Corrosion can be affected by flow differently depending on the mechanism governing the corrosion process. Two major cases can be distinguished: the effect of flow on corrosion when no surface films are present and the effect of flow on corrosion in the presence of surface films (precipitates, inhibitors, etc.). In the absence of films, the primary effect of flow on corrosion is through mass tra...

As the authors have demonstrated recently, application of the method of matched asymptotic expansions allows for a self-consistent description of a Turbulent Boundary Layer (TBL) under the action of an adverse pressure gradient, where the latter is controlled such that it may undergo marginal separation. In that new theory, the basic limit process considered is provided by the experimentally ob...

We consider an optimal shape design problem of periodically distributed three-dimensional microstructures on surfaces of swimming bodies in order to reduce their drag. Our model is restricted to the flow in the viscous sublayer of the boundary layer of a turbulent flow. There the flow is described by the incompressible steady-state Navier-Stokes equation with a Couette Flow profile. Because of ...

With recent developments in terrestrial wireless networks and advances in acoustic communications, multichannel technologies have been proposed to be used in underwater networks to increase data transmission rate over bandwidth-limited underwater channels. Due to high bit error rates in underwater networks, an efficient error control technique is critical in the logical link control (LLC) subla...

The hypocretin-orexin (hcrt-orx) neurons are thought to maintain wakefulness because their loss results in narcolepsy. This role may be fulfilled by the excitatory action that the hcrt-orx peptide exerts on multiple brainstem and forebrain systems that, in turn, promote cortical activation. Here, we examined whether hcrt-orx may also exert a postsynaptic excitatory action at the level of the co...

The combined effect of both concentration and pressure differences on electrical potential (Ad~) for two ion-exchanger membranes, one positively charged (AE) and another negatively charged (CE), measured with the membranes in contact with NaCI solutions was studied. Results show a linear dependence between Adp and pressure, independently if AC and AP have the same or opposite directions. The ra...

Most of the existing wall heat transfer models employed for in-cylinder flow simulations are not capable of predicting the history and peak value of the heat flux. More comprehensive models that account for density and property variations rely mainly on the standard or low-Reynolds number variants of k-ε turbulence model. Presently applied mesh resolutions already allow for first near-wall comp...

T. Tsuji Y. Nagano Department of Mechanical Engineering Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan l lA turbulent natural convection boundary layer along a vertical flat plate in air is investigated with hot-wire techniques. Profile measurements of mean velocity, mean temperature, and turbulent quantities, which are obtained well into the wall region, clarify some characteristics peculiar to...

This investigation characterises the time response and transient turbulence dynamics undergone by rapidly decelerating turbulent pipe flows. A series of direct numerical simulations flows between two steady Reynolds numbers were conducted for this purpose. The statistical analyses reveal that undergo four coherent, unambiguous transitional stages: inertial (stage I), a dramatic change sign in v...