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 …

Flow and heat transfer across two inline rotating cylinders: Effects of blockage, gap spacing, Reynolds number, and rotation direction

MR Rastan, A Sohankar, MM Alam - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2021 - Elsevier
The manipulation of the heat transfer and flow field using cylinder rotation is of a classical
issue. It is of fundamental importance to study the dependence of wake and thermal …

[HTML][HTML] Flow structure and dynamics behind cylinder arrays at Reynolds number∼ 100

M Sharifi Ghazijahani, C Cierpka - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The flow behind nine different arrays of cylinders is experimentally investigated via Particle
Image Velocimetry (PIV) at a Reynolds number of Re∼ 100 based on the diameter 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 …

Numerical investigations on flow over tandem grooved cylinders

JF Derakhshandeh, Y Gharbia, C Ji - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Flow regulation between two tandem circular cylinders is a key topic in a variety of
engineering applications. The numerical study of laminar flow regimes over two tandem …

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 …

Thermo-fluids effects of a grooved circular cylinder in laminar flow regimes

JF Derakhshandeh, ZG Tari, N Gharib - International Communications in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The force coefficients and heat transfer related to a circular cylinder with grooved surfaces
are studied at Re≤ 200. Three types of grooved surfaces are examined: square, triangle …

Flow-induced vibration of a cantilevered cylinder in the wake of another

MM Alam, G Chen, Y Zhou, L Wang, J Wang… - Journal of Fluids and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This work presents an experimental study of the flow-induced vibration of a cantilevered
circular cylinder in the wake of another cylinder, fix-supported at both ends. The diameter …