. The prediction based on the Euler equations shows good agreement ... -
Interpreting Orthogonal Triple-Wire Data From Very High Turbulence Flows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)For turbulence intensities of up to 30 percent, an orthogonal triple-wire probe can be used to make accurate measurements of the instantaneous velocity vector. Above this limit difficulties arise ... -
Perspective: A Method for Uniform Reporting of Grid Refinement Studies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)This paper proposes the use of a Grid Convergence Index (GCI) for the uniform reporting of grid refinement studies in Computational Fluid Dynamics. The method provides an objective asymptotic ... -
Response of Two-Dimensional Separation to Three-Dimensional Disturbances
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)The present study investigates the development and structure of three-dimensionality due to a three-dimensional velocity perturbation applied to the inlet of an unsteady two-dimensional separation ... -
A Correction Formula for Wall Effects on Unsteady Forces of Two-Dimensional Bluff Bodies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)In wind tunnel studies on the flow around bluff bodies accompanying a large separated wake, the walls of the test section severely effect the flow characteristics around them. Proposed in this ... -
On the Unsteady and Turbulent Characteristics of the Three-Dimensional Shear-Driven Cavity Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)The three-dimensional shear-driven cavity flow is numerically investigated at Reynolds numbers of 5000 and 10000. This investigation focuses on the unsteadiness and turbulent characteristics of the ... -
Measurements of the Turbulence Structure Downstream of a Tube Bundle at High Reynolds Numbers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)Mean and turbulent velocity profiles are measured in natural gas at a static pressure of approximately 5200 kPa and a Reynolds number of around 7 × 106 . These measurements are obtained ... -
Spin-Up From Rest of a Two-Layer Liquid in a Cylinder
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)A numerical and analytical study is made of spin-up from rest of a two-layer liquid in a rapidly rotating cylinder. The overall system Ekman number is small. The density of the top layer ... -
Turbulent Diffusivity for Momentum Transfer in Concentric Annuli
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Computational Study of Disk Driven Rotating Flow in a Cylindrical Enclosure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)The problem of steady laminar flow in a stationary cylinder driven by a rotating disk at the top was studied numerically. Three governing equations in cylindrical coordinates were solved by ... -
Flow of Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids in a Concentric Annulus With Rotation of the Inner Cylinder
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)Mean velocity and the corresponding Reynolds shear stresses of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids have been measured in a fully developed concentric flow with a diameter ratio of 0.5 and at a ... -
A New Correlation for Pressure Drop in Arrays of Rectangular Blocks in Air-Cooled Electronic Units
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)An experimental work is carried out to investigate the pressure drop and to visualize the flow field in the entrance region of an array of rectangular modules attached to the lower wall of ... -
Detailed Measurements of Vertical Annular Two-Phase Flow—Part I: Drop Velocities and Sizes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)Phase anemometry and laser diffraction techniques have been employed to measure drop sizes in annular two-phase flow. The former technique also provides drop velocities. When converted to the ... -
Ventilated Flow Between Corotating Disks With Large Obstructions in a Fixed Cylindrical Enclosure (Data Bank Contribution)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)Time-resolved laser-Doppler velocimeter measurements of the circumferential velocity component were obtained for the flow between the center pair of four disks of common radius R2 corotating at ... -
Discrete Vortex Simulation of Pulsating Flow Behind a Normal Plate
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)A numerical study is made of the separated flow behind a flat plate. The plate is placed normal to the direction of the approach flow. The oncoming freestream velocity contains a pulsating ... -
Detailed Measurements of Vertical Annular Two-Phase Flow—Part II: Gas Core Turbulence
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)Laser anemometry techniques have been employed to measure gas velocities in annular two-phase flow. Mean velocities and Reynold’s stresses in the gas appear to be similar to those in corresponding ... -
Performance Analysis of Viscous Flow Computations on Various Parallel Architectures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1994)A study on the performance of parallel viscous flow computations on various parallel architectures is presented. An implicit computational fluid dynamics code was utilized to solve the axisymmetric ...