designing and optimization of the intake manifold is one of the important steps in the development of the internal combustion engines. in this paper, the flow inside the intake manifold of an internal combustion engine is investigated by numerical modeling. the convective flux models are adopted to simulate the unsteady compressible flow behavior. to solve the governing equations, for calculati...

a subsurface drainage network mainly carries unsteady flow and data are not usually available for model parameters calibration in such networks. in the present research, the finite volume method using the time splitting scheme was employed to develop a computer code for solving the one dimensional unsteady flow equations. using corrugated sub drainage pipes, an experimental prototype setup was ...

Details of pressure distributions, on a two dimensional airfoil oscillating in pitch through stall, in a 0.8 0.8 m low-speed wind tunnel are presented. Pitching occurred about the airfoils quarter-chord axis. Pitch rate, Reynolds number, and oscillation amplitudes were varied to determine the effects on pressure and lift distributions. It was found that mean angle of attack and pitching amplitu...

In the present paper a study of the time dependent transonic flow field around a single compressor blade in a Laval nozzle is presented. For the investigation the PIV method has been employed because of its ability to deliver instantaneous flow field information across an illuminated plane with high spatial and temporal resolution. From these instantaneous PIV measurements the mean velocity fie...

The unsteady, incompressible boundary layer flow caused by an impulsively stretching surface under the influence of a transverse magnetic field is investigated. The partial differential equations governing the laminar flow, under boundary-layer approximations, are non-dimensionalised using similarity transformations and then solved numerically using an efficient, implicit finite-difference sche...

eunsteady slip-flow of second grade non-newtonian electrically conducting fluid over an oscillating sheet has been considered and solved numerically. a second-order slip velocity model is used to predict the flow characteristic over the wall. with the assumption of infinite length in the x-direction, the velocity of the fluid can be assumed as a function of y and t, hence, with proper change va...

A tidal bore is an unsteady rapidly-varied free-surface flow generated by the rapid rise in water elevation during the early flood tide, when the tidal range exceeds 4.5 to 6 m and the channel bathymetry amplifies the flood tidal wave. This study describes a detailed field investigation conducted in the Garonne River (France). The tidal bore was undular on 19 October 2013 and the bore front was...

Negative surges can be caused by a sudden change in flow resulting from a decrease in water depth. In the present study, some physical experiments were conducted in a rectangular channel to characterize the unsteady free-surface profile and longitudinal velocity beneath a negative surge propagating upstream. The physical observations showed that, during the first initial instants, the celerity ...

Our understanding of how variable wind in natural environments affects flying insects is limited because most studies of insect flight are conducted in either smooth flow or still air conditions. Here, we investigate the effects of structured, unsteady flow (the von Karman vortex street behind a cylinder) on the flight performance of bumblebees (Bombus impatiens). Bumblebees are 'all-weather' f...

The results from two numerical simulations of the unsteady flow in a 1-1/2 stage axial-flow turbine are presented and compared with experimental data to show both the effect of blade count on the solution accuracy and the time-averaged and unsteady flow physics present. The TFLO three-dimensional, multi-block, massively parallel turbomachinery flow solution procedure is used to simulate the flo...