A review of bluff body wakes

JF Derakhshandeh, MM Alam - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
The application of an unsteady viscous flow around a bluff body has covered a wide range
of scientific fields. This paper reviews the wakes of different cross-sectional bluff bodies …

A comprehensive review of automatic cleaning systems of solar panels

JF Derakhshandeh, R AlLuqman, S Mohammad… - Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic modules are well-established, commercially accepted systems that have been
generating electricity since 1995. The efficiency of solar energy produced by photovoltaic …

The wake of a wall-mounted rectangular cylinder: Cross-sectional aspect ratio effect

MR Rastan, H Shahbazi, A Sohankar, MM Alam… - Journal of Wind …, 2021 - Elsevier
Large-eddy simulations are performed to study the wake of a wall-mounted finite-length
rectangular prism at a Reynolds number Re​=​ 1.2​×​ 10 4 for the prism aspect ratio AR …

Experimental investigations on the wake‐induced vibration of an electromagnetic energy‐harvesting system

A Sarviha, E Barati, MR Zarkak… - … Journal of Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The wake energy of an electromagnetic harvesting device is derived from the phenomena of
wake‐induced vibration (WIV). Experiments were conducted to determine the effects of the …

Numerical investigations on the flow control over bumped surface circular cylinders

JF Derakhshandeh, N Gharib - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
External flow-induced forces on bumped surface circular cylinders in laminar flow regimes
are studied at a range of Reynolds numbers up to 200. This study examines three types of …

[HTML][HTML] Manipulation of bumpy surface cylinders for flow control and heat transfer improvement

JF Derakhshandeh, R Taher, M Khaled - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present work aims at investigating laminar flow effects over bumped-surface circular
cylinders at Reynolds number≤ 200. Three bumpy cylinder surfaces are considered and …

Analysis of wake induced vibration of a coupled circular cylinder-piezoelectric using two-way fluid structural interaction

JF Derakhshandeh - Applied Ocean Research, 2022 - Elsevier
A wake-induced vibration of a self-excitation thin Piezoelectric (PZT) actuator is being
studied to explore some aspects of energy harvesting using vortices energy. The PZT is …

Laminar flow instabilities of a grooved circular cylinder

JF Derakhshandeh, N Gharib - Journal of the Brazilian Society of …, 2020 - Springer
This paper represents a numerical study on the flow past a grooved circular cylinder with a
diameter of D. The study aims to investigate the instabilities of the flow at laminar flow …

Numerical study on multiple bubbles condensation in subcooled boiling flow based on CLSVOF method

M Bahreini, JF Derakhshandeh, A Ramiar… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Numerical studies are performed to investigate the condensation behavior of single and
multiple bubbles in subcooled boiling flow. An open-source code is developed to model the …

Numerical studies of laminar flow over two tandem elliptical cylinders using Ramanujan approximation

JF Derakhshandeh, N Gharib - Journal of the Brazilian Society of …, 2021 - Springer
This paper studies a laminar flow over tandem elliptical cylinders at Re= 200. While the
aspect ratio (AR) of the upstream cylinder varies from AR= a_ 1 a 1/b_ 1 b 1= 0.25 to 2.00 …