The skin friction on a surface is a major concern by engineers. It is widely accepted that turbulent flow has higher friction than laminar flow due to the higher mixing in boundary layer. However, our new high order DNS found that the high friction is generated in a laminar zone in a transitional flow. Whenever the small length scales are generated, the velocity shear becomes very large in the ...

A generic microfluidic system composed by two single chamber valveless micropumps connected to a simple T-type channel intersection is examined numerically. The characteristics of a feasible valveless micropump have been used in the design, where efficient mixing is produced due to the pulsating flow generated by the micropumps. The advantages of using time pulsing inlet flows for enhancing mix...

  This study compared the use of interpersonal and mass media channels of communication among rural farmers in Kogi State, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to describe the socio economic characteristics of the farmers, determine the influence of socioeconomic characteristics on the usage of interpersonal and media channels, ascertain farmers’ level of awareness of interpersonal and media c...

Variable inlet guide vanes (VIGVs) are widely used for flow throttling and also extending the operating range of centrifugal compressors. Although there several studies on effects adding IGVs performance curve compressors, none them have focused number vanes. In current study, high-fidelity three-dimensional numerical simulations carried out to analyze VIGVs with different aerodynamic a single-...

bivariate features, obtained from multichannel electroencephalogram (eeg) recordings, quantify the relation between different brain regions. studies based on bivariate features have shown optimistic results for tackling epileptic seizure prediction problem in patients suffering from refractory epilepsy. a new bivariate approach using univariate features is proposed here. differences and ratios ...

This paper illustrates the mechanism of U-shaped vortex formation which is found both by experiment and DNS. The main goal of this paper is to explain how the U-shaped vortex is formed and further develops. According to the results obtained by our direct numerical simulation with high order accuracy, the U-shaped vortex is part of the coherent vortex structure and is actually the tertiary strea...

A numerical investigation was conducted to study the heat transfer in an aircraft cabin and the effects of air distribution under different angle and inlet velocity conditions. The Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations and the low Reynolds number turbulence model were used to simulate the airflow in the cabin. Mathematical statistics was used to process the relevant data, and statistical re...