Recent enhancements to the development of CFD-based unsteady aerodynamic and aeroelastic reduced-order models (ROMs) are presented. These enhancements include the simultaneous application of structural modes as CFD input, static aeroelastic analysis using a ROM, and matched-point solutions using a ROM. The simultaneous application of structural modes as CFD input enables the computation of the ...

We are motivated to compute delicate chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes. Such processes are used to deposit thin films of metallic or ceramic materials, such as SiC or a mixture of SiC and TiC. For practical simulations and for studying the characteristics in the deposition area, we have to deal with delicate multiscale models. We propose a multiscale model based on two different softwar...

In this paper, design, fabrication and coupled multifield analysis of hollow out-of-plane silicon microneedle array with piezoelectrically actuated microfluidic device for transdermal drug delivery (TDD) applications is presented. The fabrication process of silicon microneedle array is first done by series of combined isotropic and anisotropic etching processes using inductively coupled plasma ...

Turbine is the most critical component in hydropower plants because it affects the cost as well as overall performance of the plant. Hence, for the cost effective design of any hydropower project, it is very important to predict the hydraulic behavior and efficiency of hydro turbines before they are put in actual use. Experimental approach of predicting the performance of hydro turbine is costl...

This work initially focuses on developing a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of an industrialscale steam methane reforming reactor (reforming tube) used to produce hydrogen. Subsequently, we design and evaluate three different feedback control schemes to drive the area-weighted average hydrogen mole fraction measured at the reforming tube outlet ( x̄H outlet 2 ) to a desired set-point va...

Dust lift-off from conveyors forms a significant environmental and operational problem for operators in the mining, power generation and process industries. One means of reducing dust lift-off is to provide airflow deflectors or other aerodynamic modifications to the conveyor. A CFD model has been developed to take into account the effect of wind direction, velocity and conveyor guarding on the...

Plate fin-tube heat exchangers are used extensively in heating, ventilating, and air conditioning, process engineering, and refrigeration systems. They have a high degree of surface compactness. Substantial heat transfer enhancement is obtained as a result of the periodic starting and development of boundary layers over interrupted channels formed by the fins and their dissipation in the fin wa...

Increased construction activity and associated receiving water concerns in the Greater Toronto Area has prompted this study to advance our knowledge on cohesive sediment transport processes in rivers and lake environments. Flow characteristics in a rotating circular flume at the National Water Research Institute (NWRI), Burlington, Ontario were studied using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD)...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a promising tool for the development of comprehensive models of gas-phase polymerization in fluidized bed reactors. However, CFD models of gas-solids flow in fluidized beds are still under development and validation of these models on relatively simple test cases is essential if we hope to achieve reliable predictions of the complex phenomena associated wit...

The supersonic aerodynamic coefficient of a sphere that represents a broken piece of structure under explosion was obtained by using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).The computer that was used in this study was self-made cluster type parallel machine and available maximum number of CPU was 128. The CFD software named CFD++ was used in this study. CFD++ is general purpose CFD software to solve...