Journal of Fluids Engineering: Recent submissions
Now showing items 7281-7300 of 9024
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A Combined Analytical and Experimental Approach to the Development of Fluid-Jet Amplifiers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1964)An approach to the development of “pressure-controlled” fluid-jet relays and amplifiers is proposed. The technique, based on experiments of a jet attaching to a flat wall, combines theoretical ... -
The Functional Role of Wing Corrugations in Living Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)Questions concerning the functional role of spanwise wing corrugation in living systems are experimentally investigated. Attention was initially directed to this problem by observation of the ... -
Flow Around Two Elliptic Cylinders in Tandem Arrangement
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)Flow around two elliptic cylinders in tandem arrangement was experimentally investigated through measurements of the surface static pressure distribution and estimations of the flow parameters such ... -
Mean Flow Effects on the Low-Wavenumber Pressure Spectrum on a Flexible Surface
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)The Lighthill theory is extended so that it may be used to determine the flow noise induced by a turbulent boundary layer over a plane homogeneous flexible surface. The influence of the ... -
A Viscous-Inviscid Interaction Procedure—Part 2: Application to Turbulent Flow Over a Rearward-Facing Step
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)The viscous-inviscid interaction numerical procedure described in Part 1 is used to predict steady, two-dimensional turbulent flow over a rearward-facing step. The accuracy of predictions is ... -
Computation of Gas Flowfields in Supersonic Particle Probes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)The results of computations to predict the properties of gas flowfields in supersonic particle probe inlets are presented. In particular, a supersonic gas impinging on a thin walled cylindrical ... -
Mean Flow Characteristics of a Turbulent Offset Jet
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)A detailed study of the mean flow characteristics of a turbulent offset jet is presented. The flow is characterized by a longitudinal variation of curvature, skewed impingement onto a flat ... -
The Use of the Dye-Layer Technique for Unsteady Flow Visualization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)The unsteady flow around three-dimensional lifting surfaces undergoing a harmonic pitching motion was studied in a towing tank using the dye-layer technique. Different color fluorescent dyes were ... -
Measurements of Confined, Coaxial Jet Mixing With Pressure Gradient
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)The mixing of a subsonic confined air jet with a coaxial secondary air stream is investigated experimentally. This work differs from previous studies in that emphasis is placed on the effects ... -
Impulsively Started Steady Flow About Rectangular Prisms: Experiments and Discrete Vortex Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)Impulsively started steady flow about sharp-edged rectangular prisms has been investigated experimentally and numerically. The forces acting on the bodies have been determined at a Reynolds number ... -
Measurements of Turbulence Generated by 60 Percent Solid Perforated Plates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)Combustion experiments simulating spark-ignition engine conditions require generation and measurement of high intensity, rapidly decaying turbulence in a combustion test cell. Turbulence is generated ... -
Interaction Between Impeller and Volute of Pumps at Off-Design Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)In a centrifugal pump of volute type, the respective characteristics of the impeller and the volute are such that at only one operating point can the flow parameters be constant along the ... -
Prediction of Incompressible Flow in Labyrinth Seals
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)A new approach was developed and tested for alleviating the substantial convergence difficulty which results from implementation of the QUICK differencing scheme into a TEACH-type computer code. ... -
A Viscous-Inviscid Interaction Procedure—Part 1: Method for Computing Two-Dimensional Incompressible Separated Channel Flows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)A viscous-inviscid interaction scheme has been developed for computing steady incompressible laminar and turbulent flows in two-dimensional duct expansions. The viscous flow solutions are obtained ... -
Computation of the Critical Flow Function, Pressure Ratio, and Temperature Ratio for Real Air
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1964)A method of computing the critical flow function, critical pressure ratio, and critical temperature ratio is presented. Use is made of the NBS Circular 564 tabulated data of the speed of ... -
A Two-Dimensional Analysis of Unsteady Torque on Mixed Flow Impellers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)A new method is given for the analysis of unsteady flows through mixed flow impellers under an assumption of a two-dimensional flow in a representative flow surface of revolution. The flow ... -
The Effects of Turbulence Stimulators on Cavitation Inception of Axisymmetric Headforms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)Cavitation inception observations were made in the DTNSRDC 36-inch water tunnel on three axisymmetric headforms with and without various turbulence stimulators installed. Direct transition measurements, ... -
Computational Study of Turbulent Gas-Particle Flow in a Venturi
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)A “two-fluid” model has been applied to predict turbulent dilute gas-particle flow through a Venturi tube. Bulk motion of particles is considered as a secondary fluid flow which exchanges mass ... -
Erratum: “On Some Analytical Methods for the Analysis of Gas-Lubricated Journal Bearings” (Journal of Basic Engineering, 1963, 85, pp. 475–477)
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The Influence of Pressure Gradient on Desinent Cavitation From Isolated Surface Protrusions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)An experimental investigation was conducted to study the desinent cavitation characteristics of various sizes of two-dimensional triangular and circular arc protrusions in a turbulent boundary layer ...