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Volume 5 Issue 1

January 2015

Issue of Open Engineering

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Topical Issue: 10th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids

Open Access May 26, 2015

Preface to the Special Issue on Engineering Flow and Design

Antonio F. Miguel, Luiz A. O. Rocha, Andreas Öchsner

This paper reports a numerical study on mixed convection within a square enclosure, filled with a mixture of water and Cu (or Ag) nanoparticles. It is assumed that the temperature difference driving the convection comes from the side moving walls, when both horizontal walls are kept insulated. In order to solve the general coupled equations, a code based on the finite volume method is used and it has been validated after comparison between the present results and those of the literature. To make clear the effect of the main parameters on fluid flow and heat transfer inside the enclosure, a wide range of the Richardson number, taken from 0.01 to 100, the nanoparticles volume fraction (0% to 10%), and the cavity inclination angle (0º to 180º) are investigated. The phenomenon is analyzed through streamlines and isotherm plots, with special attention to the Nusselt number.

In the operation of special-purpose turbomachines, diagnostic tools are necessary. They enable control of the machine technical state and its operation parameters in the on-line mode. The acquisition and processing of the measurement data in real time is crucial as they are indicators of the machine functioning under various operating conditions. The paper presents two types of computer designed diagnostic tools to monitor in real time the dynamic and thermodynamic parameters of special-purpose turbomachines. The first one monitors the dynamics of the rotating system with an active magnetic bearing, the second - monitors the instant value of polytropic efficiency of the compression process, which was designed for the industrial machine.

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Volume 5 Issue 1

Issue of Open Engineering

Monitoring the future behaviour of urban drainage system under climate change: a case study from north-western England

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An Adaptive Coordinated Control for an Offshore Wind Farm Connected VSC Based Multi-Terminal DC Transmission System

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Thermoelastic bending analysis of laminated composite plates according to various shear deformation theories

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The variational iteration method for solving the Volterra integro-differential forms of the Lane-Emden and the Emden-Fowler problems with initial and boundary value conditions

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Hydrodynamic investigation of fluvial sediment transport with Soil Protrusion Apparatus (SPA)

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A reliable algorithm for positive solutions of nonlinear boundary value problems by the multistage Adomian decomposition method

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Potential of Cognitive Computing and Cognitive Systems

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Mechanical Properties of Sandy Soil Improved with Cement and Nanosilica

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Preface to the Special Issue on Engineering Flow and Design

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