The stepped channel design have been used since more than 3,000 years. It is understood that low flows behave as successions of free-jets (i.e. nappe flow) while large discharges skim over the pseudo-bottom formed by the step edges. For a range of intermediate flow rates, a transition flow regime takes place. The dominant feature is stagnation on the horizontal step face associated with signifi...

Please cite this article in press as: M. Sankar et a Mass Transfer (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016 Double-diffusive convection in a vertical annulus filled with a fluid-saturated porous medium is numerically investigated with the aim to understand the effects of a discrete source of heat and solute on the fluid flow and heat and mass transfer rates. The porous annulus is subject to heat and m...

An experimental study was carried out to obtain the mean convective heat transfer coefficient of aqueous carboximethyl cellulose (CMC) solutions in double-pipe heat <span style="font-size: 10pt; color:...

in this paper, the effects of baffle on thermal characteristics of combined convection-radiation heat transfer in laminar flow adjacent to an inclined backward facing step (bfs) in a horizontal duct are investigated. a baffle is mounted on the top wall of channel downstream side of step. in this study, the fluid is treated as a gray, absorbing, emitting and scattering medium; therefore, in the ...

This work aims to study the different characteristics of Newtonian fluid flow and heat transfer througha 1:3 sudden expansion channel with or without plane baffles using finite volume method. The flowis assumed viscous, incompressible, steady, laminar. hydro-thermalfluid phenomena have been studied for

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the linear stability analysis for laminar-turbulent transition region high-Reynolds-number instabilities boundary layer flow on a rotating disk. This investigation considers axial along surface-normal direction, by studying analytical expressions steady solution, laminar, incompressible and inviscid fluid due disk in presence uniform injection suction...

using of nanofluids and ducts with corrugated walls are both supposed to enhance heat transfer, by increasing the heat transfer fluid conductivity and the heat transfer area respectively. use of a diverging duct with a jet at inlet section may further increase heat transfer by creating recirculation zones inside the duct. in this work two-dimensional incompressible laminar flow of a nanofluid e...

Micro-scaled Coiled Flow Inverter (MCFI) is a scaled down version of a Coiled Flow Inverter (CFI) which utilizes the principle of flow inversion for process intensification. MCFI is constructed with tubing less than 1.0mm. The microfluidic nature of MCFI caused by low Reynolds number (Re) laminar flow posed as a challenge to achieve effective mixing. Simulation was implemented with Computationa...

In present work, the time independent laminar flow of a viscous, incompressible fluid in two dimensions flow has been studied. The fluid had been allowed to flow in a channel with an obstruction which was a rectangular plate of definite dimensions. The flow of water had been considered to be steady with uniform incident velocity with various boundary conditions. The resulting NavierStokes equat...

In this work a mathematical model is developed for measuring orientation of red blood cells in magnetic field and governing the bio-magnetic fluid flow is presented for the viscous, two-dimensional, incompressible and laminar time dependent heat transfer flow is considered. Expressions describing the variation of the saturation magnetization of the fluid with temperature or the magnetic field i...