Journal of Fluids Engineering: Recent submissions
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Instability of a Moving Cylindrical Liquid Sheet
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)The instability of a cylindrical liquid sheet of finite thickness moving with a uniform velocity in still air is studied theoretically with the aim of throwing light on the break-up of films ... -
Numerical Solution of Two-Dimensional Turbulent Separated Flows Using a Reynolds Stress Closure Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)Turbulent boundary layer separation is studied using the turbulence closure model suggested by Mellor and Yamada. An explicit central finite-differencing scheme is used to solve the governing ... -
The Flow Pattern in a Scalene Triangular Duct Having Two Rounded Corners
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)Experiments were carried out to determine the pressure drop characteristics and mean velocity distributions in a scalene triangualr duct having two rounded corners. The present data for friction ... -
Experimental Measurement of the Magnus Force on a Rotating Sphere at Low Reynolds Numbers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)The Magnus force on a rotating sphere at low Reynolds numbers was obtained from trajectories of the sphere which impinged on an inclined plate and bounced. An empirical expression for the ... -
Flow in an Open Tank With a Free Surface Driven by the Spinning Bottom
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)An investigation is made of flows of a viscous incompressible fluid inside a circular cylindrical tank. The flow is driven by the spinning bottom endwall disk of the tank. Numerical solutions ... -
Experimental Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in a Circular Tube
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)The Rayleigh-Taylor instability of an air-water system has been investigated experimentally. The instability was produced by accelerating a slug of water down a vertical circular tube of 6.25 ... -
Calculation of the Aerodynamic Forces on Automotive Lifting Surfaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)A numerical technique was developed to investigate the performance of automotive lifting surfaces in close proximity to ground. The model is based on the Vortex Lattice Method and includes ... -
Is Laminar Flow in a Cylindrical Container With a Rotating Cover a Batchelor or Stewartson-Type Solution?
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Application of a Reynolds Stress Model to Engine-Like Flow Calculations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)A version of a Reynolds stress turbulence model was adopted and applied for calculating turbulence in internal combustion engine flows. Simultaneously, to improve the numerical accuracy of the ... -
Wall Confinement Effects for Spheres in the Reynolds Number Range of 30–2000
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1984)The paper studies in detail the time history of formation, evolution, and instability of the vortex ring, associated with a family of spheres in the Reynolds number range of 30–2000 and with ... -
Experiments on the Buckling of Thin Fluid Layers Undergoing End-Compression
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1984)This paper reports a series of experiments concerning the buckling of a slender fluid layer in a state of longitudinal compression. The experiments consist of floating a layer of highly viscous ... -
On the Mechanism of Flashing Injection of Initially Subcooled Fuels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1984)The mechanisms responsible for flash-boiling injection were investigated. Using an electromagnetic injector developed for this study, propane, methanol and Indolene were heated and injected into a ... -
A New Technique for Computing Viscous-Inviscid Interactions in Internal Flows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1984)A new viscous-inviscid interaction technique has been developed for computing separated flow in planar diffusers. The method couples a set of integral equations for the boundary layers to a ... -
Theoretical Study on the Flow About Savonius Rotor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1984)A method for the two-dimensional analysis of the separated flow about Savonius rotors is presented. Calculations are performed by combining the singularity method and the discrete vortex method. ... -
A Study of the Measurement of Cavitation Inception Using an Electrostatic Technique
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1984)A new concept for detecting cavitation inception has been studied experimentally. In this exploratory study, cavitation is generated by varying the flow velocity and pressure around a circular ... -
Effect of Dilute Polymer Additives on the Acoustic Cavitation Threshold of Water
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1984)Measurements are presented of the variation of the acoustic cavitation threshold of water with concentration of the polymer additives polyethylene oxide and guar gum. It was found that small ... -
A Re-Evaluation of Schlichting’s Surface Roughness Experiment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1984)A re-evaluation of the skin friction coefficient and equivalent sand roughness data reported by Schlichting in 1936 on fourteen rough surfaces is presented. Several assumptions made during the ... -
Visualization Studies of a Shear Driven Three-Dimensional Recirculating Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1984)A facility has been constructed to study shear-driven, recirculating flows. In this particular study, the circulation cell structure in the lid-driven cavity is studied as a function of the ... -
Discussion: “Appraisal of Universal Wake Numbers From Data for Roughened Circular Cylinders” (Buresti, G., 1983, ASME J. Fluids Eng., 105, pp. 464–468)
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Flow Structure and Pressure Loss for Two Phase Flow in Return Bends
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1984)Experimental observations of flow structure and pressure loss have been made for froth flow within 180 deg circular pipe bends. Within the bend the distributions of pressure observed reflected ...