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 …

Blockage effect on wakes of various bluff bodies: A review of confined flow

R Mondal, MM Alam - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In many industrial applications, fluid flow around bluff bodies is confined between two
parallel walls. This paper provides a thorough review of the studies on the confined flow …

Heat transfer and flow around cylinder: Effect of corner radius and Reynolds number

T Abdelhamid, MM Alam, M Islam - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2021 - Elsevier
This numerical study aims to investigate the flow around, heat transfer from, and
aerodynamic forces on a square cylinder with the corner radius ratio r/R= 0.0–1.0 and …

Flow-induced vibrations of single and multiple heated circular cylinders: A review

U Ali, M Islam, I Janajreh, Y Fatt, MM Alam - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study is an effort to encapsulate the fundamentals and major findings in the area of fluid-
solid interaction, particularly the flow-induced vibrations (FIV). Periodic flow separation and …

Flow over rectangular cylinder: Effects of cylinder aspect ratio and Reynolds number

A Mashhadi, A Sohankar, MM Alam - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations of two-and three-dimensional unconfined flows over rectangular
cylinders are conducted at Reynolds number Re= 30–200. The cylinder cross-sectional …

[HTML][HTML] Transition of wake flows past two circular or square cylinders in tandem

MR Rastan, MM Alam - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents the dependence of flow transitions and flow regimes on Reynolds
number Re (≤ 10 5) and scaled cylinder center-to-center spacing S*(≤ 10) for two tandem …

A review of cylinder corner effect on flow and heat transfer

MM Alam - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the literature and to impart a
perspective on the current status and future directions for fundamentals of flow around and …

The fluid mechanics of deep-sea mining

T Peacock, R Ouillon - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Fluid mechanics lies at the heart of many of the physical processes associated with the
nascent deep-sea mining industry. The evolution and fate of sediment plumes that would be …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in understanding the flow over bluff bodies with different geometries at moderate Reynolds numbers

MR Lekkala, M Latheef, JH Jung, A Coraddu, H Zhu… - Ocean …, 2022 - Elsevier
The application of unsteady incompressible flow phenomenon over the bluff bodies has
received the attention of many researchers due to the rich and complex physics …

Effect of cylinder corner radius and attack angle on heat transfer and flow topology

MM Alam, T Abdelhamid, A Sohankar - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2020 - Elsevier
The flow topology, heat transfer, and forces are numerically studied for a cylinder with its
cross-section varied from square to circular by changing the cylinder corner radius ratio r/R …