A review of bluff body wakes

JF Derakhshandeh, MM Alam - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
The application of an unsteady viscous flow around a bluff body has covered a wide range
of scientific fields. This paper reviews the wakes of different cross-sectional bluff bodies …

[HTML][HTML] A fundamental investigation of gas/solid mass transfer in open-cell foams using a combined experimental and CFD approach

M Bracconi, M Ambrosetti, M Maestri, G Groppi… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this work, we combine numerical (CFD) simulations and experimental measurements in a
fundamental investigation of the fluid-solid mass transfer properties of open-cell foams …

Analysis of heat transfer around bluff bodies with variable inlet turbulent intensity: A numerical simulation

SC Murmu, S Bhattacharyya, H Chattopadhyay… - … Communications in Heat …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present study, a numerical simulation is carried out to analyze the effect of turbulent
intensity on the flow behavior of flow past two dimensional bluff bodies. Triangular prism …

Discrete particle model for convective AL2O3–water nanofluid around a triangular obstacle

S Rashidi, M Bovand, JA Esfahani, G Ahmadi - Applied Thermal …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, the discrete particle model was used to determine the concentration
distribution and particle trajectories in a nanofluid flowing around a triangular obstacle …

Flow structures around trapezoidal cylinders and their hydrodynamic characteristics: Effects of the base length ratio and attack angle

H Zhu, T Tang, T Zhou, H Liu, J Zhong - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This paper reports the results of a numerical investigation into the flow around trapezoidal
cylinders with various base length ratios and the associated wake structures. Seven base …

Structural optimization of nanofluid flow around an equilateral triangular obstacle

S Rashidi, M Bovand, JA Esfahani - Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Convective heat transfer of Al 2 O 3–water nanofluid over an equilateral triangular obstacle
with an optimization analysis is carried out to determine the optimum conditions for the …

Fluid flow and heat transfer around a confined semi-circular cylinder: onset of vortex shedding and effects of Reynolds and Prandtl numbers

A Kumar, A Dhiman, L Baranyi - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2016 - Elsevier
Flow and heat transfer characteristics around a semi-circular cylinder placed in a confined
channel are investigated in the unsteady regime. The two-dimensional simulations are …

Rectification of mobile Leidenfrost droplets by planar ratchets

J Li, X Zhou, Y Zhang, C Hao, F Zhao, M Li, H Tang… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The self‐transportation of mobile Leidenfrost droplets with well‐defined direction and
velocity on millimetric ratchets is one of the most representative and spectacular phenomena …

Enhancement of heat transfer by nanofluids and orientations of the equilateral triangular obstacle

M Bovand, S Rashidi, JA Esfahani - Energy conversion and management, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper simulates the forced convective heat transfer of Al 2 O 3–water nanofluid over an
equilateral triangular obstacle. Computations are performed for different orientations of the …

Two-dimensional wake dynamics behind cylinders with triangular cross-section under incidence angle variation

ZY Ng, T Vo, WK Hussam, GJ Sheard - Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2016 - Elsevier
The wakes behind cylinders having an equilateral triangular cross-section are studied
numerically for various cylinder inclinations and Reynolds numbers. For steady flows, the …