The paper presents a new two-dimensional computational approach and results for laminar/laminar internal condensing flows. Accurate numerical solutions of the full governing equations are presented for steady and unsteady film condensation flows on a sidewall inside a vertical channel. It is found that exit conditions and noise sensitivity are important. Even for stable steady solutions obtaine...

Wall-bounded flows experience a transition to turbulence characterized by the coexistence of laminar and turbulent domains in some range of Reynolds number R, the natural control parameter. This transitional regime takes place between an upper threshold Rt above which turbulence is uniform (featureless) and a lower threshold Rg below which any form of turbulence decays, possibly at the end of o...

The paper describes the implementation details and validation results for an agglomeration multigrid procedure developed in the context of hybrid, unstructured grid solutions of aerodynamic flows. The procedure is applied to the solution of 2-D, laminar viscous flows of aerospace interest. The governing equations are discretized with an unstructured grid finite volume method which is capable of...

Recently, version 3.0a of the software package FEMLAB for solving multiphysics partial differential equations was released. In the present project we compared its performance with the previous release 2.3 and the package Fluent 6.1 in stationary laminar flow benchmark problems in two and three dimensions. It turns out that the new version is an essential improvement over the old version. It is ...

We investigate the type I modes of instability within the compressible boundary-layer flow over a rotating cone, defined by general half angle ψ. The work extends previous studies into the compressible rotatingdisk flow (ψ = 90o) and incompressible rotating-cone flows. Generalised compressible von Kármán equations are established and solved numerically to give the laminar-flow profiles. We then...

In this work, we consider the feedback control of flows within the vertical Bridgman crystal growth process. We investigate the use of crucible rotation, via feedback control algorithms, in suppressing oscillatory flows in two prototypical vertical Bridgman crystal growth configurations—a laminar flow regime driven by a time-oscillatory furnace disturbance and a time-varying regime driven by st...

The rate of viscous energy dissipation in a shear layer of incompressible Newtonian fluid with injection and suction is studied by means of exact solutions, nonlinear and linearized stability theory, and rigorous upper bounds. The injection and suction rates are maintained constant and equal and this leads to solutions with constant throughput. For strong enough suction, expressed in terms of t...

Arterial stenosis, for example Atherosclerosis, is one of the most serious forms of arterial disease in the formation of which hemodynamic factors play a significant role. In the present study, a 3-D rigid carotid artery with axisymmetric stenosis with 75% reduction in cross-sectional area is considered. Laminar blood flow is assumed to have both Newtonian and non-Newtonian behavior (generalize...