in this work, the feasibility study for design of a laboratory sample rde which has an annular geometry with diameter of 76 mm and length of 101 mm has been performed. detonation engines are expected to be used as propulsion system in aerospace applications in the future. several types of detonation engines are currently under examination, including the rotating detonation engine (rde). first, ...

The objective of this research is to develop an accurate numerical method to be used in showing the deformation of a liquid fuel droplet in a convective field. To simultaneously solve the internal liquid droplet flow field as well as the external gas phase flow field, a nonstaggered rectangular grid system without any coordinate transformation is used. Transition from the gas field to the liqui...

The objective of this research is to develop an accurate numerical method to be used in showing the deformation of a liquid fuel droplet in a convective field. To simultaneously solve the internal liquid droplet flow field as well as the external gas phase flow field, a nonstaggered rectangular grid system without any coordinate transformation is used. Transition from the gas field to the liqui...

Published data on flow field variation caused by various blade design patterns are scarce. Most designs exhibit significant flow separation and adverse pressure gradients effects that lower mixing efficiency. In view of the design potentials of the CFD methodology, the flow field variations caused by different blade designs could be classified in order to be able to predict the spread of the lo...

*Correspondence: Peiwen Li , Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona, 1130 North Mountain Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA e-mail: [email protected] In this study, a significant number of experimental tests to proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells were conducted to investigate the effect of gas flow fields on fuel cell performance. Graphite plates w...

A theoretical model is developed to predict the time-dependent behaviors of “flow burst” and centrifugal capillary flow in Lab-on-a-CD systems. Enabling the calculation of flow field, flow burst, and flow timing as a function of fluid properties and system specifications, the model is a useful design tool for understanding and controlling flow behaviors in Lab-on-a-CD devices. More importantly,...

in this study digital image correlation (dic) technique combined with a high speed video system was used to predict movement of particles in a water model. comparing with particle-image velocimetry (piv) technique, it provides a low cost alternative approach to visualize flow fields and was successfully employed to predict the movement of particles in a water model at different submergence dept...

An analytical investigation is conducted to study the unsteady free convection heat and mass transfer flow through a non-homogeneous porous medium with variable permeability bounded by an infinite porous vertical plate in slip flow regime while taking into account the thermal radiation, chemical reaction, the Soret number, and temperature gradient dependent heat source. The flow is considered u...

To improve the calculation of the flow properties of an aerospike nozzle, different turbulence models were investigated in this study. The primary shape of the nozzle plug is determined through utilizing an approximate method. The flow field is, then, simulated using the Navier-Stokes equations for compressible flows. The commercial computational fluid dynamics code Fluent is used to simulate t...

The capillary electrophoresis assay described in this study is reproducible, more sensitive and faster than other analytical tests. The samples used in the capillary electrophoresis assay were obtained from brain and the lymphoid system of the animals. The sensitivity of this assay made it possible to test samples from other tissues that contain much less abnormal prion protein than brain sampl...