CFD Simulation of Thermal-Hydraulic Benchmark V1000CT-2 Using ANSYS CFX by Thomas Höhne

“…Plant measured data from VVER-1000 coolant mixing experiments were used within the OECD/NEA and AER coupled code benchmarks for light water reactors to test and validate computational fluid dynamic (CFD) codes. The task is to compare the various calculations with measured data, using specified boundary conditions and core power distributions. …”
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Numerical Study to Investigate the Performance of U-shaped Flat Plate Solar Collector Using Phase Change Materials (PCMs) by Ibrahim Lazim Ihnayyish, Ahmed Qasim Ahmed, Abdulrahman Th. Mohammad, Ali Khalid Shaker Al-Syyab

“…And mass flow rate 0.5 L\min, A validated computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model was used in this examination. …”
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Time-Dependent Effects of Glaze Ice on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of an Airfoil by Narges Tabatabaei, Michel J. Cervantes, Chirag Trivedi

“…The computational fluid dynamic analysis was conducted to investigate the effect of critical ice accretions on a 0.610 m chord NACA 0011 airfoil. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Oil Jet Lubrication for High Speed Gears by Tommaso Fondelli, Antonio Andreini, Riccardo Da Soghe, Bruno Facchini, Lorenzo Cipolla

“…Further improvement of efficiency can be achieved developing a physical understanding of fluid dynamic losses within the transmission system. …”
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Numerical study of evaporation–condensation heat transfer in finned double pipe heat exchangers by Junrong Yang, Tianming Zhong, Xin Yan, Haokun Li, Zhilin He, Haoxian Bai, Shiwen Fang

“…In this study, the effects of inner and outer tube diameter combinations and inlet velocity on heat transfer performance, pressure drop, and thermal performance are systematically analyzed through computational fluid dynamic simulation. Results show a significant difference in heat transfer performance under different conditions. …”
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Antimony recovery from copper refining electrolyte by membrane electrolysis by Belén Garrido, Javiera Lara, Juan Moreno, Alexandre Giacobbo, Eduardo Pino, Gerardo Cifuentes, Andréa Moura Bernardes

“…These results were obtained in a cell with the catholyte compartment closed at the top, showing the importance of the fluid-dynamic effect of the cell design on the Sb recovery.…”
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Geometrical comparison of inline and staggered stack wire mesh absorbers for solar volumetric receivers by Daniel Sanchez-Señoran, Miguel A. Reyes-Belmonte, Michael P. Kinzel, Marina Casanova, Antonio L. Avila-Marin

“…The model is experimentally validated and subsequently used to evaluate the generalised correlations (GCs) obtained for the thermo-fluid-dynamic attributes with those derived from the individual correlations (ICs). …”
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Numerical Study on the Thermal Performance of Trombe Wall for Passive Solar Building in Semiarid Climate by Maher Dhahri, Nima Khalilpoor, Hana Aouinet, Alibek Issakhov, Habib Sammouda, Sampath Emani

“…In this research, a numerical study is presented to investigate the thermal behavior of TW-FR (Trombe wall placed in a fenestrated room) in the semiarid region of Tunisia. Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation of fluid flow and heat transfer shows good agreement with published data in literature. …”
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The Influence of the Packing Factor on the Fuel Temperature Hot Spots in a Particle-Bed GCFR by G. Lomonaco, W. Grassi, N. Cerullo

“…In order to have reliable “global” nuclear and thermal-fluid-dynamic data, the performed analyses will be based on simulations previously performed using the RELAP5-3D code, assuming as input parameters the ETDR core ones. …”
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Improvement of thermohydraulic performance of flow based on novel dimpled tubes on response surface methodology and Taguchi technique-fitted experiment design by Ahmed Ramadhan Al-Obaidi, Anas Alwatban

“…Compared to smooth pipe, optimal design of dimpled pipe was improved approximately 35.8% and 36.2%, according to results of an orthogonal experiment conducted in this investigation using the computational fluid dynamic method with DOE, RSM, and TM for temperature differences and rate of heat. …”
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Light Hydrocarbon Geochemistry: Insight into Mississippian Crude Oil Sources from the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma, USA by Ibrahim Atwah, Stephen Sweet, John Pantano, Anthony Knap

“…Variations in phenol concentrations reflect reservoir fluid dynamic and water interactions, in which oils with intact phenols are least affected by water-washing conversely and crude oils depleted in phenols attributed to reservoir water-washing. …”
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Performance of Partial and Cavity Type Squealer Tip of a HP Turbine Blade in a Linear Cascade by Levent Kavurmacioglu, Hidir Maral, Cem Berk Senel, Cengiz Camci

“…In the present paper, flow structure through the tip gap was comprehensively investigated by computational fluid dynamic (CFD) methods. Numerical calculations were obtained by solving three-dimensional, incompressible, steady, and turbulent form of the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations using a general purpose and three-dimensional viscous flow solver. …”
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Advancements in mathematical modeling and numerical simulation: Immersed boundary method for Navier-Stokes equations applied to stationary and rotating isothermal cylinders by Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos, Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales

“…These phenomena are prevalent in various scenarios, such as oil extraction platforms, power transmission lines, and fluid-structure interactions, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of vortex generation, heat transfer, and fluid dynamic forces. We employ the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) to simulate two-dimensional, incompressible flows around stationary and rotating heated (isothermal) cylinders. …”
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Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Model for Bridge Appearance Defect Detection by Rong Pang, Yan Yang, Aiguo Huang, Yan Liu, Peng Zhang, Guangwu Tang

“…Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated on the bridge disease dataset and public computational fluid dynamic dataset.…”
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Traveling wave solutions of a hybrid KdV-Burgers equation with arbitrary real coefficients in relation with beam-permeated multi-ion plasma fluids by Kuldeep Singh, Steffy Sara Varghese, Ioannis Kourakis

“…Abstract The Korteweg de Vries-Burgers (KdV-B) (1+1) equation $$\begin{aligned} \frac{\partial \psi }{\partial t} +a \, \psi \frac{\partial \psi }{\partial x} + b \, \frac{\partial ^{3}\psi }{\partial x^{3}} = c \, \frac{\partial ^{2} \psi }{\partial x^2} \,, \end{aligned}$$ incorporating constant (real) coefficients representing nonlinearity (a), dispersion (b) and dissipation (c), is a long known paradigm in e.g. plasma physics, where it can be derived from plasma fluid-dynamical models, so that all coefficients depend parametrically on the plasma composition. …”
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Numerical analysis of transonic flow over the FFA-W3-211 wind turbine tip airfoil by M. C. Vitulano, M. C. Vitulano, D. De Tavernier, G. De Stefano, D. von Terzi

“…The results are obtained by means of the application of numerical tools: (1) XFOIL with the Prandtl–Glauert compressible correction and (2) computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations, where an unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS) model is used. …”
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Numerical Study on Combustion Behavior of Tuyere and Raceway in Blast Furnace with Oxygen-Rich Blast and Hydrogen Injection by Ruimeng Shi, Yue Pei, Mengmeng Ren, Zheng Xue, Xinqi Li, Heping Liu

“…A three-dimensional computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model is developed to investigate the effect of hydrogen injection rate and blast oxygen enrichment rate on the tuyere, raceway, and surrounding coke bed behaviors. …”
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Design of a Medium Scale Ambient PM2.5 Cleaning System by Sheng-Chieh Chen, Qingfeng Cao, Thomas H. Kuehn, Charles Lo, Manoranjan Sahu, Yelia S. Mayya, David Y. H. Pui

“…In this study, a medium-scale filter-based blower-driven cleaning system was designed based on a computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation and experiments. We found the system with a dimension of 20 m (L) × 20 m (W) × 23 m (H) using 40 sets of 40-HP blowers can output ~1000 m3 s−1 (CMS) of cleaned air. …”
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Model-Based Optimization of a Sliding Vane Rotary Pump for Micro-Organic Rankine Cycle by Fabio Fatigati, Giammarco Di Giovine, Roberto Cipollone

“…Moreover, the model allowed for a detailed analysis of efficiency, evaluating the volumetric, fluid dynamic and mechanical behaviors. Results demonstrated that the weakest point was the mechanical efficiency, which was between 0.45 and 0.55. …”
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