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5 Citations
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4 July 2021

The variation in the viscous damping coefficient with the carbon fiber angle can be evaluated using the partial derivatives of the viscous damping coefficient with respect to the resonance frequency and modal damping ratio. However, the direct deriva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,414 Views
16 Pages

15 October 2021

A linearized dynamic model of a carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) structure can be formulated using the structural stiffness and viscous damping coefficient. The carbon fiber angle is an influential factor in determining the structural stiffness...

(This article belongs to the Section Crystal Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,006 Views
19 Pages

1 February 2022

The viscous boundary has a direct influence on the accuracy of structural dynamic response analysis, and the absorbing effect of the viscous boundary is controlled by the adjustment coefficient. Therefore, a calibration model of the viscous boundary&...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Granular Flows Modeling and Simulation)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,395 Views
19 Pages

Shaking Table Tests and Numerical Analysis of a Steel Frame Employing Novel Variable-Coefficient Viscous Dampers

  • Muhan Liu,
  • Chuying Cao,
  • Zhenyu Zhu,
  • Weizhi Xu and ,
  • Dongsheng Du,
  • Shuguang Wang and
  • Chuanzhi Sun
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 March 2025

Variable-coefficient viscous dampers (VVDs) have a variable annular gap, allowing them to dynamically adjust the damping coefficient at different displacement stages and provide higher damping forces during large displacement phases. This study evalu...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,211 Views
19 Pages

25 June 2021

In hydraulic components, nonlinearities are responsible for critical behaviors that make it difficult to realize a reliable mathematical model for numerical simulation. With particular reference to hydraulic spool valves, the viscous friction coeffic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fluid Power Components and Systems)
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  • Open Access
1,854 Views
23 Pages

The Fluid Behavior of a Non-Orifice TLCD under Harmonic Excitation: From Experiments to Analytical Solution

  • Sefer Arda Serbes,
  • Tahsin Engin,
  • Muaz Kemerli,
  • Egemen Kayrakoğlu and
  • Ahmet Aydın

4 September 2024

Tuned liquid column damper (TLCD) is a well-known liquid damper designed to absorb the vibration of structures used in many applications, such as high-story buildings, wind turbines, and offshore platforms, requiring an accurate mathematical determin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Vibration Control Research)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,529 Views
10 Pages

An Investigation of Viscous Torque Loss in Ball Bearing Operating in Various Liquids

  • Martin Dobrovolný,
  • Vladimír Habán,
  • Jana Tancjurová and
  • Jan Zbavitel

18 May 2021

The limited functionality of seals that are used in hydraulic machines to prevent the liquid from leaking into the bearings may result in decrease in machine efficiency and reliability and may cause an accident of the whole hydraulic machine. However...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,535 Views
19 Pages

20 February 2020

In this study, the methods and results of numerical simulations to estimate the motion performance of a newly developed lightweight light buoy in waves and to check the effect of conceptually developed appendages on that performance were introduced....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Waves and Ocean Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,227 Views
23 Pages

29 September 2023

In this study, deep neural network (DNN) and transfer learning (TL) techniques were employed to predict the viscous resistance and wake distribution based on the positions of flow control fins (FCFs) applied to containerships of various sizes. Both m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Modeling for Ship Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,760 Views
13 Pages

22 June 2022

Tilting pad bearings are appropriate for the trend of high efficiency and reliability design of rotating machinery due to their high stability. The laminar and turbulent flow states exist in the lubricating oil film of high-speed and heavy-load tilti...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,310 Views
15 Pages

Viscosity of Clayey Soils: Experimental Studies

  • Armen Z. Ter-Martirosyan,
  • Lyubov Yu. Ermoshina and
  • George O. Anzhelo

9 July 2024

Due to the high rate of the development of housing, transportation and hydraulic engineering construction in the last hundred years, the study of the phenomenon of creep of clay soils has become a subject of scientific research. In the study, experim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanical Properties and Engineering Applications of Special Soils)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,041 Views
12 Pages

Integrated Modeling of the Catalytic Aquathermolysis Process to Evaluate the Efficiency in a Porous Medium by the Example of a Carbonate Extra-Viscous Oil Field

  • Ilgiz F. Minkhanov,
  • Vladislav V. Chalin,
  • Aidar R. Tazeev,
  • Alexander V. Bolotov and ,
  • Irek I. Mukhamatdinov,
  • Sergey A. Sitnov,
  • Alexey V. Vakhin,
  • Mikhail A. Varfolomeev,
  • Sergey I. Kudryashov and
  • Iaroslav O. Simakov
  • + 10 authors+ 5 authors

27 January 2023

In order to evaluate the efficiency of the catalytic aquathermolysis process, physical modeling was carried out on bituminous sediments of Paleocene–Miocene carbonate rocks, characterized by the presence of open and closed fractures. In this co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Catalysis for Bitumen/Heavy Oil Upgrading and Petroleum Refining)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,233 Views
15 Pages

5 September 2020

Many small marine planktonic organisms converge on similar propulsion mechanisms that involve impulsively generated viscous wake vortex rings, and small-scale fluid physics is key to mechanistically understanding the adaptive values of this important...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fluid Mechanics of Plankton)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,976 Views
21 Pages

18 June 2021

With the rise of smart robots in the field of industrial automation, the motion control theory of the robot servo controller has become a research hotspot. The parameter mismatch of the controller will reduce the efficiency of the equipment and damag...

(This article belongs to the Collection Smart Robotics for Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,517 Views
14 Pages

11 December 2021

The prediction of system parameters is important for understanding the dynamic behavior of composite structures or selecting the configuration of laminated carbon in carbon-based composite (CBC) structures. The dynamic nature of CBC structures allows...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational and Experimental Mechanics of Engineering Materials and Structures)
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  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,279 Views
22 Pages

New MEMS Tweezers for the Viscoelastic Characterization of Soft Materials at the Microscale

  • Paolo Di Giamberardino,
  • Alvise Bagolini,
  • Pierluigi Bellutti,
  • Imre J. Rudas and ,
  • Matteo Verotti,
  • Fabio Botta and
  • Nicola P. Belfiore
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 December 2017

As many studies show, there is a relation between the tissue’s mechanical characteristics and some specific diseases. Knowing this relationship would help early diagnosis or microsurgery. In this paper, a new method for measuring the viscoelastic pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Locomotion at Small Scales: From Biology to Artificial Systems)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,280 Views
16 Pages

5 November 2019

Non-homogeneous viscous debris flows are characterized by high density, impact force and destructiveness, and the complexity of the materials they are made of. This has always made these flows challenging to simulate numerically, and to reproduce exp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Modelling and Prediction on the Impact of Human Activities and Extreme Events on Environments)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,858 Views
19 Pages

Mathematical Analysis of the Poiseuille Flow of a Fluid with Temperature-Dependent Properties

  • Evgenii S. Baranovskii,
  • Anastasia A. Domnich and
  • Mikhail A. Artemov

24 October 2024

This article is devoted to the mathematical analysis of a heat and mass transfer model for the pressure-induced flow of a viscous fluid through a plane channel subject to Navier’s slip conditions on the channel walls. The important feature of o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Dynamic Flow Models)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,743 Views
20 Pages

18 April 2023

The visco-damper is a crucial engine accessory from an operation- as well as vehicle-safety point of view. The service life of this damping product is determined by the degradation of the silicone oil applied to it. The thermal and mechanical degrada...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,963 Views
9 Pages

Damping Force and Loading Position Dependence of Mass Sensitivity of Magnetoelastic Biosensors in Viscous Liquid

  • Kewei Zhang,
  • Zhe Chen,
  • Qianke Zhu,
  • Yong Jiang and ,
  • Wenfeng Liu and
  • Peixuan Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 December 2018

We established the vibration governing equation for a magnetoelastic (ME) biosensor with target loading in liquid. Based on the equation, a numerical simulation approach was used to determine the effect of the target loading position and viscous damp...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,184 Views
15 Pages

Cosmic Evolution of Viscous QCD Epoch in Causal Eckart Frame

  • Eman Abdel Hakk,
  • Abdel Nasser Tawfik,
  • Afaf Nada and
  • Hayam Yassin

21 April 2021

It is conjectured that in cosmological applications the particle current is not modified but finite heat or energy flow. Therefore, comoving Eckart frame is a suitable choice, as it merely ceases the charge and particle diffusion and conserves charge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cosmological Models, Quantum Theories and Astrophysical Observations)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,106 Views
11 Pages

Hydrodynamic modeling is the basis of the precise control research of underwater manipulators. Viscous hydrodynamics, an important part of the hydrodynamic model, directly affects the accuracy of the dynamic model and the control model of the manipul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Marine Robotics Modelling, Simulation and Applications)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,249 Views
18 Pages

17 June 2022

Strong viscous interaction and multiple flow regimes exist when vehicles fly at high altitude and high Mach number conditions. The Navier–Stokes(NS) solver is no longer applicable in the above situation. Instead, the direct simulation Monte Car...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Kinetic Theory-Based Methods in Fluid Dynamics)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,008 Views
23 Pages

Development of a Methodology for Seismic Design of Framed Steel Structures Incorporating Viscous Dampers

  • Panagiotis Diamantis,
  • Panagiota Katsimpini and
  • George D. Hatzigeorgiou

4 November 2025

This study develops empirical equations relating viscous damping ratios (ξ) and damper coefficients (c) in steel structures for seismic design applications. The objective is to establish predictive formulas that enable conversion between equivalen...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical, Civil and Environmental Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,898 Views
17 Pages

Methods for coupled aero-hydro-servo-elastic time-domain simulations of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs) have been successfully developed. One of the present challenges is a realistic approximation of the viscous drag of the wetted members of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Offshore Wind Structures)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,819 Views
17 Pages

15 January 2018

A novel time-domain Green’s function is developed for dealing with two-dimensional interaction between water waves and floating bodies with considering viscous dissipation effects based on the “fairly perfect fluid” model. In the Green’s function, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,908 Views
19 Pages

Mean and slowly varying wave loads on floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) need to be estimated accurately for the design of mooring systems. The low-frequency drift forces are underestimated by potential flow theory, especially in steep waves. Vi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling Techniques for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines)
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  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,883 Views
26 Pages

Viscous Damping Identification for a Wave Energy Converter Using CFD-URANS Simulations

  • Marco Fontana,
  • Pietro Casalone,
  • Sergej Antonello Sirigu,
  • Giuseppe Giorgi and ,
  • Giovanni Bracco and
  • Giuliana Mattiazzo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

During the optimization phase of a wave energy converter (WEC), it is essential to be able to rely on a model that is both fast and accurate. In this regard, Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) with Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) approach...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue CFD Simulations of Marine Hydrodynamics)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,076 Views
15 Pages

Damping Characteristics of a Novel Bellows Viscous Damper

  • Yang Chen,
  • Chao Qin,
  • Honghai Zhou,
  • Zhenbang Xu and ,
  • Anpeng Xu and
  • Hang Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 September 2024

Micro-vibrations during the operation of space remote sensing equipment can significantly affect optical imaging quality. To address this issue, a bellows-type viscous damper serves as an effective passive damping and vibration isolation solution. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,068 Views
20 Pages

Effect of Viscous Dampers with Variable Capacity on the Response of Steel Buildings

  • Panagiotis Mavroeidakos,
  • Panagiota Katsimpini and
  • George Papagiannopoulos

The objective of this study was to examine the seismic behavior of steel buildings equipped with linear and nonlinear viscous dampers that may exhibit variable capacity. More specifically, nonlinear time history analyses were conducted on two three-d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vibration Damping)
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  • Open Access
861 Views
21 Pages

Research on Prediction Method for Heave Motion of Cylindrical FPSO Based on Viscous Correction

  • Shenglei Fu,
  • Wei Gao,
  • Yuanfang Li,
  • Ying Xie and ,
  • Tianqi Wang and
  • Chen An
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 February 2026

Cylindrical floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) units represent a new core asset in offshore oil exploration and development, where their stability and safety under complex sea conditions are critical. The design of their large waterlin...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,522 Views
17 Pages

Investigation of the Physical Mechanism of Acoustic Attenuation in Viscous Isotropic Solids

  • Lin Fa,
  • Lili Li,
  • Hong Gong,
  • Wenhui Chen and ,
  • Jing Jiang,
  • Guoqiang You,
  • Jifeng Liang,
  • Yandong Zhang and
  • Meishan Zhao
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

15 September 2022

The traditional acoustic attenuation coefficient is derived from an analogy of the attenuation of an electromagnetic wave propagating inside a non-ideal medium, featuring only the attenuation of wave propagation. Nonetheless, the particles inside vis...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Physics)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,323 Views
18 Pages

28 October 2022

Partial filling of porous medium insert in a channel alleviates the tremendous pressure drop associated with a porous medium saturated channel, and enhances heat transfer at an optimum fraction of porous medium filling. This study pioneered an invest...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances of Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,684 Views
30 Pages

30 October 2025

This study investigates the hydrodynamic response of a spar-type buoy equipped with a solid, perforated, and novel corrugated plate appendage introduced here for the first time to enhance motion damping. A hybrid approach combining time-domain CFD si...

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  • Open Access
262 Views
27 Pages

1 September 2026

To address the problems where the resistance coefficients of the two-stage brush seal porous medium model rely on experimental calibration and the resistance characteristics of each stage are difficult to distinguish, this paper proposes a method wit...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,497 Views
23 Pages

11 January 2025

Inerter dampers are effectively employed to mitigate and dampen structural vibrations in slender or high-rise buildings. The simple viscous inerter damper, with a viscous dashpot placed in series with an inerter, is designed to create resonant vibrat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vibration Monitoring and Control of the Built Environment)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,094 Views
24 Pages

Effect of Dissipation on the Moonpool-Javelin Wave Energy Converter

  • Dan Yu,
  • Keyi Wang,
  • Yeqing Jin,
  • Fankai Kong and ,
  • Hailong Chen and
  • Can Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 December 2021

In this work, the hydrodynamic performance of a novel wave energy converter (WEC) configuration which combines a moonpool platform and a javelin floating buoy, called the moonpool–javelin wave energy converter (MJWEC), was studied by semianalyt...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,354 Views
14 Pages

Longitudinal–Transverse Natural Waves in a Cylindrical Shell in Contact with a Viscous Fluid

  • Tulkin Ruziyev,
  • Ismoil Safarov,
  • Mukhsin Teshayev,
  • Bahodir Rakhmanov and ,
  • Abdurakhim Marasulov,
  • Sherzod Ablokulov and
  • Firuza Nurova
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 February 2026

Natural waves are widely used in seismology and seismic exploration as tools for nondestructive testing of the surface layer. The study examines longitudinal and transverse vibrations of a polymer pipeline transporting petroleum products, which is mo...

(This article belongs to the Section Composites Modelling and Characterization)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,965 Views
17 Pages

Viscous drag, nonlinear in nature, is an important aspect of the fluid–structure interaction modelling and is usually not taken into account when the fluid is assumed to be inviscid. Potential flow solvers can competently compute radiation damp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Numerical Modelling of Wave Energy Converters)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,755 Views
14 Pages

11 June 2024

Matter prevailing during the early stages of the Universe or under extreme conditions in high-energy heavy-ion experiments supposedly possesses a rich phase structure. During the evolution of such a system, the complicated pictures of transitions amo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring Quark Matter under Extreme Scenarios of Temperature and Density)
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  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,001 Views
16 Pages

4 March 2019

The effect of hydrodynamic performance of the wave energy converter (WEC)–rotor based on linear potential flow theory due to nonlinear viscous damping was investigated. Free decay tests were conducted using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wave Energy Conversion)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,168 Views
21 Pages

Hydrodynamic Characterisation of a Garman-Type Hydrokinetic Turbine

  • Santiago Laín,
  • Leidy T. Contreras and
  • Omar D. López

14 May 2021

This paper presents a numerical study of the effects of the inclination angle of the turbine rotation axis with respect to the main flow direction on the performance of a prototype hydrokinetic turbine of the Garman type. In particular, the torque an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling and Simulation of Turbulent Flows)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,873 Views
17 Pages

Analytical Investigation on the Dynamic Behavior of Multi-Span Continuous Beams Supported on Soil with Finite Depth

  • Da Li,
  • Hang Yang,
  • Jianjun Ma,
  • Ju Wang and ,
  • Chaosheng Wang and
  • Ying Guo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 July 2024

This paper investigates the influence of soil with finite depth on the vibrational behavior of a multi-span continuous beam resting on an elastic foundation. The simplified model of the Timoshenko beam supported on soil with finite depth is establish...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surface Treatment and Mechanical Properties of Sustainable Pavement Materials)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,202 Views
8 Pages

High-Speed Measurements of Steel–Ice Friction: Experiment vs. Calculation

  • Matthias Scherge,
  • Roman Böttcher,
  • Alberto Spagni and
  • Diego Marchetto

An ultra-thin water film plays the decisive role in steel–ice friction in bobsleighing. The water film has a thickness on the order of nanometers and results from the superposition of an existing quasi-liquid layer and additional surface water genera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,255 Views
14 Pages

9 March 2015

Sintered metal porous media currently plays an important role in air bearing systems. When flowing through porous media, the flow properties are generally represented by incompressible Darcy-Forchheimer regime or Ergun regime. In this study, a modif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
412 Views
30 Pages

Modern Chinese traditional-style buildings (MCTBs) preserve the beam–column –construction of historical architecture, but the irregularity of joints continues to constrain their seismic performance. To enhance the energy-dissipation capac...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
755 Views
27 Pages

30 December 2025

Filled joints significantly influence the dynamic response of rock masses, exhibiting coupled nonlinear compression-hardening and viscous deformation. However, the combined effects of these mechanisms on wave propagation remain unclear. This study de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,526 Views
15 Pages

Influence of Higher Order Viscous and Thermal Effects on an Ultrasonic Wave Reflected from the First Interface of a Porous Material

  • Zine El Abiddine Fellah,
  • Rémi Roncen,
  • Nicholas O. Ongwen,
  • Erick Ogam and ,
  • Mohamed Fellah and
  • Claude Depollier
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 January 2022

Ultrasound propagation in porous materials involves some higher order physical parameters whose importance depends on the acoustic characteristics of the materials. This article concerns the study of the influence of two parameters recently introduce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Acoustic Methods for the Characterization, Modeling and Nondestructive Testing of Materials: From Infrasonic to Ultrasonic)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,833 Views
22 Pages

Numerical Study of the Magnetic Field Effects on the Heat Transfer and Entropy Generation Aspects of a Power Law Fluid over an Axisymmetric Stretching Plate Structure

  • Payam Hooshmand,
  • Hamed Rajabzadeh Gatabi,
  • Navid Bagheri,
  • Isma’il Pirzadeh and ,
  • Ashkan Hesabi,
  • Mohammad Yaghoub Abdollahzadeh Jamalabadi and
  • Majid Oveisi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 March 2017

Numerical investigation of the effects of magnetic field strength, thermal radiation, Joule heating, and viscous heating on a forced convective flow of a non-Newtonian, incompressible power law fluid in an axisymmetric stretching sheet with variable...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Work Availability and Exergy Analysis)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,522 Views
15 Pages

3 July 2019

A Couette-Poiseuille flow between parallel plates saturated with porous medium is studied with emphasis on viscous dissipation effect on the temperature field; assuming a fully developed flow, with both plates subjected to unequal and uniform heat fl...

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