Bridges when it crossing rivers often required multiple piers for support. One of has a limited investigation is the impact on scouring and morphological aspects bridge sharp-bend river. Consequently, crucial to investigate hydraulic behavior water flow in these areas due presence piers. In present study, an experimental program was conducted laboratory flume featuring two-pier within 180-degre...

Flow in river bends is associated with generation of secondary flows that leads to a rather complicated flow pattern around bridge piers located the bend. In this study, patterns rectangular and oblong models collar at 90o angle 180-degree sharp bend an experimental plume were investigated. The 3D velocity data collected using Vectrino velocimeter. results indicated presence pier caused more in...

In the present research, the laminar forced convective heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics for Al2O3-water nanofluid flowing in different bend (i.e., 180o and 90o) pipes have been investigated numerically in a three-dimensional computational domain using the finite volume technique. The effects of different pertinent parameters, such as the Reynolds number of the duct, volume fraction ...

The absence of turbulence and the difficulty associated with introducing moving components into microfluidic systems make the mixing problem in microdevices challenging. We studied steady, laminar, incompressible flow through a sequence of conduits with rectangular cross-sections aligned to form 90o with each other. The feasibility of taking advantage of bend-induced vortices to stir the fluid ...

Type II DNA topoisomerases actively reduce the fractions of knotted and catenated circular DNA below thermodynamic equilibrium values. To explain this surprising finding, we designed a model in which topoisomerases introduce a sharp bend in DNA. Because the enzymes have a specific orientation relative to the bend, they act like Maxwell's demon, providing unidirectional strand passage. Quantitat...

recognizing of river flow pattern, deposition and erosion areas in meanders is highly important. despite the limitations of the physical models in laboratory investigation of flow pattern in meanders, mathematical models can be helpful. in this research, rsm and les turbulence models have been compared on sharp river bend of a laboratory flume using fluent software. the laboratory flume is a sh...

A 68-year old male with ischaemic cardiomyopathy who underwent HeartMate II implantation complained of chest discomfort 4 months after the operation. Computed tomography images clearly demonstrated a disconnected outflow graft bend relief (Fig. 1). During reoperation, the bend relief was indeed found to be disconnected and the outflow graft was severely abraded by the sharp metal end of the ben...

Base-level fall in river beds occurs due to varying natural or unnatural causes. Base-level fall causes the change in the behavior of flow at the location of drop in base-level. In such situations, most of scour occur at the foot of the slope, and slope wall retreats in the upstream direction. This phenomenon widens the wall of the river bank, thus leading to its destruction. The amount of bed ...

A PIV study of the flow in a stationary model of a smooth two-pass internal coolant passage is presented, which focuses on the flow characteristics in the sharp 180o bend and downstream of the bend where the flow is redeveloping. Because PIV in its traditional conception only allows for the investigation of two-dimensional flow, a stereoscopic digital PIV system was assembled that measures all ...