Vegetation growing on the surface of a streambank has been shown to alter the shear stresses applied to the boundary, but basic questions remain regarding the influence of vegetation and streambank configurations on near-bank hydraulics. In the present study, Froudescaled flume experiments were used to investigate how changes in vegetation density (ratio of frontal area to channel area, includi...

Rayleigh-Bernard convection offers a unique flow situation in which buoyancy-generated turbulence can be studied in isolation, free of the complicating influence of shear production of turbulence. The objective of this paper is to examine and model important aspects of buoyancy-generated turbulence using direct numerical simulation (DNS) data of Rayleigh-Bernard convection. In particular, we ex...

Incompressible, turbulent flow past a circular cylinder is computationally investigated by means of Reynolds Averaged Numerical Simulations. Problems in using the wall-functions approach for modeling the near-wall turbulence are demonstrated. As the main turbulence model, the Shear Stress Transport model is employed, by resolving the nearwall layer. A wide range of Reynolds numbers is investiga...

Rayleigh-Bernard convection offers a unique flow situation in which buoyancy-generated turbulence can be studied in isolation, free of the complicating influence of shear production of turbulence. The objective of this paper is to examine and model important aspects of buoyancy-generated turbulence using direct numerical simulation (DNS) data of Rayleigh-Bernard convection. In particular, we ex...

Reynolds stress budgets for both Couette and boundary layer flows are evaluated and presented. Data are taken from direct numerical simulations of rotating and non-rotating plane turbulent Couette flow and turbulent boundary layer with and without adverse pressure gradient. Comparison of the total shear stress for the two flows suggests that the Couette case may be regarded as the high Reynolds...

We present a theoretical analysis of fluid flow and particle interactions in the cone-plate viscometer under conditions typically applied in biological studies. The analysis demonstrates that at higher shear rates, besides linear primary flow in the rotational direction, prominent non-linear secondary flow causes additional fluid circulation in the radial direction. Two parameters, the cone ang...

the research was conducted in order to determine the bending stress, young’s modulus, shearing stress, and shearing energy of safflower stalk as a function of moisture content and stalk region. the bending forces were measured at different moisture contents and the bending stress and the young’s modulus were calculated from these data. for measuring the shear forces, the stalk specimens were se...

Laminar Newtonian flow through a 2-dimensional channel with one sinusoidal wall is studied for wavelengths comparable to, or much larger than, the channel height. In the long wave limit which is solved analytically, the pressure is in phase with the wave slope and the shear stress is in phase with the wave height. As the wavelength is reduced, the shear stress maximum moves upstream of the peak...

The present paper deals with a two-layered mathematical model for blood flow through stenotic tube in porous medium under the effect of an applied magnetic field. In this mathematical model, the blood is considered as Newtonian fluid of variable viscosity in the central region and plasma fluid which is considered as Newtonian fluid of constant viscosity in the peripheral region of the stenotic ...

Knowledge of suspension rheology can help in the prediction of its behavior under various flow conditions. Considerable theoretical effort has been made to model the macroscopic properties of suspensions of rigid particles in a Newtonian fluid, but for the most part it has been limited to zero particle Reynolds number. In this paper we investigate the effect of finite particle Reynolds number o...