Recent experiments at Princeton University have revealed aspects of smooth pipe flow behaviour that suggest a more complex scaling than previously noted. In particular, the pressure gradient results yield a new friction factor relationship for smooth pipes, and the velocity profiles indicate the presence of a power-law region near the wall and, for Reynolds numbers greater than about 400x103 (R...

The paper describes KURT, an autonomous robot platform prototype that is able to navigate through a network of sewage pipes. KURT is a six-wheeled vehicle; it has modular, layered hardware and control architectures. Its sensor connguration consists mainly of stationary and one exible ultrasound transducers and of two inclinometers. In experiments run in a test sewerage system consisting of conc...

the intension in this work is to investigate the effect of different bending manifold pipes on engine performance for different engine speed. Power, Torque, and BSFC were calculated and presented to show the effect of varying bending pipes angles on them for all cases considered. A special program used to carry out the calculations. A simulation model for 4-cylinders spark ignition engine with ...

We focus on the detection and classification of sewer pipe junctions during the initial survey stage of a 'soft' lnsituform lining process. Estimates are obtained of the diameter and orientation of interconnecting lateral pipes: smaller diameter pipes that join the main sewer from the side. These estimates are compared to a set of likely values of each and the member of this set closest to the ...

In this tutorial the fundamentals of non-boiling heat transfer in two-phase twocomponent gas-liquid flow in pipes are presented. The techniques used for the determination of the different gas-liquid flow patterns (flow regimes) in vertical, horizontal, and inclined pipes are reviewed. The validity and limitations of the numerous heat transfer correlations that have been published in the literat...

Autonomous vehicles will not be driven by a human being. The missing of the human being will make the vehicles less inspected because a human being often listens to the engine and its sounds. A passenger in an autonomous vehicle usually does other things and even sleeps, so the human inspection on the engine and on the pipes system will not be effective. This paper suggests a system that alerts...