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Theofano I. Koutrouveli, Enrico Di Lauro, Luciana das Neves, Tomás Calheiros-Cabral, Paulo Rosa-Santos and Francisco Taveira-Pinto
Despite the efforts of developers, investors and scientific community, the successful development of a competitive wave energy industry is proving elusive. One of the most important barriers against wave energy conversion is the efficiency of the devices...
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Rachael McKee, Björn Elsäßer and Pál Schmitt
The quantification of the reflection of water waves is of paramount importance in coastal and marine engineering. Reflected waves are produced as a result of an incident wave meeting a reflective boundary e.g., in a wave basin. While reflection can be se...
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Rachael McKee, Björn Elsäßer and Pál Schmitt
The quantification of the reflection of water waves is of paramount importance in coastal and marine engineering. Reflected waves are produced as a result of an incident wave meeting a reflective boundary e.g., in a wave basin. While reflection can be se...
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Yan Sun, Yuntao Wang, Andrea Da Ronch and Dehong Meng
The influence of model deformation needs to be corrected before the aerodynamic force data measured in the wind tunnel is applied to aircraft design. In order to obtain the aerodynamic forces on rigid model shape, this paper presents a fast correction me...
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Yan Sun, Yuntao Wang, Andrea Da Ronch and Dehong Meng
The influence of model deformation needs to be corrected before the aerodynamic force data measured in the wind tunnel is applied to aircraft design. In order to obtain the aerodynamic forces on rigid model shape, this paper presents a fast correction me...
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Davide Basso, Carlo Cravero, Andrea P. Reverberi and Bruno Fabiano
The overall efficiency of a regenerative chamber for a glass furnace mainly relies on the thermo-fluid dynamics of air and waste gas alternatively flowing through stacks of refractory bricks (checkers) determining the heat recovery. A numerical approach ...
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Khaqan Baluch, Heon-Joon Park, Kyuchan Ji and Sher Q. Baluch
Whilst numerical modelling is commonly used for simulation to check the design of water conveyance, sluicing and spillway structure design, the numerical modelling has rarely been compared with the physical model tests. The objective of this research pre...
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Yuxiang Zhang, Reamonn MacReamoinn, Philip Cardiff and Jennifer Keenahan
Aerodynamic performance is of critical importance to the design of long-span bridges. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling offers bridge designers an opportunity to investigate aerodynamic performance for long-span bridges during the design phase...
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Gabriel-Alexandru Constantin, Mariana-Gabriela Munteanu, Gheorghe Voicu, Gigel Paraschiv and Elena-Madalina ?tefan
The baking process in tunnel ovens can be influenced by many parameters. Among these, the most important can be considered as: the baking time, the volume of dough pieces, the texture and humidity of the dough, the distribution of temperature inside the ...
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Marco Casoni and Ernesto Benini
Aeroelastic phenomena in turbomachinery are one of the most challenging problems to model using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) due to their inherent nonlinear nature, the difficulties in simulating fluid?structure interactions and the considerable co...
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Angus Gray-Stephens, Tahsin Tezdogan and Sandy Day
This study investigates the level of accuracy with which Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is capable of modelling the nearfield longitudinal wake profiles of a high-speed planing hull. It also looks to establish how various set-ups influence the accura...
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Balázs Farkas, Jeno Miklós Suda
Pág. 308 - 318
The evaluation of a newly designed oil-free rotary compressor is presented based on transient 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. The simulations are performed at low compression ratios and low pressure ratios and low rotational speeds. To...
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Gustavo Pinto, Francisco Silva, Jacobo Porteiro, José Míguez and Andresa Baptista
The technological evolution in the last century also required an evolution of materials and coatings. Therefore, it was necessary to make mechanical components subject to heavy wear more reliable, improving their mechanical strength and durability. Surfa...
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Garyfalia A. Zoumpouli, Robert Baker, Caitlin M. Taylor, Matthew J. Chippendale, Chloë Smithers, Sean S. X. Ho, Davide Mattia, Y. M. John Chew and Jannis Wenk
A membrane ozonation contactor was built to investigate ozonation using tubular membranes and inform computational fluid dynamics (CFD) studies. Non-porous tubular polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membranes of 1.0?3.2 mm inner diameter were tested at ozone ga...
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Ehsan Gholamalizadeh and Jae Dong Chung
A solar chimney power plant consists of four main parts, a solar collector, a chimney, an energy storage layer, and a wind turbine. So far, several investigations on the performance of the solar chimney power plant have been conducted. Among them, differ...
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Roberto Pacciani, Michele Marconcini and Andrea Arnone
The paper describes the development and validation of a novel computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based throughflow model. It is based on the axisymmetric Euler equations with tangential blockage and body forces and inherits its numerical scheme from a st...
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Marius Schneider, Heinz-Peter Schiffer and Knut Lehmann
An algorithm is presented generating a complete set of inlet boundary conditions for Reynolds-averaged Navier?Stokes computational fluid dynamics (RANS CFD) of high-pressure turbines to investigate their interaction with lean and rich burn combustors. Th...
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Anna M. Karpinska, John Bridgeman
Pág. 861 - 879
Nowadays, one of the major challenges in the wastewater sector is the successful design and reliable operation of treatment processes, which guarantee high treatment efficiencies to comply with effluent quality criteria, while keeping the investment and ...
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Sergey Pogorelskiy and Imre Kocsis
One of the most energy-intensive facilities requiring a comprehensive and well-optimised cooling system is the data centre. Air containment across the data centre is a key thermal management and energy-saving strategy that enhances the performance of dat...
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Frank A. Plua, Francisco-Javier Sánchez-Romero, Victor Hidalgo, Petra Amparo López-Jiménez and Modesto Pérez-Sánchez
The selection of pumps as turbines (PATs) for their respective use in energy optimisation systems is a complicated task, because manufacturers do not provide the characteristic curves. For this reason, some research has been carried out to predict them w...
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