Image-based Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become a popular tool for the prediction of in vivo flow profiles and hemodynamic wall parameters. Currently, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is most widely used for in vivo geometry acquisition. For superficial arteries such as the carotids and the femoral artery, three-dimensional (3-D) extravascular ultrasound (3-DUS) could be a cost-effect...

Natural ventilation is an important factor in the design of sustainable buildings; it has the potential to improve air quality, while providing thermal comfort at reduced energy costs. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations provide comprehensive information on the internal flow pattern and can be used as a design tool. The present work offers insight of natural ventilation in a fully fu...

Dense Medium Cyclone is a high capacity device that is widely used in coal preparation. It is simple in design but the swirling turbulent flow, the presence of medium and coal with different density and size fraction and the presence of the air-core make the flow pattern in DMCs complex. In this article the flow pattern simulation of DMC is performed with computational fluid dynamics and Fluent...

Abstract In this work, the role of appropriate mixing for mercaptan removal from Kerosene using caustic soda has been investigated in the pilot scale. Static mixer at different condition has been used as a passive mixing tool to achieve proper mixing and consequently high performance of mercaptan removal. Two lengths of static mixer including 20 and 40 cm as well as two pitches 1 and 3 m...

Background Efficient right ventricular (RV) pumping function requires optimal blood flow dynamics. In the left ventricle (LV), diastolic vortex ring formation distal to the mitral valve (MV) has been reported to be an important mechanism for such blood flow optimization. Earlier work based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations using simplified RV geometry modeling have reported vort...

Flow and dispersion of traffic pollutants in a generic urban neighborhood with avenue-trees were investigated with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). In Part I of this two-part contribution, quality assessment and assurance for CFD simulations in urban and vegetation configurations were addressed,before in Part II flow and dispersion in a generic urban neighborhood with multiple layouts of ave...

i Preface The report deals with development of reduced kinetic mechanisms for ammonia oxidation that can be used for CFD modeling of NO x formation in biomass combustors. A computer code CARM was tested for generation of the reduced mechanisms. Berkeley. We want to thank him for supplying us with the code, as well as helping us to get started. The report firstly describes shortly the general me...

This paper will explore the methods and techniques necessary to perform a more accurate CFD validation of experimental results. The methods and techniques used will be validated against experimental wind tunnel data of a 2D high lift airfoil with a 3D engine performed by Georgia Tech Research Institute. Preliminary results showed that computational methods over predict the lift and drag coeffic...

The early history is presented of the prolific development of CFD methods in the Fluid Dynamics Group (T-3) at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the years from 1958 to the late 1960's. Many of the currently used numerical methods –PIC, MAC, vorticity-stream-function, ICE, ALE methods and the k-ε method for turbulence– originated during this time. The rest of the paper summarizes the current res...

This work presents a computational study of flow behaviour in a bubbling fluidized bed polymerization reactor. The model is developed by using the commercial CFD code Fluent 6.3. The model is based on an Eulerian description of the gas and the particle phase. The effect of distributor shape on fluidization is analyzed using the inbuilt Gidaspow and Syamlal-O’brien Drag Model. The computational ...