tip leakage loss introduces major part of losses of the rotor in axial gas turbines. therefore, the rotor blade tip has a considerable effect on rotor efficiency. to understand the flow physics of the rotor tip leakage, we solve the flow field for different tip platforms (passive flow control) and by considering coolant tip injection (active flow control). various blade tip configurations such ...

A volume-penalizing immersed boundary method is presented that facilitates the computation of incompressible fluid flow in complex flow domains. We apply this method to simulate the flow in cerebral aneurysms, and focus on the accuracy with which the flow field and the corresponding shear stress field are computed. The method is applied to laminar, incompressible flow in curved cylindrical vess...

The permeability of coal is a critical parameter in estimating the performance of coal reservoirs. Darcy’s law describes the flow pattern that the permeability has a linear relationship with the flow velocity. However, the stress induced deformation and damage can significantly influence the gas flow pattern and permeability of coal. Coals from Songzao coalfield in Chongqing, southwest China we...

introduction:patients with the coronary slow flow phenomenon (scf) frequently experience angina episodes. the purpose of this study was to determine efficacy of nicorandil in myocardial perfusion in patients with scf. methods: twenty patients (50.85 ± 12.96 y) with scf were studied.  we evaluate coronary slow flow according to protracted thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (timi) frame count....

In a recent letter, Govaert et al. examined the relationship between strain hardening modulus Gr and flow stress σflow for five different glassy polymers. In each case, results forGr at different strain rates or different temperatures are linearly related to the flow stress. They noted that this linear relation is different than a simple proportionality between Gr and σflow, which they claimed ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Computational fluid dynamics modeling is useful in the study of the hemodynamic environment of cerebral aneurysms, but patient-specific measurements of boundary conditions, such as blood flow velocity and pressure, have not been previously applied to the study of flow-diverting stents. We integrated patient-specific intravascular blood flow velocity and pressure measureme...

This review is based on recently published data from our laboratory. We investigated the role of hypertension and laminar flow, hypercholesterolemia and laminar flow and turbulent blood flow/low wall shear stress, and turbulent blood flow/low wall shear stress associated with hypercholesterolemia on aorta remodeling of rats feeding normal diet or hypercholesterolemic diet. Our findings suggest ...