Three-dimensional flows over impulsively translated low-aspect-ratio flat plates are investigated for Reynolds numbers of 300 and 500, with a focus on the unsteady vortex dynamics at post-stall angles of attack. Numerical simulations, validated by an oil tow-tank experiment, are performed to study the influence of aspect ratio, angle of attack and planform geometry on the wake vortices and the ...

This paper develops a semi-empirical expression for heat transfer in round tube plain fin heat exchangers that have relatively large fin pitch. Empirical heat transfer correlations currently available in the public domain are necessarily limited in their range of applicability, and their functional forms are generally not designed to converge to well-known physical results, for example when par...

The interference of the direct wave from the point source to the receiver and the wave reflected from the impedance ground in a turbulent atmosphere is studied. A parabolic equation approach for calculating the sound pressure p at the receiver is formulated. Then, the parabolic equation is solved by the Rytov method yielding expressions for the complex phases of direct and ground-reflected wave...

[1] Boundary layer turbulence plays a central role in determining the strength of the overall atmospheric circulation by affecting the intensity of exchange of heat, mass, and momentum at the Earth’s surface. It is often parameterized using the bulk formula, in which the vonKarman parameter plays a critical role. Here we conducted a range of sensitivity simulations with an atmospheric general c...

Three types of analyses are combined to investigate the effect of missing fibers in periodic continuous fiber composites that are subjected to thermomechanical loadings. The representative cell method is employed in the first analysis for the construction of Green’s functions elastic fields for the fiber–matrix interfacial jumps problem. As a result, the infinite domain problem is reduced, in c...

The aim of this article is to study the dynamic Von-Karman model coupledwith thermoelastic equations without rotational terms, subject a thermal dissipation. We establish existence as well uniqueness weak solution related model. At end, we apply finite difference method for approximating our problem.

A stochastic model is derived to predict the turbulent torque produced by a swirling flow. It is a simple Langevin process, with a colored noise. Using the unified colored noise approximation, we derive analytically the PDF of the fluctuations of injected power in two forcing regimes: constant angular velocity or constant applied torque. In the limit of small velocity fluctuations and vanishing...

This paper proposes a method of controlling the vortex-induced vibration (VIV) wind turbine towers by adding continuous trapezoidal straight spoiler plates (TS) onto their outer surface: fluid–solid coupling model was constructed to simulate processes Karman vortex generation and shedding on different surfaces an original tower (O–tower) with TS (TS–tower) assumed actual Re, while VIV frequenci...