1 Department of Experimental Physics, Saarland University, D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany. [email protected] 2 Present address: Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes SA 5095, Australia. 3 School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK. 4 Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochast...

In this paper a three-dimensional mathematical model to simulate the hydrodynamic behavior of a tethered underwater robot system is proposed. The fluid motion around the robot is governed by mass and momentum conservation equations (Navier-Stokes equations). These highly nonlinear differential equations are solved numerically with the CFD code Fluent. From the numerical solution we obtain the h...

Cold accretion disks such as those in star-forming systems, quiescent cataclysmic variables, and some active galactic nuclei, are expected to have neutral gas which does not couple well to magnetic fields. The turbulent viscosity in such disks must be hydrodynamic in origin, not magnetohydrodynamic. We investigate the growth of hydrodynamic perturbations in a linear shear flow sandwiched betwee...

this paper presents the application of the generalized differential quadrature (gdq) method for the hydrodynamic analysis of circular and noncircular, two lobe and three lobe, journal bearings. gdq is a simple, efficient, high-order numerical technique and it uses the information on all grid points to approach the derivatives of the unknown function. the effectiveness of the solution technique ...

Specific and sensitive operation of circuit breakers makes an individual position for them in power networks. Circuit breakers are at the central gravity of variations and execution operations. Therefore, an optimum operation is the main reason to investigate about new gases to be used in MV and HV circuit breakers instead of SF6. The arc process has enormous complexity because of hydrodynamic ...

Recent development of a hydrodynamic model is discussed by putting an emphasis on realistic treatment of the early and late stages in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The model, which incorporates a hydrodynamic description of the quark-gluon plasma with a kinetic approach of hadron cascades, is applied to analysis of elliptic flow data at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider energy. It is pre...

On the basis of the current knowledge of the structure and dimensions of myosin and its parts, we analyze available data on hydrodynamic properties (translational diffusion, rotational diffusion, and intrinsic viscosity) for comparison with values calculated for models with varying geometry. Special attention is paid to detecting flexibility effects in those properties. After obtaining a plausi...

A hydrodynamic permeability of membranes built up by porous cylindrical or spherical particles with impermeable core is investigated. Different versions of a cell method are used to calculate the hydrodynamic permeability of the membranes. Four known boundary conditions, namely, Happel’s, Kuwabara’s, Kvashnin’s and Cunningham/Mehta-Morse’s, are considered on the outer surface of the cell. Compa...

Fragility functions, as new measures for estimating structural damage and casualties due to tsunami attack, are developed by an integrated approach using numerical modeling of tsunami inundation and GIS analysis of post-tsunami survey data of the 2004 Sumatra– Andaman earthquake tsunami disaster, obtained from Banda Aceh, Indonesia. The fragility functions are expressed as the damage probabilit...

We consider a dilute gas of hard spheres in dimension d> or =2 that upon collision either annihilate with probability p or undergo an elastic scattering with probability 1-p . For such a system neither mass, momentum, nor kinetic energy is a conserved quantity. We establish the hydrodynamic equations from the Boltzmann equation description. Within the Chapman-Enskog scheme, we determine the tra...