We have applied particle tracking techniques to obtain spatially resolved velocity measurements in electrokinetic flow devices. Both micrometer-resolution particle image velocimetry (micro-PMV) and particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) techniques have been used to quantify and study flow phenomena in electrokinetic systems applicable to microfluidic bioanalytical devices. To make the flow measure...

Erosion rates were measured along the length of a tubular flow cell of type 304 (UNS S30400) stainless steel (SS) carrying dilute slurries of silica sand (0.43 mm diam) and smooth glass beads of a similar size. The segmented test cell contained a sudden constriction, a sudden expansion, and a groove to produce disturbed flow conditions. Erosion rates were reduced by changes in the cell wall geo...

    Given the need to increase the efficiency of heat transfer in thermal systems, especially systems using nanofluids in microscale and nanoscale heat transfer equipment ideas to improve their performance is very good.In present study, the flow and heat transfer of Water-Cu nanofluid in micro-tube with slip regime with constant wall heat flux numerically simulated with low Reynolds numbers. Sl...

Erosion caused by sand transportation in flow changing devices is a serious concern in the hydrocarbon and mineral processing industry, which entail to failure and malfunction of flow devices. In this study, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with discrete phase models (DPM) were employed for analysis of carbon steel long radius 90-Degree elbow erosion due to the sand concentration of 2, 5 and ...

Abstract We describe a user-friendly, open source software for single-particle detection/counting in continuous-flow. The tool automatically processes video images of particles, including pre-conditioning, followed by size-based discrimination independent detection fluorescent and non-fluorescent particles different sizes. This is done interactive tuning reduced set parameters that can be check...

The gas flow of aerosol deposition method (ADM) is simulated using the method of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and the velocity of particles flowing in the gas flow is also calculated by numerically integrating Newton’s second law of motion. The process gas is nitrogen and the particle material is Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT). The calculated particle velocities are compared with experimental results...

The complexity of the coupling between soft particle deformation and fluid perturbation has limited studies of soft particle hydrodynamics to dilute suspensions. A hybrid Brownian dynamics-lattice Boltzmann method is presented that models nondilute soft spherical deformable particle (DP) suspensions in flow. Dependences on particle size and density are investigated for suspensions with over 100...

The wavelet transform is applied to experimental pressure fluctuations in swirling gas-particle two-phase flows in this paper, to identify and interpret flow pattern transitions in both Fourier and physical spaces. From randomlike pressure fluctuations the characteristic of swirling gas-particle twophase flows can be extracted, and the relationship between the wall pressure fluctuation and the ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the in-scan and scan-rescan consistency of left ventricular (LV) in- and outflow assessment from 1) 2D planimetry; 2) 4D flow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with retrospective valve tracking, and 3) 4D flow MRI with particle tracing. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ten healthy volunteers (age 27 ± 3 years) underwent multislice cine short-axis planimetry and whole-heart 4D flow MRI...