This work gives an overview of the theoretical and experimental achievements of mechatronics applied to fluid film bearings. Compressible and uncompressible fluids are addressed. Rigid and elastic (deformable) bearing profiles are investigated. Hydraulic, pneumatic, magnetic and piezoelectric actuators are used. The ideas of combining control techniques, informatics with hydrodynamic, thermo-hy...

The end-use application of most macromolecules is determined not only by their chemical identity but also, and sometimes more importantly, by the distributions and sequences of key physical and physicochemical parameters. The ability to determine these distributions is gained through separation science, by enlisting the aid of a large number of separation methods in combination with spectroscop...

A multi–temperature hydrodynamic limit of kinetic equations is employed for the analysis of the steady shock problem in a binary mixture. Numerical results for varying parameters indicate possible occurrence of either smooth profiles or of weak solutions with one or two discontinuities.

A wave-packet ansatz is used to model noise generation by organized, large-scale structures. The spectrum of the acoustic field is expressed in terms of two-point space-time correlations of hydrodynamic pressure on a conical surface surrounding the jet plume. The surface is sufficiently near the turbulent flow region to be dominated by hydrodynamic disturbances, yet sufficiently far that the wa...

The dynamic properties such as time dependent pressure loading, speed, free stream velocity, and local acceleration of the hydrofoil determine the instantaneous deformation of the hydrofoil, which has effect on the propulsive characteristics of the aquatic animal. A potential flow analysis is done on the flexible hydrofoil, to evaluate the both inertial and elastic effects on propulsive charact...

the aim of this paper is to develop a systematic method to analyze the effects of forming parameters on the quality of part formability and determine the optimal combination of the forming parameters for the sheet hydroforming process. in this paper, the effects of four important process parameters namely fluid pressure, friction coefficient at blank/punch interface, gap between die rim block a...

objective(s):iron oxide nanoparticles have found prevalent applications in various fields including drug delivery, cell separation and as contrast agents. super paramagnetic iron oxide (spio) nanoparticles allow researchers and clinicians to enhance the tissue contrast of an area of interest by increasing the relaxation rate of water. in this study, we evaluate the dependency of hydrodynamic si...

Introduction. Whitham's averaged equations [1] for a nonlinear evolution system describe slow modulations of parameters on a family of periodic traveling wave solutions (or on families of multiphase quasiperiodic solutions, which are so far knows to exist only for integrable equations) and are a system of hydrodynamic type [2, 3], that is, of the form

The algorithm for Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD), as modified by Español and Warren, is used as a starting point for proving an H-theorem for the free energy and deriving hydrodynamic equations. Equilibrium and transport properties of the DPD fluid are explicitly calculated in terms of the system parameters for the continuous time version of the model.

We consider coupled models for particulate flows, where the disperse phase is made of particles subject to size variations. We are thus led to kinetic equations with coagulation and breakup operators, coupled to fluid mechanics equations. We discuss the existence and stability of stationary solutions. We also derive macroscopic models through asymptotic hydrodynamic regimes, once relevant scali...