Pollution reduction in the Conasauga River is a high priority for Georgia due to the remaining biological diversity of the Conasauga. Home to 76 native species of fish, more than the Columbia and Colorado Rivers combined, the Conasauga serves residential, agricultural, and carpet industry needs in and around Dalton. Segments of the river are impaired due to sediment, nutrients, and fecal colifo...

Internal combustion engines have been a relatively inexpensive and reliable source of power for applications ranging from domestic use to large scale industrial and transportation applications for most of the twentieth century. DI Diesel engines, having the evident benefit of a higher thermal efficiency than all other engines, have served for both lightduty and heavy-duty vehicles. In DI diesel...

During the continuous casting of steel, transient flow events can be very important to the generation of quality problems. These transient phenomena can be computationally modeled using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) models while conventional K-ε models yield time-averaged results. Recently, Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) has been applied to measure quantitatively the transient velocity fields i...

Abstract Measurements of sound due to swirl–nozzle interaction are presented. In the experiment a swirl structure was generated by means unsteady tangential injection into steady swirl-free flow upstream from choked convergent–divergent nozzle. Ingestion nozzle caused mass-flow rate change, which resulted in downstream-measured acoustic response. The downstream pressure found remain negative as...

The axisymmetric flows with swirl or rotation were solved by a hybrid scheme with lattice Boltzmann method for the axial and radial velocities and finite-difference method for the azimuthal (or swirl) velocity and the temperature. An incompressible axisymmetric lattice Boltzmann D2Q9 model was proposed to solve the axial and radial velocities through inserting source terms into the two-dimensio...

A premixed turbulent combustion Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) database of a swirl burner is analyzed from three angles: estimation of the three-dimensional flame surface from two-dimensional fields; modeling of subgrid source and flux terms entering the balance equation for the reaction progress variable in Large Eddy Simulation (LES); and modeling of the subgrid-scale scalar variance in LE...