Heat transfer in a partially-filled, rotating inclined pipe with water flowing through it is experimentally investigated. The test section is a 1000 mm long stainless steel pipe with 32.8 mm inner diameter and 1.1 mm wall thickness. The outer wall is painted black to improve its emissivity. The outer wall temperature distribution is captured using ...
We report the development of an in-house fluid-structure interaction solver and its application to vortex-induced vibration (VIV) of an elastically mounted cylinder in the presence of thermal buoyancy. The flow solver utilizes a sharp interface immersed boundary method, and in the present work, we extend it to account for the thermal buoyancy using...
Natural convection of air in an inclined differentially heated open cubic cavity is studied. From the literature, it can be seen that there is no definite relationship between the Nusselt numbers obtained for square and cubic cavities for different Rayleigh numbers (Ra) and cavity inclinations. For some combinations of Ra and cavity inclinations, t...
The influence of Reynolds number and blockage ratio on the vortex dynamics of a trapezoidal bluff body placed inside a circular pipe is studied experimentally and numerically. Lowaspect ratio, high blockage ratio, curved end conditions (junction of pipe and bluff body), axisymmetric upstream flow with shear and turbulence are some of the intrinsic ...
The mixing process of binary granular systems in a short rotating drum was investigated by performing discrete element simulations. The drum was asymmetrically operated with the left end wall being fixed and the right one rotated with the side wall. The modeled granular materials were made of particles with same size and density but different color...
A new transform approach for solving mixed boundary value problems for the biharmonic equation in simply and multiply connected circular domains is presented. This work is a sequel to Crowdy (2015, IMA J. Appl. Math., 80, 1902–1931) where new transform techniques were developed for boundary value problems for Laplace’s equation in circular domains....
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We investigate the effect of nonlinearities on the frequency response of a round, incompressible jet. Experiments show that axisymmetric structures dominate the response of forced and unforced jets. In contrast, linear stability and frequency response analyses predict the asymmetric mode (m=1) to be locally more unstable and globally more amplified...
A method is presented for deriving reduced models for fluid flows over highly curved substrates with wider applicability and accuracy than existing models in the literature. This is done by reducing the Navier--Stokes equations to a novel system of boundary layer like equations in a general geometric setting. This is accomplished using a new, relax...
