Considering the numerous applications of the study of the flow due to leakage in a buried pipe in unsaturated porous media, finding a proper model to explain the influence of the effective factors is of great importance.There are various important factors involved in this type of flow such as: pipe leakage size and location, burial depth, the degree of the saturation of the surrounding porous m...

in this work, three-dimensional turbulent forced convection flow through a b-type section pipe, which porous material inserted at the bottom wall, is investigated numerically. the b-type section pipe are used in cooling systems, such as cars’ radiators. the main purpose of this research is to enhance heat transfer and to reduce the scales of such systems. the governing equations are formulated ...

introduction: maintaining soil moisture content at about field capacity and reducing water loss in near root zone plays a key role for developing soil and water management programs. clay pot or porous pipe is a traditional sub-irrigation method and is ideal for many farms in the world’s dry land with small and medium sized farms and gardens and is still used limitedly in dry lands of india, ira...

recently, the use of renewable energies has increased to  environmental pollution, limitation of fossil energy resources and energy security  one of the means that enable us to use such energies is fuel cells (fc). however, there are many problems  in the commercialization of fc from an economically and operation perspective. one of the most important problems is heat management. new heat pipes...

In this paper we have developed a model for two dimensional motion of a steady MHD flow through circular pipe which is bounded by a porous medium in presence of applied magnetic field. We have considered Brinkman equation for the flow through porous media using approximate boundary conditions the governing equation have been solved and solution for velocity in both the cases with porous media h...

We present a novel micro-heat pipe wick design and fabrication technique to significantly boost the effective thermal conductivity of the heat pipe relative to the monolithic substrate material. Extensive porous flow modeling of the process has provided critical information on the key parameters and the resulting anisotropic wick designs have shown robust performance improvements. A methanol ch...

SuperCritical Water Oxidation (SCWO) process is investigated at the Institut of Technical Chemistry, ITC-CPV. The objectives were to determine destruction efficiencies of model compounds and industrial waste effluents and to study the feasability of the SCWO process. Two continuous SCWO bench scale plants are operated: a pipe reactor and a transpiring wall reactor system (design data: T = 630 °...

In this paper we present a hybrid model for coupling of biofilm growth and hydrodynamic flow in a pipe. A cellular automata model, which is a discrete model, is used to describe the growth of biofilm. This stochastic discrete model is coupled with a continuum model of the fluid flow in a pipe. The potential applications of the proposed model are the flow in drinking water pipe systems or in aqu...

We consider the continuum Darcy/pipe flow model for flows in a porous matrix containing embedded conduits; such coupled flows are present in, e.g., karst aquifers. The mathematical well-posedness of the coupled problem as well as convergence rates of finite element approximation are established in the two-dimensional case. Computational results are also provided.

Loop heat pipes (LHPs) are used in many branches of industry, mainly for cooling of electrical elements and systems. The loop heat pipe is a vapour-liquid phase-change device that transfers heat from evaporator to condenser. One of the most important parts of the LHP is the porous wick structure. The wick structure provides capillary force to circulate the working fluid. To achieve good thermal...