Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been applied to deal with flow and heat transfer
problems over the past two decades. In the present paper, recent work on the applications of …

An accurate determination of the pressure gradient is required for efficient designing of oil
and gas wells and pipe systems. Despite the recent improvements in accuracy of models …

Venturi-type bubble generator has a broad application in various fields and its performance
depends on its geometrical size to a great extent. In present work, bubble movement, and …

In order to enhance the spray for dust suppression performance in a fully-mechanized
mining face, based on orthogonal test, comparison test, numerical simulation and field …

The importance of heavy oil in the world oil market has increased over the past twenty years
as light oil reserves have declined steadily. The high viscosity of this kind of unconventional …

Due to stringent regulations of safety of nuclear power plants, numerous efforts have been
made to remove particulate matter and gaseous pollutants from a gas stream prior to its …

In this paper, a novel approach is presented to the measurement of wet gas flows by using a
throat-extended Venturi meter (TEVM) and soft-computing approximation techniques …

Although rotating beds are good equipments for intensified separations and multiphase
reactions, but the fundamentals of its hydrodynamics are still unknown. In the wide range of …

ABSTRACT The index of Erodible Fraction (EF) component against wind is well known as a
criteria of soil wind erodibility. This study was conducted to estimate the index of EF by …

The existence of droplets in an annular flow has a non-negligible influence on the mass
transfer and heat transfer between phases, and a phase property, such as liquid viscosity …