In the present work, the effect of fluid’s elasticity was investigated on the hydrodynamic instability of Blasius flow. To determine the critical Reynolds number as a function of the elasticity number, a two-dimensional linear temporal stability analysis was invoked. The viscoelastic fluid is assumed to obey the Walters’ B fluid model for which base flow velocity profiles were fortunately avail...

Computational fluid dynamics is implemented to investigate the influence of the wheel contact patch on the global car aerodynamics. Two main aspects of the problem are the contact step and patch shape. Three important parameters: step height, cut angle, and tire tread shape are taken into consideration. For validations of the numerical results, the experimental data are also considered. The obt...

Gas-condensate reservoirs contain hydrocarbon fluids with characteristics between oil and gas reservoirs and a high gas-liquid ratio. Due to the large gas-liquid ratio, wellhead choke calculations using the empirical equations such as Gilbert may contain considerable error. In this study, using drill stem test (DST) data of a gas-condensate reservoir, coefficients of Gilbert equation was modifi...

abstract rockfill dams are a type of hydraulic control structures used to protect river bed in cases where a considerable reservoir volume is available behind these structures; it could mitigate the floods and provide a gradual depletion of incoming volume of water so that the discharge passing downstream is decreased. one of the main issues on utilizing rockfill dams is to keep its permeabilit...

Flows of dissipative particles driven by the peristaltic motion of a tube are numerically studied. A transition from a slow "unjammed" flow to a fast "jammed" flow is found through the observation of the flow rate at a critical width of the bottleneck of a peristaltic tube. It is also found that the average and fluctuation of the transition time, and the peak value of the second moment of the f...