With the world’s growing demand for energy, renewable energy production has become important in providing alternative sources of and reducing greenhouse effect. This study investigates aerodynamics performance WG/EV100 micro–Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The complexity VAWT aerodynamics, which is inherently unsteady three-dimensional, makes high-f...

Investors widely use contracts for difference (CFDs) to leverage and short sell underlying financial assets. We investigate the after cost performance of investors in Australian Securities Exchange listed share CFDs, and find that market order CFD trades earn small positive returns at the daily horizon, with negative returns reported for one month to one year horizons due to financing costs. Ma...

Evolution Strategies are global, direct optimisation algorithms, which have proven their efficiency in engineering applications for a large number of industrial applications. In this paper, the basic algorithm and some of its recent variants for design optimisation are presented. In addition, we give an overview of applications and a comparison to other optimisation algorithms. As an example we...

Recommended Citation Shrestha, Liza. "CFD study on effect of branch sizes in human coronary artery." MS

BACKGROUND Intimal hyperplasia (IH) is a major cause of graft failure. Hemodynamic factors such as stagnation and disturbed blood flow are involved in IH formation. The aim of this study is to perform a comparative analysis of distal-end side-to-side (deSTS) and end-to-side (ETS) anastomoses using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) after validating the results via particle image velocimetry (PI...

This work focuses on the development of a multiscale computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation framework with application to plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition of thin film solar cells. A macroscopic, CFD model is proposed which is capable of accurately reproducing plasma chemistry and transport phenomena within a 2D axisymmetric reactor geometry. Additionally, the complex interactio...

This paper presents a short review of the applications of CFD to indoor environment design and studies, and briefly introduces the most popular CFD models used. The paper concludes that, although CFD is a powerful tool for indoor environment design and studies, a standard procedure must be followed so that the CFD program and user can be validated and the CFD results can be trusted. The procedu...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether virtual surgery performed on 3-dimensional (3D) nasal airway models can predict postsurgical, biophysical parameters obtained by computational fluid dynamics (CFD). METHODS Presurgery and postsurgery computed tomographic scans of a patient undergoing septoplasty and right inferior turbinate reduction (ITR) were used to generate 3D models of the nasal airway. Prio...

OBJECTIVES To use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for evaluating and understanding the performance of the high-dose disposable Twincer™ dry powder inhaler, as well as to learn the effect of design modifications on dose entrainment, powder dispersion and retention behaviour. METHODS Comparison of predicted flow and particle behaviour from CFD computations with experimental data obtained wit...