Our goal is to model and analyze a stationary fluid flow through the junction of two pipes in the gravity field. Inside ’vertical’ pipe there is a heavy piston which can freely move along the pipe. We are interested in the equilibrium position of the piston in dependence on geometry of junction. Fluid is modeled with the Navier-Stokes equations and the piston is modeled as a rigid body. We form...

cylinder tumble flows of a single cylinder two-valve engine under motoring conditions with two pentroof pistons having different cavities at an engine speed of 1000 rev/min., during suction and compression strokes using particle image velocimetry (PIV). The two-dimensional velocity vector fields are analyzed on a vertical plane passing through the axis of the cylinder. To quantify the tumble fl...

This paper presents a novel device for pumping a column of liquid in a microchannel integrated on a digital microfluidic (DMF) platform. The electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) method is used to frequently actuate a droplet (referred to as the piston droplet) on an array of electrodes. A column of liquid (referred to as the pumped droplet) is pumped in a microfluidic channel by the pressure com...

In contrast to the conventional rotational compressors, the linear compressor is driven by a linear motor directly coupled with a piston. So the performance of the linear compressor is strongly dependent on the characteristics of the linear motor. In addition to high efficiency, the parameters of a linear motor should be nearly constant regardless of the amount of the current flow and position ...

We study the Casimir piston for massless scalar fields obeying Dirichlet boundary conditions in a three dimensional cavity with sides of arbitrary lengths a, b and c where a is the plate separation. We obtain an exact expression for the Casimir force on the piston valid for any values of the three lengths. As in the electromagnetic case with perfect conductor conditions, we find that the Casimi...

Reliability assessment of reciprocating equipment piston rod leads to nonlinear elastic-plastic deformation analysis of rod with initial imperfection under axial dynamic load. In this paper a new and effective model and analytical simulation method are presented to evaluate dynamic deformation and elastic-plastic stress of reciprocating machine piston rod. This new method has capability to acco...

I C engines are the largest energy converting units for the mobile application across the globe and millions of litres of oil is converted into mechanical energy using these engines every day. It has been recognized that a large amount of energy is lost in the friction between Piston ring – Cylinder assembly. Hence this area has been the interest of research for decades. Oil film thickness form...

The major problems encountered in a reciprocating compressor are because of the valve failure .The other problem of leakage past the piston because of the worn out piston rings has also been placed in the reciprocating compressor. Pressure pulsations generated inside the piping of a reciprocating compressor may be taken as one of the tool for diagnosing the nature of fault inside the compressor...

A model of a flat triple pendulum with obstacles imposed on its position is used for the modelling of a piston-connecting rod-crankshaft system of a mono-cylinder four-stroke combustion engine. The introduced selfexcited system can be only treated as the first step in more advanced modelling of real processes, but some examples of numerical simulations exhibit well known six stages of the pisto...