In shallow turbulent flows such as floods and tsunami vertical mixing tends to smooth out the flow characteristics in cross-sectional direction. The evolution of the average cross-flow characteristics presents considerable interest. We model such flows using the k-ω model of turbulence in the framework of the centre manifold theory. We tested the approach on an artificial diffusion problem for ...

Extensive experimentation was performed to obtain flow boiling critical heat flux data in single stainless steel microtubes with diameters from 0.286 to 0.700 mm over a wide range of mass fluxes, inlet subcoolings, and exit pressures for two different working fluids (water and R-123). The effect of different operating parameters – mass flux, inlet subcooling, exit quality, heated length and dia...

The work on this theme will comprise a boundary layer analysis in channel flow. Here we will be looking at both the laminar and turbulent case of incompressible flow within the presence of shear stress and vorticity. This study for both cases is a very important concept to understand for boundary layers in channel flows. To accomplish this study, we used the Finite Element Method and Finite Vol...

The flow around a circular arc is governed by the effect of sharp leading edge and arc's curvature. There range incidences where leading-edge separation bubble (LESB) formed on convex side arc, reattached boundary layer separates further downstream. Akin to foils cylinders, for increasing values Reynolds number, turns from laminar turbulent resulting in step change forces, here termed force cri...

A random flow generation (RFG) algorithm for a previously established large eddy simulation (LES) code is successfully incorporated into a finite element fluid flow solver to generate the required inflow/initial turbulence boundary conditions for the LES computations of viscous incompressible turbulent flow over a nominally twodimensional circular cylinder at Reynolds number of 140,000. The eff...

1. Introduction A great variety of flows with importance to practical engineering applications are inherently unsteady and virtually all of the Newtonian fluid flows in nature are turbulent. Therefore, it is natural and unavoidable to deal with unsteady turbulent flows when Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques are applied to engineering design and industrial use. CFD for general fluid ...

The primary objective of this research is to develop a deploy-and-forget energy harvesting device for use in low-velocity, highly turbulent fluid flow environments i.e. streams or ventilation systems. The work presented here focuses on a novel, lightweight, highly robust, energy harvester design referred to as piezoelectric grass. This biologically inspired design consists of an array of cantil...