A detailed review and analysis of the hydrodynamic characteristics of laminar developing and fully developed flows in noncircular ducts is presented. New models are proposed, which simplify the prediction of the friction factor–Reynolds product f Re for developing and fully developed flows in most noncircular duct geometries found in heat exchanger applications. By means of scaling analysis it ...

In this research, a comparison of the relevance vector machine (RVM), least square support vector machine (LSSVM) and the radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) for evaporation duct estimation are presented. The parabolic equation model is adopted as the forward propagation model, and which is used to establish the training database between the radar sea clutter power and the evaporation ...

Experimentation has been carried out to find the influence of a gap provided in ribs on thermohydraulic performance of a square duct roughened with discrete inclined ribs. The two opposite walls of the square duct are roughened with ribs having attack angle (α) of 45 and a gap on its length. The investigation has been performed for relative roughness pitch (p/e) of 10, relative roughness height...

Electrostatic charge on powders arises during pneumatic transport due to particle–particle and particle–surface interactions via triboelectrification. This is a potential threat the safety of industrial production source numerous fires dust explosions in past. Triboelectric charges are affected by environmental conditions, such as ambient temperature relative humidity. In this work, we experime...

A parallel direct-forcing fictitious domain method is applied in fully-resolved numerical simulations of particle-laden turbulent flows in a square duct. The effects of finite-size heavy particles on the mean secondary flow, the mean streamwise velocity, the root-mean-square velocity fluctuation, and the particle concentration distribution are investigated at the friction Reynolds number of 150...