this paper presents the effect of high viscosity oil and two-phase foamy-oil flow on the performance of a single stage centrifugal pump. as a part of this, the applicability of a pipe viscometer to determine the foamy oil viscosity is investigated. unlike previous studies, a sealed fluid tank is used in a closed flow loop to allow conditioning the two-phase mixture to create foamy-oil. furtherm...

in recent years, biodiesel has been considered as a good alternative of diesel fuels. density and viscosity are two important properties of these fuels. in this study, density and kinematic viscosity of biodiesel-diesel blends were estimated by using artificial neural network (ann). a three-layer feed forward neural network with levenberg-marquard (lm) algorithm was used for learning empirical ...

Background: Hazardous chemical agents in the welding operation are a mixture of metal fumes and toxic gases, the inhalation of which causes adverse health effects among welders. The emission of gases in the workplace is a logical cause for concern regarding the potential development of respiratory disease. The aim of the present study was to determine the concentration values of gases discharge...

the present investigation entails a procedure by which the surface tension and viscosity of liquids could be redicted.to this end, capillary experiments were performed for porous media by utilizing fifteen different liquids and powders. the time of capillary rise to a certain known height of each liquid in a particular powder was recorded. two artificial neural networks (anns) were designed and...

A method is presented for capturing shock discontinuities appearing in elastic and plastic solids. The approach is based on a Lagrangian finite element formulation for solids undergoing large, possibly plastic, deformations and a formulation of artificial viscosity. The proposed artificial viscosity method is formulated at the constitutive level and, therefore, independent of the dimension of s...

As the glass transition is approached from the high temperature side, viewed as a liquid, the properties of the ever more viscous supercooled liquid are continuous functions of temperature and pressure. The point at which we decide to classify the fluid as a solid is therefore subjective. This subjective decision does, however, have discontinuous consequences for how we determine the rheologica...

greenhouse gases have been of serious global concern to environmentalists. enteric ruminal fermentation and manure are seen to be responsible for global warming. based on a better understanding of positive tan-nin effects on ruminant nutrition, the feeding value of browse trees and shrubs containing tannin, their roles on methanogenic rumen microbes in overcoming the production of enteric ferme...

To maintain local pH levels near the electrode during electrochemical reactions, the use of buffer solutions is effective. Nevertheless, the critical effects of the buffer concentration on electrocatalytic performances have not been discussed in detail. In this study, two fundamental electrochemical reactions, oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR), on a platinum ...

Multibubblesonoluminescence (MBSL) emission spectra at different forcing frequencies ( 20, 580, 850 KHz and 1.1 MHz) in Sulphuric acid and Phosphoric acid, under different noble gases atmosphere ( Ar, Xe and He) have been investigated. Using lower frequency we observed the presence of new emissions lines which may indicate the formation of ionized species with very high energy level inside the ...

The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is a numerical simplification of the Boltzmann equation of the kinetic theory of gases that describes fluid motions by tracking the evolution of the particle velocity distribution function based on linear streaming with nonlinear collision. If the Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook (BGK) collision model is invoked, the velocity distribution function in this mesoscopic desc...