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On the Values for the Turbulent Schmidt Number in Environmental Flows

  • Carlo Gualtieri,
  • Athanasios Angeloudis,
  • Fabian Bombardelli,
  • Sanjeev Jha and
  • Thorsten Stoesser

19 April 2017

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has consolidated as a tool to provide understanding and quantitative information regarding many complex environmental flows. The accuracy and reliability of CFD modelling results oftentimes come under scrutiny becau...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,371 Views
22 Pages

Numerical Simulation of a GH2/LOx Single Injector Combustor and the Effect of the Turbulent Schmidt Number

  • Won-Sub Hwang,
  • Woojoo Han,
  • Kang Y. Huh,
  • Juhoon Kim,
  • Bok Jik Lee and
  • Jeong-Yeol Choi

15 December 2020

A large-eddy simulation (LES) of a gaseous hydrogen/liquid oxygen (GH2/LOX) single-injector rocket combustor is performed in this study. The Redlich–Kwong–Peng–Robinson (RK–PR) equation of state is used to simulate the real-ga...

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  • Open Access
947 Views
12 Pages

21 November 2024

Due to its critical importance in engineering applications, this study is motivated by the essential need to understand natural convection over a vertical cylinder with combined heat and mass transfer. Lie group symmetry transformations are used to a...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,055 Views
13 Pages

Theoretical Model of Suspended Sediment Concentration in a Flow with Submerged Vegetation

  • Da Li,
  • Zhonghua Yang,
  • Zhaohua Sun,
  • Wenxin Huai and
  • Jianhua Liu

14 November 2018

Vegetation in natural river interacts with river flow and sediment transport. This paper proposes a two-layer theoretical model based on diffusion theory for predicting the vertical distribution of suspended sediment concentration in a flow with subm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,685 Views
11 Pages

25 November 2018

A numerical simulation of the laminar flow field and convection–diffusion mass transfer in a regular system of parallel fully absorbing fibers for the range of Reynolds numbers up to Re = 300 is performed. An isolated row of equidistant circula...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,869 Views
19 Pages

16 March 2023

In this work, the objective is to get the exact analytical solution of a generalized Casson fluid model with heat generation and chemical reaction described by the Caputo fractional operator, using the approach that the Laplace transform method inclu...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,608 Views
10 Pages

Interpolating between Positive and Completely Positive Maps: A New Hierarchy of Entangled States

  • Katarzyna Siudzińska,
  • Sagnik Chakraborty and
  • Dariusz Chruściński

18 May 2021

A new class of positive maps is introduced. It interpolates between positive and completely positive maps. It is shown that this class gives rise to a new characterization of entangled states. Additionally, it provides a refinement of the well-known...

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  • Open Access
2,029 Views
12 Pages

Non-Dimensional Analysis of Diffusion Characteristics in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells with Mismatched Anodic and Cathodic Flow Channels

  • Hyeok Kim,
  • Geonhwi Kim,
  • Jaeyeon Kim,
  • Dasol Kim,
  • Obeen Kwon,
  • Hongnyoung Yoo,
  • Hyeonjin Cha,
  • Heesoo Choi and
  • Taehyun Park

20 December 2021

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells were analyzed to investigate changes in the structure of the flow field and operating conditions. The cell performance, which was controlled by adjusting the width of the cathodic channel, improved as the backp...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,622 Views
20 Pages

Magnetized Dissipative Soret Effect on Chemically Reactive Maxwell Fluid over a Stretching Sheet with Joule Heating

  • Suresha Suraiah Palaiah,
  • Hussain Basha,
  • Gudala Janardhana Reddy and
  • Mikhail A. Sheremet

29 April 2021

The present research paper deals with the study of heat and mass transfer characteristics of steady viscous incompressible two-dimensional Maxwell fluid flow past a stretching sheet under the influence of magnetic field and the Soret effect. A well-k...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,542 Views
25 Pages

2 November 2021

In a mixture of two kinds of identical bosons, there are two types of pairs: identical bosons’ pairs, of either species, and pairs of distinguishable bosons. In the present work, the fragmentation of pairs in a trapped mixture of Bose–Ein...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,495 Views
15 Pages

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Mixing Phenomena in Double-Tee Junctions

  • Luka Grbčić,
  • Lado Kranjčević,
  • Ivana Lučin and
  • Zoran Čarija

8 June 2019

This work investigates mixing phenomena in a pressurized pipe system with two sequential Tee junctions and experiments are conducted for a range of different inlet flow ratios, varying distances between Tee junctions and two pipe branching configurat...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,198 Views
17 Pages

A regulation on the sulfur emissions of ships sailing in global sea areas has been enforced since 1 January 2020. In this new regulation, ships are required to use low-sulfur fuel oils or to install an after-treatment equipment, such as a scrubber. O...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,316 Views
14 Pages

25 December 2022

In environmental flows, field and laboratory measurements of suspended sediments show two kinds of concentration profiles. For coarse sediments, a near-bed upward convex profile is observed beneath the main upward concave profile. In this study, we c...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,058 Views
25 Pages

12 September 2023

Traditionally, Fourier spectra have been employed to gain a deeper understanding of turbulence flow structures. The investigation of isotropic forced turbulence with passive scalars offers a straightforward means to examine the disparities between ve...

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13 Citations
2,997 Views
17 Pages

Odor-guided navigation is fundamental to the survival and reproductive success of many flying insects. Despite its biological importance, the mechanics of how insects sense and interpret odor plumes in the presence of complex flow fields remain poorl...

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2,951 Views
19 Pages

28 February 2022

Unexpected observations of strong radiowave scatter at a ~85–90 km altitude with very high frequency radars were explained in the early 1990s, when it was demonstrated that these were due to special turbulent and small-scale scatterers with hig...

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2 Citations
2,340 Views
19 Pages

Testing Basic Gradient Turbulent Transport Models for Swirl Burners Using PIV and PLIF

  • Alexey Savitskii,
  • Aleksei Lobasov,
  • Dmitriy Sharaborin and
  • Vladimir Dulin

25 October 2021

The present paper reports on the combined stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (PIV) and planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF) measurements of turbulent transport for model swirl burners without combustion. Two flow types were considered, namel...

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1 Citations
2,157 Views
18 Pages

Optimal High-Dimensional Entanglement Concentration for Pure Bipartite Systems

  • Lukas Palma Torres,
  • Miguel Ángel Solís-Prosser,
  • Omar Jiménez,
  • Esteban S. Gómez and
  • Aldo Delgado

7 June 2023

Considering pure quantum states, entanglement concentration is the procedure where, from N copies of a partially entangled state, a single state with higher entanglement can be obtained. Obtaining a maximally entangled state is possible for N=1. Howe...

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8 Citations
2,439 Views
15 Pages

On Finding the Right Sampling Line Height through a Parametric Study of Gas Dispersion in a NVB

  • E. Moustapha Doumbia,
  • David Janke,
  • Qianying Yi,
  • Guoqiang Zhang,
  • Thomas Amon,
  • Martin Kriegel and
  • Sabrina Hempel

17 May 2021

The tracer gas method is one of the common ways to evaluate the air exchange rate in a naturally ventilated barn. One crucial condition for the accuracy of the method is that both considered gases (pollutant and tracer) are perfectly mixed at the poi...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,014 Views
24 Pages

23 June 2022

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is used to accurately model and predict the dispersion of a passive scalar in the atmospheric wind flow field within an urban setting. The Mock Urban Setting Tests (MUST) experiment was recreated in this work to tes...

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1,101 Views
16 Pages

4 December 2024

The mean dissipation rate of turbulent energy reaches a constant value at high Taylor–Reynolds numbers (Rλ). This value is associated with the well-scaling dissipation spectrum in Kolmogorov units, where the maximum corresponds to the bo...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,922 Views
26 Pages

A Reduced Model for Salt-Finger Convection in the Small Diffusivity Ratio Limit

  • Jin-Han Xie,
  • Benjamin Miquel,
  • Keith Julien and
  • Edgar Knobloch

30 January 2017

A simple model of nonlinear salt-finger convection in two dimensions is derived and studied. The model is valid in the limit of a small solute to heat diffusivity ratio and a large density ratio, which is relevant to both oceanographic and astrophysic...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,506 Views
12 Pages

8 September 2017

The paper is focused on the simulation and modeling of the dispersion from an instantaneous source of heat or mass located at the center of a turbulent flow channel. The flow is modeled with a direct numerical simulation, and the dispersion is modele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,433 Views
18 Pages

28 July 2010

This paper concerns the second law analysis of a viscoelastic fluid over a stretching sheet subject to a transverse magnetic field with heat and mass transfer. The velocity, temperature and concentration profiles are obtained analytically using Kumme...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,944 Views
16 Pages

30 July 2018

Results from numerical simulations of the mixing of two puffs of scalars released in a turbulent flow channel are used to introduce a measure of mixing quality, and to investigate the effectiveness of turbulent mixing as a function of the location of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,486 Views
19 Pages

26 April 2016

The main concern of the present article is to study steady magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) flow, heat transfer and entropy generation past a permeable rotating disk using a semi numerical/analytical method named Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM). The results...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,225 Views
14 Pages

Power-Law Nanofluid Flow over a Stretchable Surface Due to Gyrotactic Microorganisms

  • Hossam A. Nabwey,
  • Waqar A. Khan,
  • A. M. Rashad,
  • Fazal Mabood and
  • Taha Salah

9 September 2022

This study aims to learn more about how the flow of a power-law nanofluid’s mixed bio-convective stagnation point flow approaching a stretchable surface behaves with the presence of a passively controlled boundary condition. The governing equat...

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,655 Views
18 Pages

25 March 2019

This research article deals with the determination of magnetohydrodynamic steady flow of three combile nanofluids (Jefferey, Maxwell, and Oldroyd-B) over a stretched surface. The surface is considered to be linear. The Cattaneo–Christov heat fl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
2,882 Views
22 Pages

Heat Transfer Attributes of Gold–Silver–Blood Hybrid Nanomaterial Flow in an EMHD Peristaltic Channel with Activation Energy

  • Basma Souayeh,
  • Katta Ramesh,
  • Najib Hdhiri,
  • Essam Yasin,
  • Mir Waqas Alam,
  • Kawthar Alfares and
  • Amina Yasin

10 May 2022

The heat enhancement in hybrid nanofluid flow through the peristaltic mechanism has received great attention due to its occurrence in many engineering and biomedical systems, such as flow through canals, the cavity flow model and biomedicine. Therefo...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,555 Views
15 Pages

Nondestructive Determination of Strength of Concrete Incorporating Industrial Wastes as Partial Replacement for Fine Aggregate

  • Temple Chimuanya Odimegwu,
  • A. B. M. Amrul Kaish,
  • Ideris Zakaria,
  • Manal Mohsen Abood,
  • Maslina Jamil and
  • Kayode-Ojo Ngozi

10 December 2021

Schmidt rebound hammer test was employed in this study as a nondestructive test. This test method has been universally utilized due to its non-destructiveness for quick and easy assessment of material strength properties and quality of concrete of an...

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  • Open Access
110 Citations
4,285 Views
17 Pages

8 March 2021

The fluid flow through inclined plates has several applications in magneto-aerodynamics, materials processing and magnetohydrodynamic propulsion thermo-fluid dynamics. Inspired by these applications, the rate of entropy production in a bio-convective...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,056 Views
14 Pages

Adapted Schmidt Hardness Testing on Large Rock Samples—Kanfanar-South Quarry Case Study

  • Zlatko Briševac,
  • Kristian Kosović,
  • Dražen Navratil and
  • Tomislav Korman

21 January 2023

This paper deals with the possibility of using the Schmidt hardness test, which does not require much preliminary preparation and is easy to perform, in the production of commercial blocks in a quarry. Previous recommendations for Schmidt hardness te...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,453 Views
19 Pages

Computation of Melting Dissipative Magnetohydrodynamic Nanofluid Bioconvection with Second-order Slip and Variable Thermophysical Properties

  • Nur Ardiana Amirsom,
  • Md. Jashim Uddin,
  • Md Faisal Md Basir,
  • Ali Kadir,
  • O. Anwar Bég and
  • Ahmad Izani Md. Ismail

19 June 2019

This paper studies the combined effects of viscous dissipation, first and second-order slip and variable transport properties on phase-change hydromagnetic bio-nanofluid convection flow from a stretching sheet. Nanoscale materials possess a much larg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,420 Views
22 Pages

Analysis of Nanofluid Particles in a Duct with Thermal Radiation by Using an Efficient Metaheuristic-Driven Approach

  • Naveed Ahmad Khan,
  • Muhammad Sulaiman,
  • Carlos Andrés Tavera Romero and
  • Fahad Sameer Alshammari

14 February 2022

This study investigated the steady two-phase flow of a nanofluid in a permeable duct with thermal radiation, a magnetic field, and external forces. The basic continuity and momentum equations were considered along with the Buongiorno model to formula...

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3 Citations
4,927 Views
14 Pages

The research presented here demonstrates the practical aspects of the numerical correlation of the results of the compressive strength test. The destructive test (DT) in a hydraulic press and the non-destructive test (NDT) using a Schmidt hammer in s...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,222 Views
19 Pages

25 November 2024

This study investigates the steady, two-dimensional boundary layer flow of a Casson fluid over an inclined nonlinear stretching surface embedded within a Forchheimer porous medium. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into a s...

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14 Citations
2,949 Views
23 Pages

9 August 2021

This study investigates the effects of viscous dissipation and a heat source or sink on the magneto-hydrodynamic laminar boundary layer flow of a Jeffrey fluid past a vertical plate. The governing boundary layer non-linear partial differential equati...

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20 Citations
3,553 Views
22 Pages

22 January 2023

This study investigates magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) nanofluid flow through a stretching vertical surface influenced by Joule heating, chemical reaction, viscosity dissipation, thermal radiation, and activation energy. Such physical problems have signif...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,974 Views
24 Pages

Synthetic Potential of Regio- and Stereoselective Ring Expansion Reactions of Six-Membered Carbo- and Heterocyclic Ring Systems: A Review

  • Rida Noor,
  • Ameer Fawad Zahoor,
  • Asim Mansha,
  • Samreen Gul Khan,
  • Atta Ul Haq,
  • Sajjad Ahmad,
  • Sami A. Al-Hussain,
  • Ali Irfan and
  • Magdi E. A. Zaki

Ring expansion reactions fascinate synthetic chemists owing to their importance in synthesizing biologically active compounds and their efficacy in medicinal chemistry. The present review summarizes a number of synthetic methodologies, including ster...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,488 Views
11 Pages

Generation of Pure State Photon Triplets in the C-Band

  • Xi-Rong Su,
  • Yi-Wen Huang,
  • Tong Xiang,
  • Yuan-Hua Li and
  • Xian-Feng Chen

13 November 2019

In this work, the cascaded second-order spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is considered to produce pure state photon triplets in periodically poled lithium niobite (PPLN) doped with 5% MgO. A set of parameters are optimized through calcul...

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  • Open Access
36 Citations
10,588 Views
25 Pages

27 February 2016

Pansharpening algorithms fuse higher spatial resolution panchromatic with lower spatial resolution multispectral imagery to create higher spatial resolution multispectral images. The free-availability and systematic global acquisition of Landsat 8 da...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,152 Views
22 Pages

5 November 2021

This study investigates heat and mass transfer under natural convection flow along a vertical permeable surface with variable wall heat fluxes through a porous medium. The non-Darcian model is employed for the medium. The effects of suction/blowing,...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,444 Views
9 Pages

2 September 2022

The numerical modeling of transverse laminar flow past a new type of hollow-fiber membranes with external profiling has been performed. A model system of parallel fibers with symmetrical parallel protrusion obstacles or grooves is considered. The abs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,953 Views
15 Pages

Chemical Reactive and Viscous Dissipative Flow of Magneto Nanofluid via Natural Convection by Employing Galerkin Finite Element Technique

  • Shankar Goud Bejawada,
  • Wasim Jamshed,
  • Rabia Safdar,
  • Yanala Dharmendar Reddy,
  • Meznah M. Alanazi,
  • Heba Y. Zahran and
  • Mohamed R. Eid

26 January 2022

A numerical study of chemically reactive effects on Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) free convective unsteady flowing over an inclined plate in a porousness material in the existence of viscous dissipation was studied. The nondimensional principal equation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,988 Views
22 Pages

A Framework for the Magnetic Dipole Effect on the Thixotropic Nanofluid Flow Past a Continuous Curved Stretched Surface

  • Noor Saeed Khan,
  • Auwalu Hamisu Usman,
  • Arif Sohail,
  • Abid Hussanan,
  • Qayyum Shah,
  • Naeem Ullah,
  • Poom Kumam,
  • Phatiphat Thounthong and
  • Usa Wannasingha Humphries

7 June 2021

The magnetic dipole effect for thixotropic nanofluid with heat and mass transfer, as well as microorganism concentration past a curved stretching surface, is discussed. The flow is in a porous medium, which describes the Darcy–Forchheimer model. Thro...

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30 Citations
2,597 Views
25 Pages

Finite Difference Method to Evaluate the Characteristics of Optically Dense Gray Nanofluid Heat Transfer around the Surface of a Sphere and in the Plume Region

  • Muhammad Ashraf,
  • Anwar Khan,
  • Amir Abbas,
  • Abid Hussanan,
  • Kaouther Ghachem,
  • Chemseddine Maatki and
  • Lioua Kolsi

10 February 2023

The current research study is focusing on the investigation of the physical effects of thermal radiation on heat and mass transfer of a nanofluid located around a sphere. The configuration is investigated by solving the partial differential equations...

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  • Open Access
80 Citations
3,996 Views
18 Pages

16 September 2019

The present article investigates the effect of multiple slips on axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) buoyant nano-fluid flow over a stretching sheet with radiation and chemical effect. The non-linear partial differential equations were transforme...

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  • Open Access
73 Citations
4,599 Views
15 Pages

19 March 2021

This article investigates unsteady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) mixed convective and thermally radiative Jeffrey nanofluid flow in view of a vertical stretchable cylinder with radiation absorption and heat; the reservoir was addressed. The mathematical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,524 Views
15 Pages

Analytical Solution for the MHD Flow of Non-Newtonian Fluids between Two Coaxial Cylinders

  • Li Chen,
  • Munawwar Ali Abbas,
  • Wissam Sadiq Khudair and
  • Bo Sun

7 May 2022

This paper deals with the MHD peristaltic flow of Williamson fluids through a porous medium between two joint cylinders. The fluid flow was considered to be that of a non-Newtonian fluid, i.e., a Williamson fluid. The inner tube was uniform, while th...

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44 Citations
6,314 Views
23 Pages

Thin Film Williamson Nanofluid Flow with Varying Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity on a Time-Dependent Stretching Sheet

  • Waris Khan,
  • Taza Gul,
  • Muhammad Idrees,
  • Saeed Islam,
  • Ilyas Khan and
  • L.C.C. Dennis

15 November 2016

This article describes the effect of thermal radiation on the thin film nanofluid flow of a Williamson fluid over an unsteady stretching surface with variable fluid properties. The basic governing equations of continuity, momentum, energy, and concen...

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