Coronary stent design affects the spatial distribution of wall shear stress (WSS), which can influence the progression of endothelialization, neointimal hyperplasia, and restenosis. Previous computational fluid dynamics (CFD) studies have only examined a small number of possible geometries to identify stent designs that reduce alterations in near-wall hemodynamics. Based on a previously describ...

The Galerkin projection method based on modes generated by the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) technique is very popular for the dimensional reduction of linearized Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models, among many other typically high-dimensional models in computational engineering. This, despite the fact that it cannot guarantee neither the optimality nor the stability of the Reduce...

Impressive progress in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been made during the last three decades. In the early stages, one of the main targets of CFD for aeronautical fields was to compute flow around airfoils and wings accurately. Body-fitted-coordinate grids, commonly called as structured grids, were used in those days. From the late eighty’s, the target was moved to full aircraft comput...

This paper presents the CFD modeling methodology and validation for steady-state, normal operation in a PWR fuel assembly. This work is part of a program that is developing a CFD methodology for modeling and predicting single-phase and two-phase flow conditions downstream of structural grids that have mixing devices. The purpose of the mixing devices (mixing vanes in this case) is to increase t...

A parallel CFD code capable of simulating flow within moving boundaries is coupled to a beam element structural dynamics code. The coupled codes are used to simulate fluid-structure interaction for a class of applications involving long and slender structures, e.g., suspension bridges and offshore risers. Due to the difference in size and dimensionality of the 3D CFD problem on one side, and th...

Plate fin-tube heat exchangers are used extensively in heating, ventilating, and air conditioning, process engineering, and refrigeration systems. They have a high degree of surface compactness. Substantial heat transfer enhancement is obtained as a result of the periodic starting and development of boundary layers over interrupted channels formed by the fins and their dissipation in the fin wa...