The application of a flapping foil with prescribed trailing edge motion to energy harvesting in a low reduced frequency (k = fc/U∞) regime was experimentally studied. The effects of the phase and amplitude of the applied trailing edge motion upon time-variant power extraction capability have been measured and are interpreted....
Previous studies in Magnetically Stabilized Fluidized Bed (MSFB) are well known for conventional two-phase, gas-solid or liquid-solid fluidization. Many researchers have investigated the fluid dynamic behavior of the MSFB, however, all of these studies are based on a uniform magnetic field that is constant throughout the bed column. Currently, there...
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In a fluidized bed of magnetically susceptible particles, the presence of
a magnetic field induce the formation of particle chains due to interparticle
magnetic forces. The resulting effect is a change in the overall spatial
distribution of the particles, transitioning from a random, isotropic distribution
to an ordered, anisotropic distribution....
This dissertation reports on the computational physics research in the area of
inhomogeneous fluids. I first discuss the theory background for this work beginning
with water, which is important for the two published articles that are presented in
this work (Chapters 5 and 6). Next, I give a brief overview...
Momentum transfer in an annular duct with upward gas-Iiquid
flow was studied under the condition that the liquid flowed as a film
only on the inner core of the annulus, the outer wall remaining dry.
Previous workers have studied climbing and falling liquid
films in tubes or on vertical planes....
The simplified equations of motion proposed by Morton to determine
the extent of vertical travel of a forced plume in a linear
density stratified environment were re-written and solved in a way
which allowed them to be applied to any non linear profile of density.
For application to any specific...
The problem of a general incompressible viscous fluid flow past
a flat plate with heat transfer due to forced convection is considered
in this thesis. The synthetic method developed by B. R.
Seth is applied to the Navier-Stokes equations and the equation of
energy governing the flow to obtain the...
By various experiments, it has been found that the response
of real materials to external forces is, in general,
nonlinear in character. In classical continuum mechanics,
the use of ordinary measures of strain have forced the
constitutive equations to take complex forms and since the
orders of these measures are...
Experimental measurements on the longitudinal dispersion of flowing water in coiled tubes were made using NaCi as tracer and conductivity measurement techniques. The 171 runs were made in coiled and straight 1/8", 1/4" and 1/2" I.D. polyethylene tubes from 25 to 300 ft. in length with coiling ratio, r/R[subscript c]...