Corrosion processes are complex in nature and their studies have become an interdisciplinary research field, combining fundamental sciences and engineering. As the quantification of corrosion processes is affected by many variables, standard guidelin...
In this study, straight and looped heat pipes were designed and manufactured, and their performance in cooling cylindrical lithium-ion batteries known as standard 18,650 batteries on the market was investigated. Pure water, methanol, and thermasolv I...
The wall boundary is important in computational-fluid-dynamics simulations. If extremely small leakage, changing leakage or a moving body exists in the simulation case, the difficulty in meshing and solving near-wall flow increases. The immersed-soli...
The present work proposes the application of a computational methodology based on the coupling of the Fourier Pseudospectral Method (FPSM) and the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) for conducting flow simulations over slender airfoils. This methodology,...
A new immersed boundary method is proposed for the numerical simulation of the melting of solid particles in its own liquid at a high temperature. The main feature of the new method is the use of the modified direct-forcing immersed boundary method f...
For numerical simulations of ship and offshore hydrodynamic problems, it is challenging to model the interaction between the free surface and moving complex geometries. This paper proposes a discrete-forcing immersed boundary method (IBM) to efficien...
The coupling action of gas flow with propellant burning surface regression is the critical process in solid rocket motor (SRM), which has an important effect on the unsteady combustion, erosive burning, dynamic combustion and pressure fluctuation of...
In this paper, a kind of immersed boundary method, the discretized force with ghost cell method, is introduced to study compressible flow. Meanwhile, an adaptive mesh refinement scheme and a wall treatment for turbulent flow are proposed. With the he...
Three-dimensional (3D) computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations have gained substantial popularity in recent years for stream flow modelling. The complex terrain in streams is usually represented by a 3D mesh conforming to the terrain geometry....
A hybrid immersed boundary–lattice Boltzmann and finite difference method for fluid–structure interaction and heat transfer in non-Newtonian flow is presented. The present numerical method includes four parts: fluid solver, heat transfer...
The “immersed boundary method (IBM)” is considered to be the most efficacious and versatile technique to solve flow problems associated with intricate geometries. The first part of this review examines recent advancements in IBM, essentia...
The immersed boundary method has attracted considerable interest in the last few years. The method is a computational cheap alternative to represent the boundaries of a geometrically complex body, while using a cartesian mesh, by adding a force term...
The air-water two-phase flow model is developed to study the transformation of monochromatic waves passing over the submerged structure. The level set method is employed to describe the motion of the interface while the effect of the immersed object...
This study addresses the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency in predicting the aerodynamics and wakes of large wind turbines. We developed a unified immersed boundary–actuator line framework with large-eddy simulation. The actuator line e...
In this work, the explicit boundary-condition-enforced immersed boundary method (EIBM) and the lattice Boltzmann flux solver (LBFS) are integrated into OpenFOAM to efficiently solve incompressible flows with complex geometries and moving boundaries....
This study employs numerical techniques to investigate the motion characteristics of red blood cells (RBCs) and drug carriers (DCs) within microvessels. A coupled model of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and immersed boundary method (IBM) is propo...
An adaptive immersed boundary method (IBM) for simulating non-isothermal incompressible flows with convective heat transfer involving a rotating circular cylinder is developed. Both Dirichlet- (isothermal) and Neumann (zero heat flux)-type temperatur...
Accurate prediction of hydrodynamic forces on confined oscillating structures is essential in applications related to nuclear engineering, energy systems, offshore devices, and mechanical components subjected to flow-induced vibrations. In this work,...
Mathematical modeling and analysis of biologically inspired systems has been a fascinating research topic in recent years. In this work, we present the results obtained from the simulation of an elastic rod (that mimics a flagellum axoneme) rotationa...
In the present work, verifying the applicability and potentiality of the IMERSPEC methodology for numerical and computational modeling of two-dimensional flows over airfoils and vertical axis wind turbines is proposed. It is a high-order convergence...
The fluid-structure interaction of solid objects freely falling in a Newtonian fluid was investigated numerically by direct-forcing immersed boundary (DFIB) method. The Navier–Stokes equations are coupled with equations of motion through virtua...
In urban canopies, the variability of pollution may be influenced by the presence of surface heterogeneities like orography and buildings. Using the Meso-NH model enhanced with an immersed boundary method (IBM) to represent accurately the impact of t...
Fluid–structure coupling is a prominent and hot topic in computer graphics and virtual reality. The hybrid technique known as FLIP combines the benefits of grid-based and particle-based techniques. Nevertheless, a significant problem is figurin...
The sand-filling method has been widely used in immersed tube tunnel engineering. However, for the problem of monitoring during the sand-filling process, the traditional methods can be inadequate for evaluating the state of sand deposits in real-time...
Nanodrug-carrier delivery in the blood stream is strongly influenced by nanoparticle (NP) dispersion. This paper presents a numerical study on NP transport and dispersion in red blood cell (RBC) suspensions under shear and channel flow conditions, ut...
A flow–particle interaction solver was developed in this study. For the basic flow solver, an improved divergence-free-condition compensated coupled (IDFC2) framework was employed to predict the velocity and pressure field. In order to model the effe...
Biological flows in swimming and flying bio-locomotion usually involve intricate flexible or rigid structures that undergo large deformations and displacements, as well as rich mechanisms of bio-fluid interactions. Immersed boundary methods (IBMs) ha...
Fish-like robots have been widely used in intelligent surveillance and investigation because of their high swimming efficiency and low traveling noise. Numerical simulations are usually selected to simulate the movement modes and hydrodynamic charact...
Bone-substitute materials are essential in dental implantology. We prepared collagen (Col)/hydroxyapatite (Hap)/acidic gelatin (AG)/basic fibroblast growth factor (b-FGF) constructs with enhanced bone-forming capability. The Col/Hap apatite composite...
In order to study the coupling fluid and thermal problems of the local winding in oil-immersed power transformers, the least-squares finite element method (LSFEM) and upwind finite element method (UFEM) are adopted, respectively, to calculate the flu...
Structural health monitoring (SHM) is gradually replacing traditional manual detection and is becoming a focus of the research devoted to the operation and maintenance of tunnel structures. However, in the face of massive SHM data, the autonomous ear...
We investigated particulate flows by coupling simulations of the three-dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes equation with the immersed boundary method (IBM). The results obtained from the two-way coupled simulation were compared with those of the...
The application of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to computational fluid dynamics simulations has recently attracted tremendous attention. In the simulations of PINNs, the collocation points are required to conform to the fluid–solid...
Oil-immersed cooling provides an effective cooling scheme for high-power hub motors with compact structure and serious heating problems. However, with this cooling method, some oil friction loss will be generated, making the output torque and efficie...
Nonlinear water waves (NWWs) can be generated by the vertical bottom disturbance, which represents the conceptual processes of the rise of seabed rupture under seismic loads. To explore the correlation between the disturbance parameters and the wave...
Tunnels generally operate underground or underwater in a complex environment. As a result, the health monitoring system is inevitably affected by various environmental factors, which introduces noise to the system. However, the noise contained in the...
The presence of particles with a small but finite size, suspended in viscous fluids with low volumetric concentrations, is observed in many applications. The present study focuses on the tridimensional and incompressible lid-driven flow of Newtonian...
The aim of this study was to investigate the low-temperature degradation (LTD) kinetics of tetragonal zirconia with 3 mol% yttria (3Y-TZP) dental ceramic using two degradation methods: hydrothermal degradation and immersed degradation. To study trans...
In the context of new-type power system construction, digital twin has become the core technology for power transformers, supporting their full-life cycle intelligent operation and maintenance. The real-time, high-precision calculation of the interna...
As one of the most important members of the palm family, coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) currently faces a substantial gap between demand and production. Current plantings of this crop are aging, and these traditional varieties are susceptible to several...
In this study, a superhydrophobic surface was constructed on a copper substrate through dealloying-forming and solution-immersion methods. The dealloying process for nanostructures on a copper surface involved the electrodeposition of zinc atoms, and...
The fault detection method has been used usually to give a diagnosis of the performance and efficiency in the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) systems. To be able to use this method a lot of sensors are implemented in the PEMFC to measure d...
A temporary immersion system (TIS) bioreactor has been used as an efficient and cost-effective method for the in vitro propagation of many plant species. In the current study, the applicability of a TIS bioreactor for plantlet regeneration Chrysanthe...
The coating process for solid dosage forms is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry but presents challenges for small-scale production, needed in personalized medicine and clinical or galenic settings. This study aimed to evaluate immersion coat...
Since the use of the most stable Pb-based materials in the electronic industry has been banned due to human health concerns, numerous research studies have focused on Pb-free materials such as pure tin and its alloys for electronic applications. Pure...
Double cantilever beam (DCB) tests were conducted by immersing the specimens in temperature-controlled water while applying a creep load using a spring. By introducing a data reduction scheme to the spring-loaded DCB test method, it was confirmed tha...
The inferior property is usually one of the major problems of recycled coarse aggregate (RCA), and the utilization of the RCA is limited. Strengthening the RCA is being widely explored. Immersing the RCA in the cement-based slurry is an effective app...
Due to the complexity of risk factors in constructing immersed tube tunnels, it is impossible to accurately identify risks. To solve this problem, and the uncertainty and fuzziness of risk factors, a risk assessment method for immersed tube tunnel co...
This review addresses the modeling approaches for heat transfer processes in oil-immersed transformer. Electromagnetic, thermal, and hydrodynamic thermal fields are identified as the most critical aspects in describing the state of the transformer. T...
The aim of this study is to develop an efficient method for micropropagation of Pennisetum × advena ‘Rubrum’. Agar cultures containing Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 6-benzyl-amino-purine (BAP) in various concentr...
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