An ultrasonic guided wave system for pipe inspection is proposed. Using guided wave experience to date on a variety of different tubing problems, feasibility experiments have already been conducted on piping under insulation in both a laboratory and chemical processing facility field environment. Several guided wave techniques are introduced, one using a broad banded variable angle beam transdu...

The aim of this paper is to study a finite element numerical approximation of steady flows of an incompressible viscoelastic Oldroyd-B fluid in curved pipes of arbitrary cross-section and curvature ratio. Using rectangular toroidal coordinates, existence and uniqueness of approximated solutions are proved as well as a priori error estimates, under a natural restriction on the pipe curvature ratio.

This paper is concerned with the application of finite element methods to obtain solutions for steady fully developed generalized Newtonian flows in a curved pipe of circular cross-section and arbitrary curvature ratio, under a given axial pressure gradient. c © 2007 Published by Elsevier Ltd

Numerical solution has been obtained of the equations of motion of a viscous incompressible fluid in a curved annular conduit with circular cross-section. These equations are approximated by finite-difference equations which are of the second-order accuracy with respect to the grid sizes. The computed results are presented for the range 96 D 8000 , where D is the Dean number of the flow and for...