The experimental apparatus was composed of a water circulation system, an air supply system, a test section and a measurement system~ Air and water were used as working fluids. . The test section was a vertical rectangular channel of 10mmxlOOmmx700mm made of Plexiglas as shown in Fig.l. The measuremen.t system consisted of the UVP and a personal computer to record and treat data. Water was fed ...

The idealized raked-wedge hull has a triangular waterplane with its base of finite beam at the transom stern and its apex of zero beam at the stem of the bow. The sections are rectangular and the draft increases linearly from zero at the stern to the maximum draft at the bow. This hullform provides a challenge for the traditional linear wave-making theory. Nevertheless, there is good agreement ...

This paper deals with EDF Research and Development work for ERDF needs in terms of energy efficiency, focused on Amorphous Metal Distribution Transformers (AMDT). Many prototypes built on METGLAS® 2605SA1, rated 250 to 630 kVA from different manufacturers, were tested under short-circuit conditions according to IEC and ERDF standards. Some of the prototypes exceeded the accepted value of 4% of ...

A numerical and experimental study is performed on transient natural convection in an insulated rectangular tank. The liquid is suddenly heated by a line source or cooled by a line sink being placed at the center of the free surface to initiate a thermocapillary force. Evaporation or condensation takes place on the free surface. A finite-difference technique is employed to numerically integrate...

When fluid in a rectangular tank sits upon a platform which is oscillating with sufficient amplitude, surface waves appear in the "Faraday resonance." Scientists and engineers have done bifurcation analyses which assume that there is a center manifold theory using a finite number of excited spatial modes. We establish such a center manifold theorem for Xiao-Biao Lin’s model in which potential f...

Experimental and theoretical models are used to explore the break of a moraine dam by catastrophic erosional incision initiated by overtopping with a displacement wave. The experiments are conducted in a rectangular tank with an erodible barrier made from sand and grit. Theory combines shallow-water hydrodynamics with an empirical model of erosion. The models confirm that dams can be broken by ...

The heat transfer characteristics of a downhole heat exchanger (DHE) were studied experimentally in a laboratory scale. The permeable aquifer was simulated by using a rectangular tank filled with glass beads of diameter ranging from 3 to 5 mm. The downhole heat exchanger was modeled by a Ushaped copper tube. We have simulated various configurations of DHE by changing the geometrical parameters ...

In this investigation the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations are modified to account for variable density and viscosity of the two-fluids flow (i.e. water-air), assuming both fluids compressible. By introducing a preconditioner, the governing equations in terms of primitive variables are solved for both fluids in a unified manner. The non-conservative implicit Split Coefficient Ma...