In this paper, the Al2O3-water nanofluid flow in laminar and turbulent flows inside tubes fitted with diamond-shaped turbulators is numerically modeled. The nanofluid flow is modeled by employing a two-phase mixture method and applying the constant heat flux boundary condition at tube walls. In the results, the effects of different parameters such as the geometry of turbulators, volume fraction...

This paper presents fast moving window algorithms for calculating local statistics in a diamond, hexagon, and general polygonal shaped windows of an image which is important for real-time applications. The algorithms for a diamond shaped window requires only seven or eight additions and subtractions per pixel. A fast sparse algorithm only needs four additions and subtractions for a sparse diamo...

This paper presents fast recursive or moving windows algorithms for calculating local means in a diamond, hexagon and general polygonal shaped windows of an image. The algorithms for diamond shaped window require only seven or eight additions and subtractions per pixel. A number of other shapes of diamond windows such as skewed or parallelogram shaped diamond, long diamond, and lozenged diamond...

We report the systematic studies on the fabrication of aligned, uniform, and highly dense diamond nanostructures from diamond films of various granular structures. Self-assembled Au nanodots are used as a mask in the self-biased reactive-ion etching (RIE) process, using an O2/CF4 process plasma. The morphology of diamond nanostructures is a close function of the initial phase composition of dia...

Abstract An experimental and numerical study of the convective heat transfer enhancement provided by two rib families (W Broken W) is presented, covering Reynolds numbers (Re) between 300,000 to 900,000 in a straight channel with rectangular cross section (AR=1.29). These high were selected for current since most data available literature typically pertain investigations at lower numbers. The o...

BACKGROUND Obtaining vascular access suitable for long-term use in hemodialysis patients is of utmost importance. In these patients, autogenous methods are generally used for access. There are various techniques for obtaining autogenous access in hemodialysis patients. MATERIAL/METHODS Our objective was to evaluate the outcomes of the "diamond-shaped anastomosis" technique used as a surgical ...

Methods: Forty disc-shaped specimens were fabricated with a feldspathic porcelain (Super Porcelain EX3), glazed, and randomly divided into 4 experimental groups and 1 control group (n=8/group). For the experimental groups, the glazed layer was ground with a diamond rotary instrument, and the surface was polished with: rubber points (Edenta), steel finishing burs (Meisinger), silicon rubber poin...

This study evaluated the effect of specimens’ design and manufacturing process on microtensile bond strength, internal stress distributions (Finite Element Analysis FEA) and specimens’ integrity by means of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy (LCM). Excite was applied to flat enamel surface and a resin composite build-ups were made incrementally with 1-mm i...