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Micromechanical modeling of longitudinal compression behavior and failure mechanism of unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced aluminum composites involving initial fiber misalignment (2024)
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A micromechanical model with realistic initial fiber misalignment (IFM) was developed to simulate the longitudinal compression behavior of unidirectional carbon fiber/aluminum composites. The matrix and fiber were modeled using ductile damage law and... Read More about Micromechanical modeling of longitudinal compression behavior and failure mechanism of unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced aluminum composites involving initial fiber misalignment.

Validation of shock-wave/turbulent boundary-layer interaction flows by high-fidelity numerical simulations (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Shock-wave/turbulent-boundary-layer interactions (SWTBLI) are prevalent phenomena around high-speed vehicles. The resultant strong adverse pressure gradient will induce large flow separation, high wall heat flux, and strong pressure fluctuation, alon... Read More about Validation of shock-wave/turbulent boundary-layer interaction flows by high-fidelity numerical simulations.

Transient CFD modelling of air–water two-phase annular flow characteristics in a small horizontal circular pipe (2022)
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The liquid film formed around the inner walls of a small horizontal circular pipe often exhibits non-uniform distributions circumferentially, where the film is thinner at the top surface than the bottom one. Even with this known phenomenon, the probl... Read More about Transient CFD modelling of air–water two-phase annular flow characteristics in a small horizontal circular pipe.

Optimisation of straight plate upstream deflector for the performance enhancement of vertical axis wind turbine at low, medium and high regimes of tip speed ratios (2022)
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Location and geometry optimisations of Straight Plate Upstream Deflector (SPUD) for performance enhancement of a three-straightbladed Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) are carried out at three regimes of tip speed ratios (TSRs). Results analysis reve... Read More about Optimisation of straight plate upstream deflector for the performance enhancement of vertical axis wind turbine at low, medium and high regimes of tip speed ratios.

A review on the use of passive flow control devices as performance enhancement of lift-type vertical axis wind turbines (2022)
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This article provides a comprehensive review about passive flow control devices (PFCDs) implemented in lift-type vertical axis wind turbine (LVAWT), focusing on the underlying flow physics mechanisms and to what extents they can improve the LVAWT per... Read More about A review on the use of passive flow control devices as performance enhancement of lift-type vertical axis wind turbines.

Geometry optimisation of vertical axis wind turbine with Gurney flap for performance enhancement at low, medium and high ranges of tip speed ratios (2021)
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Optimisation of Gurney flap (GF) geometries mounted on a three-straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) is evaluated with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solution and Taguchi method, considering the blade rotating effect at three tip spee... Read More about Geometry optimisation of vertical axis wind turbine with Gurney flap for performance enhancement at low, medium and high ranges of tip speed ratios.

Optimal design of grid-connected rooftop PV systems: An overview and a new approach with application to educational buildings in arid climates (2021)
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Recently, rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems are widely deployed due to their technical, economic and socio-environmental benefits. This paper presents a new design approach, which combines spatial analysis with techno-economic optimization for a robu... Read More about Optimal design of grid-connected rooftop PV systems: An overview and a new approach with application to educational buildings in arid climates.

Comparison study of URANS and hybrid RANS-LES models on predicting vertical axis wind turbine performance at low, medium and high tip speed ratio ranges (2020)
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Comparison study of unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (URANS) and hybrid RANS-LES models is carried out for predicting the performance of three-straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbine operating within tip speed ratios (TSRs) ranges of (1.44... Read More about Comparison study of URANS and hybrid RANS-LES models on predicting vertical axis wind turbine performance at low, medium and high tip speed ratio ranges.

Design optimization of grid-connected PV-Hydrogen for energy prosumers considering sector-coupling paradigm: Case study of a university building in Algeria (2020)
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Integrating sector coupling technologies into Hydrogen (H2) based hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES) is becoming a promising way to create energy prosumers, despite the very little research work being done in this largely unexplored field. In thi... Read More about Design optimization of grid-connected PV-Hydrogen for energy prosumers considering sector-coupling paradigm: Case study of a university building in Algeria.

Flow analysis in right-angled pipes with different geometric shapes and parameters for sludge discharge in slime shield machines measured using a CFD-DEM method (2020)
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Mud and gravel deposition often occurs in circulation systems of pumps. In this paper, a liquid-solid coupling method combining CFD and DEM is proposed to study two-phase flow behavior of water, The flow characteristics of water-clay mud and the moti... Read More about Flow analysis in right-angled pipes with different geometric shapes and parameters for sludge discharge in slime shield machines measured using a CFD-DEM method.

Integrated supply–demand energy management for optimal design of off-grid hybrid renewable energy systems for residential electrification in arid climates (2020)
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The growing research interest in hybrid renewable energy systems (HRESs) has been regarded as a natural and yet critical response to address the challenge of rural electrification. Based on a Bibliometric analysis performed by authors, it was conclud... Read More about Integrated supply–demand energy management for optimal design of off-grid hybrid renewable energy systems for residential electrification in arid climates.

Assessment of stress-blended eddy simulation model for accurate performance prediction of vertical axis wind turbine (2020)
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Purpose: The aim of this paper is to assess the ability of a stress-blended eddy simulation (SBES) turbulence model to predict the performance of a three-straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). The grid sensitivity study is conducted to ev... Read More about Assessment of stress-blended eddy simulation model for accurate performance prediction of vertical axis wind turbine.

A composite feedback approach to stabilize nonholonomic systems with time varying time delays and nonlinear disturbances (2020)
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In this work, we propose a robust stabilizer for nonholonomic systems with time varying time delays and nonlinear disturbances. The proposed approach implements a composite nonlinear feedback structure in which a linear controller is designed to yiel... Read More about A composite feedback approach to stabilize nonholonomic systems with time varying time delays and nonlinear disturbances.

A GIS-MOPSO integrated method for optimal design of grid-connected HRES for educational buildings (2019)
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 Abstract. In this paper, an optimal design of a grid-connected PV-battery-hydrogen hybrid renewable energy system (HRES) at a University campus in Ouargla, Algeria is carried out. To achieve this goal, geographical information system (GIS), CAD sof... Read More about A GIS-MOPSO integrated method for optimal design of grid-connected HRES for educational buildings.

Detached eddy simulation of blade trailing-edge cutback cooling performance at various ejection slot angles (2019)
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© 2019 Elsevier Inc. Detached eddy simulation (DES) has been carried out to study a three-dimensional trailing-edge (TE) cutback turbine blade model with five rows of staggered circular pin-fin arrays inside the cooling passage, in order to evaluate... Read More about Detached eddy simulation of blade trailing-edge cutback cooling performance at various ejection slot angles.

Pin-fin shape and orientation effects on wall heat transfer predictions of gas turbine blade (2019)
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Turbine blades are often exposed to the ‘hot’ gas environment and thus it is essential to apply effective cooling technique to extend the blade lifetime. In the present work, wall heat transfer characteristics inside a blade trailing-edge coolant pas... Read More about Pin-fin shape and orientation effects on wall heat transfer predictions of gas turbine blade.

Influence of non-iterative time-advancement schemes on the aerodynamic prediction of pitching airfoils using dynamic mesh (2019)
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A pitching airfoil problem is addressed in this paper to assess the use of a non-iterative time-advancement (NITA) scheme with dynamic mesh method, and also to estimate possible CPU time savings. Simulations have shown that using a combination of dyn... Read More about Influence of non-iterative time-advancement schemes on the aerodynamic prediction of pitching airfoils using dynamic mesh.

Assessment of stress-blended eddy simulation model for accurate prediction of three-straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbine performance (2019)
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The performance of a three-straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbine at low tip speed ratio has been evaluated by detached eddy simulation (DES) with stress-blended eddy simulation (SBES) turbulence model. Two grid topologies around the blades, i.e.... Read More about Assessment of stress-blended eddy simulation model for accurate prediction of three-straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbine performance.

Selecting nozzle arrangement of a chimney tower to reduce the temperature and to increase the entrainment mass flow (2018)
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© TJPRC Pvt. Ltd. The aim of this research work was to find the best arrangement of nozzles inside the chimney tower to reduce the temperature and to increase the entrainment mass flow. An existing design of the nozzle arrangement was used as the ref... Read More about Selecting nozzle arrangement of a chimney tower to reduce the temperature and to increase the entrainment mass flow.

A review of current technical development in vertical axis wind turbine technologies and their braking system for low speed, urban and offshore areas application (2018)
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Recently, there are growing interests of using Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) to harvest wind energy from low wind speed in urban areas to relatively high wind speed in offshore wind farms. Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) has been known to hav... Read More about A review of current technical development in vertical axis wind turbine technologies and their braking system for low speed, urban and offshore areas application.

The influence of valve-pump weight ratios on the dynamic response of leaking valve-pump parallel control hydraulic systems (2018)
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© 2018 by the authors. A new leaking valve-pump parallel control (LVPC) oil hydraulic system is proposed to improve the performance of dynamic response of present variable speed pump control (VSPC) system, which is an oil hydraulic control system wit... Read More about The influence of valve-pump weight ratios on the dynamic response of leaking valve-pump parallel control hydraulic systems.

Further development of a variable camber morphing mechanism using the direct control airfoil geometry concept (2018)
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This paper reports on the design, manufacture and testing of an improved variable camber morphing wing mechanism following the study by Evans et al. (2016), who employed the so-called Direct Control Airfoil Geometry (DCAG) concept to actuate the trai... Read More about Further development of a variable camber morphing mechanism using the direct control airfoil geometry concept.

Slat broadband noise prediction of multi-element 30P30N airfoil by a hybrid RANS-LES method (2018)
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This paper presents a combined CFD and CAA study to assess the slat noise emissions from a multi-element 30P30N airfoil at the 5-degree and 8-degree angle of attack, using a hybrid RANS-LES method. In this simulation, the structured mesh is used and... Read More about Slat broadband noise prediction of multi-element 30P30N airfoil by a hybrid RANS-LES method.

Aerodynamic analysis of a harmonically morphing flap using a hybrid turbulence model and dynamic meshing (2018)
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© 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved. A numerical study of the NACA 0012 airfoil fitted with a harmonically morphing trailing edge flap (TEF) is performed at an angle of attack of 4º and a Reynolds... Read More about Aerodynamic analysis of a harmonically morphing flap using a hybrid turbulence model and dynamic meshing.

Direct numerical simulation of a tip-leakage vortex model in a planar duct with a longitudinal slit (2017)
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A computational model of a planar duct with a cross flow injected from a longitudinal slit on the top of the duct is developed to study the tip-leakage vortex (TLV) which is one of the most important flow phenomena within the rotor of turbomachinery.... Read More about Direct numerical simulation of a tip-leakage vortex model in a planar duct with a longitudinal slit.

Large-scale secondary vortices in the turbulent channel flow induced by active wall actuations (2017)
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Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the turbulent channel flow with spanwise alternatively distributed out-of-phase (OP) and in-phase (IP) wall actuations strips (SADS) are conducted to investigate the characteristics of the large-scale streamwise... Read More about Large-scale secondary vortices in the turbulent channel flow induced by active wall actuations.

Large-scale Secondary Vortices Generated by Wall Actuations: Application to the Turbulent Channel Flow (2017)
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The large-scale streamwise vortex (LSSV) generation mechanism in the turbulent boundary layer is closely linked to the turbulent mixing process and its potential to suppress flow separation. Direct numerical simulations (DNSs) of weakly compressible... Read More about Large-scale Secondary Vortices Generated by Wall Actuations: Application to the Turbulent Channel Flow.

Investigation of three-dimensional shock wave/turbulent-boundary-layer interaction initiated by a single fin (2016)
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Three-dimensional shock wave/turbulent-boundary-layer interaction of a hypersonic flow passing a single fin mounted on a flat plate at a Mach number of five and unit Reynolds number 3.7×10^7 was conducted by a large-eddy simulation approach. The perf... Read More about Investigation of three-dimensional shock wave/turbulent-boundary-layer interaction initiated by a single fin.

Large-scale turbulent secondary flows induced by spanwise alternatively distributed strips control (2016)
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In this study, direct numerical simulations (DNS) of a weakly compressible turbulent channel flow with Spanwise Alternatively Distributed Strips (SADS) control are conducted to investigate the characteristics of the LSSV induced by small-scale wall a... Read More about Large-scale turbulent secondary flows induced by spanwise alternatively distributed strips control.

Comparative study on pole placement controller design with U-Model approach & classical approach (2016)
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© 2016 TCCT. As a universal framework, U-model has established an enabling design prototype for the control of non-linear dynamic plants with concise and applicable linear approaches. This study is devoted to a remaining fundamental research question... Read More about Comparative study on pole placement controller design with U-Model approach & classical approach.

Large-eddy simulation of shock-wave/turbulent boundary-layer interactions and its control using Sparkjet (2016)
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Large-eddy simulations (LES) of the oblique impinging shock-wave/flat plate boundary layer interactions at Mach=2.3 and Reδ=20000 were carried out to investigate the underlying flow physics associated with flow separation and shock unsteadiness. The... Read More about Large-eddy simulation of shock-wave/turbulent boundary-layer interactions and its control using Sparkjet.

Investigation of zeolite supported platinum electrocatalyst for electrochemical oxidation of small organic species (2016)
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© 2016 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC Zeolite supported Pt electrocatalysts, made by ion exchange method using Pt/Y type zeolite, have been investigated to determine Pt electrochemical activity of HCOOH and CH3OH oxidation using the cyclic voltamme... Read More about Investigation of zeolite supported platinum electrocatalyst for electrochemical oxidation of small organic species.

Large-eddy simulation of shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction with and without SparkJet control (2016)
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© 2016 Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Production and hosting by Elsevier Ltd. The efficiency and mechanism of an active control device "SparkJet" and its application in shock-induced separation control are studied using large-eddy s... Read More about Large-eddy simulation of shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction with and without SparkJet control.

Direct numerical simulation of supersonic turbulent flows around a tandem expansion-compression corner (2015)
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© 2015 AIP Publishing LLC. The M = 2.9 supersonic turbulent flows over a tandem expansion-compression corner configuration with a sharp deflection angle of 25° at three Reynolds numbers Reδ = 20 000, 40 000, and 80 000 were studied by using direct nu... Read More about Direct numerical simulation of supersonic turbulent flows around a tandem expansion-compression corner.

Large-eddy simulation of a three-dimensional shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction of a single-fin (2015)
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The three-dimension (3D) shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction (SWTBLI) raised from a hypersonic flow passing a single-fin at Mach 5 is investigated i by using LES. The performed LES has demonstrated very good agreements with available expe... Read More about Large-eddy simulation of a three-dimensional shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction of a single-fin.

Numerical optimisation of thermal comfort improvement for indoor environment with occupants and furniture (2015)
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© 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Indoor thermal environment of a 3-D ventilated room was studied by computational fluid dynamics to understand correlations between heat generation, ventilation velocity and thermal sensation indices. The exis... Read More about Numerical optimisation of thermal comfort improvement for indoor environment with occupants and furniture.

Assessment of the low-dissipation monotonicity-preserving scheme in a series of DNS of shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions (2015)
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The seventh-order low-dissipation monotonicity-preserving scheme developed by Fang et al. (Journal of Scientific Computing, 2013, 56:67-95) was assessed in direct numerical simulations (DNS) of isotropic turbulence and channel flow. The influence of... Read More about Assessment of the low-dissipation monotonicity-preserving scheme in a series of DNS of shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions.

Mixing flow characteristics for a transverse sonic jet injecting into a supersonic crossflow (2015)
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Detached-eddy simulation (DES) of a sonic jet flow issuing perpendicularly into a supersonic crossflow is presented. The supersonic boundary layer flow has conditions of incoming Mach number 1.6 and Reynolds number Reδ 1.08×105, based on the free-str... Read More about Mixing flow characteristics for a transverse sonic jet injecting into a supersonic crossflow.

Large-eddy simulation of a three-dimensional hypersonic shock wave turbulent boundary layer interaction of a single fin (2015)
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The large-eddy simulation (LES) of a hypersonic flow passing a single-fin at Mach 5 and Re∞=3.7×107/m was conducted and the three-dimensional (3D) shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction (SWTBLI) was studied in the present paper. This is prob... Read More about Large-eddy simulation of a three-dimensional hypersonic shock wave turbulent boundary layer interaction of a single fin.

Equations of state implementation for 1-D modelling of performance in ram accelerator thermally choked propulsion mode (2015)
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© 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This paper presents advancement on one-dimensional (1-D) unsteady modelling of a ram accelerator (RAMAC) in the sub-detonative velocity regime by including real-gas equations of state (EoS) in order to account for... Read More about Equations of state implementation for 1-D modelling of performance in ram accelerator thermally choked propulsion mode.

On the reliability of reynolds-averaged navier stokes prediction of mean flow characteristics of a rectangular turbulent jet in crossflow (2014)
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© 2014 Khali and Yao. A jet of fluid discharging into a cross stream, also known as Jet In Crossflow (JICF), has received many experimental and numerical investigations. In addition to the fundamental understanding of three-dimensional mixing and she... Read More about On the reliability of reynolds-averaged navier stokes prediction of mean flow characteristics of a rectangular turbulent jet in crossflow.

Investigation of low-dissipation monotonicity-preserving scheme for direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulent flows (2014)
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. The influence of numerical dissipation on direct numerical simulation (DNS) of decaying isotropic turbulence and turbulent channel flow is investigated respectively by using the seventh-order low-dissipation monotonicity-preservi... Read More about Investigation of low-dissipation monotonicity-preserving scheme for direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulent flows.

Direct numerical simulation of supersonic turbulent flow in an expansion-compression corner at mach=2.9 (2014)
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Shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions (SWTBLI) are prevalent phenomena in high-speed flights, which could cause large flow separation and high wall heat flux and strong pressure fluctuation, therefore, affect significantly the aero-thermod... Read More about Direct numerical simulation of supersonic turbulent flow in an expansion-compression corner at mach=2.9.

Numerical simulations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions (2014)
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The impinging shock-wave/flat-plate boundary layer interaction is a standard CFD case for two-dimensional (2D) SWTBLI, which represents the simplest SWTBLI configuration for the validation of turbulence models and computational methods. Although plen... Read More about Numerical simulations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions.

Predicting film cooling performance of trailing–edge cutback turbine blades by detached–eddy simulation (2014)
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This paper describes numerical studies of the film cooling performance of cutback trailing-edge gas turbine blades using the detached eddy simulation (DES) approach, in order to improve results obtained by industry standard steady RANS and unsteady R... Read More about Predicting film cooling performance of trailing–edge cutback turbine blades by detached–eddy simulation.

Effect of mesh topologies on wall heat transfer and pressure loss prediction of a blade coolant passage (2013)
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This paper studies the effect of mesh topologies such as hybrid and structured meshes on the evaluation of wall heat transfer coefficient (HTC) and pressure loss of a blade cooling passage. An experimental model is chosen; it has five-row of stream w... Read More about Effect of mesh topologies on wall heat transfer and pressure loss prediction of a blade coolant passage.

Investigating the effects on the low speed response of a pressure charged IC engine through the application of a twin-entry turbine housing (2013)
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In this study, one-dimensional analysis using AVL Boost software has been carried out on a series of compression and spark ignition engines utilizing a manufacturer fitted single-entry turbocharger and a modified twin-entry unit, the latter adopting... Read More about Investigating the effects on the low speed response of a pressure charged IC engine through the application of a twin-entry turbine housing.

Effect of jet inclination angle and hole exit shape on vortical flow structures in low-reynolds number jet in cross-flow (2012)
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Numerical studies have been performed to visualize vortical flow structures emerged from jet cross-flow interactions. A single square jet issuing perpendicularly into a cross-flow was simulated first, followed by two additional scenarios, that is, in... Read More about Effect of jet inclination angle and hole exit shape on vortical flow structures in low-reynolds number jet in cross-flow.

Flow topology and secondary separation modelling at crossing shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction conditions (2012)
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Steady RANS modelling has been carried out for a symmetrical double-sharp-fin configuration with an inclination angle 15°, Mach 3.92 and Reynolds number Reδ = 3.08 x 105. Grid refinement and turbulence model influences using ω-based Reynolds Stress m... Read More about Flow topology and secondary separation modelling at crossing shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction conditions.

Improved one-dimensional unsteady modeling of thermally choked ram accelerator in subdetonative velocity regime (2011)
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The subdetonative propulsion mode using thermal choking has been studied with a one-dimensional (1D) real gas model that included projectile acceleration. Numerical results from a control volume analysis that accounted for unsteady flow effects estab... Read More about Improved one-dimensional unsteady modeling of thermally choked ram accelerator in subdetonative velocity regime.

Numerical study of gaseous reactive flow over a ram accelerator projectile in subdetonative velocity regime (2011)
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Computational fluid dynamics solutions of the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes equations have been used to numerically predict the thrust of a thermally choked ram accelerator in subdetonative velocity regime. Studies were focused on a projectile oper... Read More about Numerical study of gaseous reactive flow over a ram accelerator projectile in subdetonative velocity regime.

Numerical investigation of system pressure effect on heat transfer of supercritical water flows in a horizontal round tube (2008)
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The system pressure effect on heat transfer of supercritical water (SCW) flows in a horizontal round tube has been studied by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique, aiming for extending previous researches on the buoyancy effect by furth... Read More about Numerical investigation of system pressure effect on heat transfer of supercritical water flows in a horizontal round tube.