In this paper, a diffuse-interface immersed boundary method (IBM) is proposed to treat three different thermal boundary conditions (Dirichlet, Neumann, Robin) in thermal flow problems. The novel IBM is implemented combining with the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). The present algorithm enforces the three types of thermal boundary conditions at the boundary points. Concretely speaking, the IBM f...

The numerical modeling of a 2D flow around a horizontal cylinder near a rigid bed with the gap ratios G/D = 0, 0.2, 0.3 at Reynolds numbers 840, 4500, 9000, and 9500 is investigated by using weakly compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics. The velocity field and the separation angles from the present simulations are compared with those obtained from the experimental measurements and are in ...

Horizontal cylinders floating on liquid surfaces are mundanely observed, whose examples include the legs of aquatic arthropods and floating larvae, twigs and hairs. We study the force and energy required to lift the cylinder clear from the water surface, to evaluate the role of wettability, especially superhydrophobicity, in the adhesion of floating cylinders. We find that a drastic degree of e...

Abstract In this paper a numerical study of natural convection stationary laminar heat transfers in horizontal ring between heated square inner cylinder and cold elliptical outer is presented. A Cu-water nanofluid flows through annular space. Different values the Rayleigh number volume fraction nanoparticles are studied. The system equations governing problem was solved numerically by fluent ca...

Article history: Received 9 January 2007 Received in revised form 26 November 2007 Accepted 7 April 2008 Available online 11 April 2008

This paper presents the results of experimental work carried out to evaluate the distribution of cold and hot exhaust gas recirculation between cylinders in a DI diesel engine. The experiments have been conducted on a 3.99 liters turbocharged DI diesel engine under full load condition at 1900rpm in order to distinguish and quantify some effects of hot and cooled EGR with various rates on the EG...

A Stewart platform has been designed by selecting commercially available components. Each of its six legs has spherical and universal joints respectively at the bottom and top ends of a piston-cylinder arrangement with the piston rod protruding out of the cylinder top. By a universal joint at the cap end at the bottom of each cylinder, the legs are mounted on a fixed horizontal frame. By electr...

In this numerical contribution, hybrid nanofluid flow behavior, thermal characteristics, and entropy generation analysis through a porous enclosure containing three circular cylinders with magnetic field effects were investigated using finite element approach. The are arranged in horizontal arrangement the middle of cavity height, active hot central cylinder can move along vertical axis while o...

For the characteristics of horizontal fractures in shallow low-permeability oil layers after hydraulic fracturing in multilayer reservoirs, horizontal fractures are taken equivalent to an elliptical cylinder with the reservoir thickness using the equivalent permeability model; then, upon the elliptic seepage theory, the seepage field which has led by a vertical well with horizontal fractures is...