... HYDRODYNAMIC AND DISPERSION BEHAVIOUR OF AN ANALYTICAL SILICA MONOLITH RECONSTRUCTED FROM SUB-MICROTOMOGRAPHIC SCANS USINGCOMPUTATIONALFLUIDDYNAMICS VIVEK VASUDEVAN (M.S., West Virginia ... University Dept of Chemical Technology, India) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2013 ... studies and look ahead in life iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS II DECLARATION IV TABLE OF CONTENTS V SUMMARY IX LIST OF TABLES XI LIST OF FIGURES XII LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS XVII INTRODUCTION...
... a given size The calculation of the diameter of the chamber is based on the required period ofdryingof a particle of given dimensions and of the radial course of its trajectory Values obtained ... hostile environments in the drying chamber during the spray drying running 2.4 Dryingof the droplets 2.4.1 Experiments and models for droplet drying Evaporation and dryingof droplets occurs as soon ... Figure 2.7 Drying rate curve for the drying history of a droplet Most of the models developed up to date for dryingof a single droplet are based on one main assumption, i.e., the absence of temperature...
... MODELLING OF WIND LOAD ON TALL BUILDINGS USINGCOMPUTATIONALFLUIDDYNAMICS TON THI TU ANH (B.Eng (Hons)) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING ... Response of Tall Buildings CHAPTER CHAPTER 2.3.1 Governing Equations of Motion 21 2.3.2 Solution of MDOF equations: Rayleigh-Ritz Method 22 COMPUTATIONAL MODELS 3.1 Auxiliary Simulation of Spatial ... Functions 81 iii SUMMARY Numerical modeling of wind load on tall buildings is studied in details in this thesis using the principles ofcomputationalfluiddynamics Spatial-developing boundary layer...
... between building simulation and computationalfluiddynamics (CFD) can be a promising way for better prediction of building performance 2.1.2 ComputationalFluiddynamics CFD has become a vital ... the aspect of indoor air velocity prediction The integration of building simulation (BS) and computationalfluiddynamics (CFD) simulation provides a way to assess the performance of natural ... frequency of occurrence of particular wind conditions in May 198 Figure App.1.5 The frequency of occurrence of particular wind conditions in Jun 198 Figure App.1.6 The frequency of occurrence of...
... study of a PEM fuel cell performance using 3D multi-phase computationalfluiddynamics model Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE-A 2007; 8(2): 285-300 [30] Lampinen, M.J.; Fomino, M Analysis of ... dehumidification of the membrane may occur, resulting in deterioration of protonic conductivity In the extreme case of complete drying, local burnout of the membrane can result Figure 5b shows profiles ... environment of fuel cell systems has stimulated efforts to develop models that could simulate and predict multi-dimensional coupled transport of reactants, heat and charged species usingcomputational fluid...
... understanding of VAWT can be achieved through the use ofComputationalFluidDynamics and experimental measurements [11] The objective of the present study is to analyze the performance of an airfoil ... blades of the model had the provision for change of H/D ratios using nuts and bolts The cross-sectional area of the wind tunnel test section was 30 cm x 30 cm of length meters The description of ... Figure (a) Variation of Ct with TSR, and (b) deviation ofcomputational Ct from experimental Cp for H/D ratio 0.85 (a) (b) Figure (a) Variation of Cp with TSR, and (b) deviation ofcomputational Cp...
... mathematical structure is the theory of linear algebra and the attendant eigenanalysis of linear systems The ultimate goal of the eld ofcomputational uid dynamics (CFD) is to understand the physical ... eld of aerodynamics, all of these phenomena are governed by the compressible Navier-Stokes equations Many of the most important aspects of these relations are nonlinear and, as a consequence, often ... book 1.2 Background The eld ofcomputational uid dynamics has a broad range of applicability Independent of the speci c application under study, the following sequence of steps generally must be...
... mathematical structure is the theory of linear algebra and the attendant eigenanalysis of linear systems The ultimate goal of the eld ofcomputational uid dynamics (CFD) is to understand the physical ... eld of aerodynamics, all of these phenomena are governed by the compressible Navier-Stokes equations Many of the most important aspects of these relations are nonlinear and, as a consequence, often ... book 1.2 Background The eld ofcomputational uid dynamics has a broad range of applicability Independent of the speci c application under study, the following sequence of steps generally must be...
... driven into walls • ComputationalFluidDynamics (CFD): It forms the subject of this book, and as already mentioned designates the software tools that allow the analysis of the fluid flow, including ... to the definition of temperature as a measure of the mean kinetic energy of the gas molecules; to a definition of pressure as a result of the impulse of molecules on the walls of the body containing ... properties of a large number of interacting elements The same is true for another domain of scientific knowledge, namely thermodynamics, which is also the study of systems of large numbers of interacting...
... studies, computational studies have also aided understanding of the dynamical behaviors of this pathway and how it interacts with other pathways [2,10-13] The wnt pathway is one of the computationally ... estimated [2] Effects of wnt signaling and changes of activity of some components on the kinetics of the pathway can be investigated by solving kinetic rate law equations [2] A number of the effects ... ratio The dependence of the kG/kG' ratio on β-catenin level is shown in Figure 2, a plot of ratio of βcatenin level versus kG that represents the strength of phosphorylation of GSK3β by other kinases...
... concentration of mg/mL ~ mg/mL (a) EMZF@PEG ferrofluid, (b) conventional Mn0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4@PEG ferrofluid, and (c) Fe3O4@PEG ferrofluid The specific loss power (SLP) of all the ferrofluids calculated ... measuring AC heating of Co- and Fe-ferrofluids with different viscosities Figure (b), and (c) show the dependence of surrounding viscosity of Co-ferrofluid, and Fe-ferrofluid on the AC magnetically-induced ... Improvement of induction efficiency of HSPs 72 – control of increasing rate of AC heating stress 7.4.4 148 Improvement of induction efficiency of HSPs 72 – control of duty cycle of AC heating...
... numerical solution of the equations offluid mechanics on computers has been developed into an important subject offluid dynamics, i.e., computationalfluiddynamics (CFD) The core of CFD is to construct ... Introduction 1.1 Background ofcomputationalfluiddynamics 1.1.1 Governing equations for fluid flows The physical aspects offluid flows are governed by the conservation principles of mass, momentum and ... DEVELOPMENT OF MESH-FREE METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN COMPUTATIONALFLUIDDYNAMICS DING HANG (B Eng., M Eng.) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL...
... stands for walls 2.3 ComputationalFluidDynamics (CFD) ComputationalFluidDynamics (CFD) modelling and simulation is becoming an essential tool in almost every domain where fluiddynamics are involved ... this study, ComputationalFluidDynamics (CFD) models have been developed to facilitate a better understanding of the baking process The transient simulation of the continuous movement of dough/bread ... accuracy and resolution of the results obtained depend on the number of cells defined: the usage of more cells yields more details of the flow field on the expense of more computational effort (i.e...
... reduction equivalent dose (RED) in off-site validation of UV reactor and computational validation by CFD model OFF-SITE BIODOSIMETRIC TESTING OF UV REACTOR The off - site biodosimetric tests with ... 254nm UV output×Number of lamps/Volume of reactor (12) It was founded that the higher UV density leads to higher β values VALIDATION OF UV REACTOR BY COMPUTATIONALFLUIDDYNAMICS MODEL To know ... path of the particle (microbes) in the reactor and the UV intensity in the reactor as a function of position The particle trajectory calculations can be performed by computationalfluid dynamics...
... increase of 251 A2 in the solvent accessible surface area of the protein Comparisons of the side chain solvent accessibility of the X-ray structure of RBP (without retinol bound) with that of the ... the second set of strands All of the b-strands present in native RBP show a high level of persistence in the group conformers (Figs and 3) However, in many of the structures some of these strands ... stabilize the binding of retinol to RBP Studies of the interactions of chimaera of RBP and epididymal retinoic acid binding protein (ERABP) with TTR have identified the region of the RBP sequence...
... solution of equations of motion of the fluid as well as with the interaction of the fluid with solid bodies The equations of motion of an inviscid fluid (Euler equations) and of viscous fluid (Navier-Stokes ... important quantities at each point of the fluid The derivation of the principal equations offluiddynamics is based on the fact that the dynamical behaviour of a fluid is determined by the following ... Brauschweig and of Dimitri Mavriplis from ICASE, who provided several pictures of surface grids of transport aircraft configurations Xlll List of Symbols Jacobian of convective fluxes Jacobian of viscous...
... ComputationalFluidDynamics 2010 Alexander Kuzmin Editor ComputationalFluidDynamics 2010 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on ComputationalFluid Dynamics, ICCFD6, ... idlof Institute of Thermomechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 182 00 Prague 8, Czech Republic, sidlof@it.cas.cz Jakub ớstek Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of the ... Dumbser Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Trento I-38100 Trento TN, Italy; Institute of Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics, Universitọt...
... University of Milan, Italy A.C.M Sousa University of New Brunswick, Canada G De Mey University of Ghent, Belgium D.B Spalding CHAM, UK S del Guidice University of Udine, Italy J Szmyd University of Mining ... Agricultural University of Athens, Greece This page intentionally left blank ComputationalFluidDynamics Transf ransfer and Heat Transfer EMERGING TOPICS Editors R.S Amano University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, ... Prediction of rotating channel flow using NLEDMM 316 8.9.2 Prediction of rotating channel-flow heat transfer using NLEDHM 322 Concluding Remarks 327 Analytical wall-functions of turbulence...
... Astrophysical FluidDynamics are discussed and available at [3] On the calculation experiment technology Prof V.F.Minin is the winner of the State premium of the USSR 4 ComputationalFluidDynamics ... line indicates disruption of continuity of the velocity profile along the wall Examples The basic aspects of the technology of the computational experiment (CE), principles of program-technical systems ... leadership of Professor Vladilen F Minin (Novosibirsk, USSR) on the basic of experience of development and usage of similar systems for 35 years and designed for realization of mass computational...