Aiming at complex labyrinth-channel emitters’ structure and the practical problem of clogging, this paper investigates the practical flow of water, mixed with sand escaped from filtering, in the labyrinth channel. CFD analysis has been performed on liquid-solid two-phase flow in labyrinthchannel emitters. Based on micro-PIV (particle image velocimetry) flow visualization technology, the flow in...

introduction:visualization of inner ear structures is a valuable strategy for researchers and clinicians working on hearing pathologies. optical coherence tomography (oct) is a high-resolution imaging technology which may be used for the visualization of tissues. in this experimental study we aimed to evaluate inner ear anatomy in well-prepared human labyrinthine bones.materials and methods:thr...

On a stepped spillway, the steps contribute to some dissipation of the turbulent kinetic energy, while free-surface aeration can be very intense. The aim of this study is to investigate the two-phase flow properties on a gabion stepped spillway, including both free-surface and seepage flows, as well as the bubbly flow interactions at the gabion interface. Detailed measurements were conducted in...

Labyrinth seals are used in turbo-machinery for reducing the leakage of working fluid. The energy lost by the fluid passing through the gap between labyrinth seal and rotor causes the reduction in leakage rate. But the fluid in between the labyrinth seal and rotor induce various forces (radial and tangential forces). These forces can be represented by certain numbers of coefficients, such as st...

A particularly simple and mathematically elegant example of chaos in a threedimensional flow is examined in detail. It has the property of cyclic symmetry with respect to interchange of the three orthogonal axes, a single bifurcation parameter that governs the damping and the attractor dimension over most of the range 2 to 3 (as well as 0 and 1) and whose limiting value b = 0 gives Hamiltonian ...

The present paper investigates the effects of the trapezoidal teeth labyrinth seal on the leakage amount in gas turbines. The influences of increasing the number of teeth from 1 to 6 with step 1 and the tip clearance s=0.5 to 7.5 mm on the leakage flow at different pressure ratios of PR=1.5, 2 and 2.5 are examined, comprehensively. The analysis is performed numerically using a Finite-Volume...

Abstract Important water structures known as stepped spillways are used to dissipate energy, aerate rivers, and reduce the cost of downstream pool. The aim this study is increase energy dissipation rate by proposing an alternative design flat spillways, which frequently in practice. For that reason, Circular Stepped Spillway (CSS) has been constructed numerically investigated paper. CSS spillwa...

Run-of-river hydropower plants usually lack significant storage capacity; therefore, the more adequate control strategy would consist of keeping a constant water level at the intake pond in order to harness the maximum amount of energy from the river flow or to reduce the surface flooded in the head pond. In this paper, a standard PI control system of a run-of-river diversion hydropower plant w...

Introduction Piano Key weirs (PKWs) are a hydraulically attractive alternative to linear overflow weirs, increasing the unit discharge at the unregulated spillway inlet for similar heads and spillway widths. This advantage, allowing for operation of dam reservoirs on elevated supply levels thus providing an increased retention volume, is a result of the non-linear nature of PKWs being folded ba...

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