The flow-induced deformation of a membrane in a flow is studied using experimental and computational approaches in a configuration that represents the effect of the aerodynamic load on a convertible car roof. The computational method couples a commercial computational fluid dynamics code with an in-house structural code to predict membrane deformation. A converged statically deformed state, wit...

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Impacts of absorbing biomass burning aerosol on the climate of southern Africa: a Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory GCM sensitivity study C. A. Randles and V. Ramaswamy Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA now at: Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, Universi...

The objective of this paper is to optimize defrost/demist performance in a vehicle. However, to initiate the problem, it is necessary to have a thorough understanding of flow behavior within the compartment. So a full-scale model of passenger compartment has been modeled and the air stream from very near to the windshield up to back of the compartment has been analyzed applying computational fl...

When coupling computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with a detailed thermal comfort model describing the human thermoregulation, the characteristics of the micro-climate of the human body have to be known. In the paper, CFD has been applied to investigate human body’’s micro climate. A climate chamber equipped with a thermal manikin has been used to validate the CFD simulations against measurement...

A two-dimensional circulation model has been used to test the hypothesis of whether the observed lowfrequency current variations in the central Gulf of Riga, Baltic Sea, can be explained by basin-scale topographic wave response. A comparison of two-dimensional model results with measurements from a single current meter in the gulf showed good correlation. More sophisticated three-dimensional ba...