This study deals with the use of optimization algorithms to determine efficient parameters of flow control devices. To improve the performance of systems characterized by detached flows and vortex shedding, the use of flow control devices such as oscillatory jets, are intensively studied, using numerical as well as experimental methods. However, the determination of efficient control parameters...

In this paper, the results of flow-control experiments using single dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators to controlflow separation andunsteady vortex shedding froma circular cylinder in crossfloware reported. Thiswork is motivated by the need to reduce landing gear noise for commercial transport aircraft via an effective streamlining created by the actuators. The experiments are perfor...

Unsteady mixed convection heat transfer from a circular cylinder has been investigated in the presence of viscous dissipation. The isothermal horizontal cylinder is placed to the oncoming free stream whose direction is considered in the free convection flow (parallel flow) and opposite to it (contra flow). The system of dimensionless governing equations for unsteady, two-dimensional flow is red...

Two dimensional flow of a non-Newtonian fluid through an asymmetric stenosed artery is analysed under the influence of body acceleration with an external magnetic field on the flow field. The Casson fluid model is considered to characterize the non-Newtonian behaviour of the blood. The flow is assumed to be unsteady, laminar, two-dimensional, asymmetric and of pulsatile nature. The artery wall ...

This paper studies the relationship between unsteady flow features and instantaneous torque and power performance of straight bladed vertical axis wind turbine at variable tip speed ratios. The rotor unsteady flow field simulation was carried out by using computational fluid dynamics method. The flow physics and the principle of changing flow filed acting on torque performance and power perform...

Abstract A towing tank is utilized to investigate the flow field around a two-dimensional submerged foil model operating near free surface. Free surface effects are analyzed for steady and unsteady velocity. The model’s submergence depth angle of attack varied. Tests conducted facing upside-up upside-down. deflection recorded experimental results validate an analytic that deployed predict wake ...

Numerical simulations of the unsteady flow over a low-aspect-ratio, low Reynolds number semi-circular planform wing are performed using Lattice Boltzmann method. The simulations exactly match the flow conditions and the detailed geometry from previous wind-tunnel experiments, including the flow actuators installed internally along the leading edge of the wing. To reproduce the pulsed-blowing ac...

The purpose of this work is to examine the flow of a binary mixture including chemically inert incompressible Newtonian fluids in a duct of semicircular cross-section. Such a flow model has great significance not only of its own theoretical interest, but also for application to various engineering processes. The governing equations have been solved analytically using the finite Fourier sine and...

This paper presents new, efficient methods for computing finite-time Lyapunov exponent (FTLE) fields in unsteady flows. The methods approximate the particle flow map to eliminate redundant particle integrations in neighboring flow map calculations. Two classes of flow map approximations are investigated based on composition of intermediate flow maps; unidirectional approximation constructs a ti...

Simulation of a process and analysis of its resulting data in both dynamic and steady-state conditions are fundamental steps in understanding the process in order to design and efficient control of system as well as implementing operational cost reduction scheme. In the present paper, steady and unsteady state simulation of Amir Kabir1, 3 butadiene purification units has been done by using Aspe...