Experimental investigation of pulsating flow structures and heat transfer characteristics in sinusoidal channels

N Kurtulmuş, B Sahin - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present work, hydrodynamics and heat transfer characteristics in the sinusoidal
channel are investigated experimentally for both steady and pulsating flow conditions. The …

Numerical investigation of low Reynolds number flow past two and three circular cylinders using unstructured grid CFR scheme

AB Harichandan, A Roy - International Journal of heat and fluid flow, 2010 - Elsevier
An incompressible unsteady viscous two-dimensional finite volume Navier–Stokes solver is
developed using “consistent flux reconstruction” technique on a collocated unstructured …

Tree-inspired piezoelectric energy harvesting

WB Hobbs, DL Hu - Journal of fluids and Structures, 2012 - Elsevier
We design and test micro-watt energy-harvesters inspired by tree trunks swaying in the
wind. A uniform flow vibrates a linear array of four cylinders affixed to piezoelectric energy …

Numerical simulation of flow over three circular cylinders in equilateral arrangements at low Reynolds number by a second-order characteristic-based split finite …

Y Bao, D Zhou, C Huang - Computers & Fluids, 2010 - Elsevier
In this paper, two versions of a second-order characteristic-based split scheme are
developed in the framework of incremental projection method for the solution of …

Numerical investigation of flow around an inline square cylinder array with different spacing ratios

Y Bao, Q Wu, D Zhou - Computers & Fluids, 2012 - Elsevier
Flow around an inline cylinder array consisting of six square cylinders at a Reynolds number
of 100 is investigated numerically by using a second-order characteristic-based split finite …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical study of the fluid dynamics and heat transfer for shear-thinning nanofluids in a micro pin-fin heat sink

A González, O Ruz, E Castillo - Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The ability to enhance heat transfer rates of shear-thinning fluids in microchannel devices is
evaluated numerically for steady and time-dependent flows in the range of 400< Re< 2000 …

Microvortex-enhanced heat transfer in 3D-integrated liquid cooling of electronic chip stacks

A Renfer, MK Tiwari, R Tiwari, F Alfieri… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
The cooling of three-dimensional electronic chip assemblies (stacks) is one of the most
serious challenges facing the electronics industry as it moves toward fabrication approaches …

The flow past large numbers of cylinders in tandem

N Hosseini, MD Griffith, JS Leontini - Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
The present study investigates the flow in a multi-cylinder tandem array. A primary aim is to
build a framework for understanding the flow as the number of cylinders becomes large. Two …

Flow around six in-line square cylinders

CM Sewatkar, R Patel, A Sharma… - Journal of fluid …, 2012 - cambridge.org
The flow around six in-line square cylinders has been studied numerically and
experimentally for and, where is the surface-to-surface distance between two cylinders, is …

Wake transitions of six tandem circular cylinders at low Reynolds numbers

H Eizadi, H An, T Zhou, H Zhu, L Cheng - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Direct numerical simulations for flow over six tandem circular cylinders at Reynolds numbers
(R e) from 40 to 180 and gap ratios (⁠ G/D⁠) from 0.5 to 18 were conducted. The main aims …