Date The final copy of this thesis has been examined by the signatories, and we Find that both the content and the form meet acceptable presentation standards Of scholarly work in the above mentioned discipline. Airflow through an aggressive, constant pressure gradient, flat-bottomed 2D diffuser is simulated with the compressible version of the stabilized, implicit finite element code PHASTA. T...

We report on combined velocity and unsteady pressure measurements obtained an radial compressor with vaneless diffuser asymmetric volute. Time-resolved PIV recordings were acquired at 26 kHz both upstream of the impeller as well within diffusor several rotation speeds clean conditions prior to onset instabilities rotor. The data was a high-repetition rate, double-pulse laser system consisting t...

We discuss the successful transport of jurkat cells and 5D10 hybridoma cells using a reciprocating micropump with nozzle-diffuser elements. The effect of the pumping action on cell viability and proliferation, as well as on the damaging of cellular membranes is quantified using four types of well-established biological tests: a trypan blue solution, the tetrazolium salt WST-1 reagent, the LDH c...

Abstract The identification of stall inception mechanisms and stability-limiting components in a centrifugal compressor is required for the development effective surge suppression approaches. Part I this two-part paper investigates signature at subsonic, transonic, supersonic inlet tip conditions, II considers relationship with static pressure characteristics, as well impeller leading edge rela...

The results from a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study on the effect of air supply diffuser type and exhaust location in a typical animal research laboratory are presented. The results show that low-level exhausts produce higher temperatures in the room and cages, but the best in-cage ventilation (lowest CO 2 concentrations) compared with ceiling or high-level exhausts. Further, the study ...

By using a complex phase screen model for a diffuser located at the transmitter, analytic expressions are developed for the scintillation index of a lowest order Gaussian-beam wave in the pupil plane of the receiver in weak and strong atmospheric conditions. The effect of partial coherence on the scintillation index is analyzed as a function of the propagation distance and the correlation lengt...

A computational study was performed to explore the aerodynamic performance of a streamline-traced, externalcompression inlet designed for Mach 1.664 at off-design conditions of freestream Mach number, angle-of-attack, and angle-of-sideslip. Serious degradation of the inlet performance occurred for negative angles-of-attack and angles-of-sideslip greater than 3 degrees. At low subsonic speeds, t...