Blockage effect on wakes of various bluff bodies: A review of confined flow

R Mondal, MM Alam - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In many industrial applications, fluid flow around bluff bodies is confined between two
parallel walls. This paper provides a thorough review of the studies on the confined flow …

A state-of-the-art review of flows past confined circular cylinders

QD Nguyen, W Lu, L Chan, A Ooi, C Lei - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we have reviewed the state-of-the-art of research on flow past a circular
cylinder symmetrically placed between two parallel plates separated by a finite distance …

A study of design fixation, its mitigation and perception in engineering design faculty

JS Linsey, I Tseng, K Fu, J Cagan, KL Wood… - 2010 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The bridge between engineering design and cognitive science research is critical to
understand the effectiveness of design methods as implemented by human designers. The …

Flow past a circular cylinder between parallel walls at low Reynolds numbers

S Singha, KP Sinhamahapatra - Ocean Engineering, 2010 - Elsevier
The flow about a circular cylinder placed centrally inside a channel is studied numerically
with an unstructured collocated grid finite volume method based on the primitive variable …

[HTML][HTML] Three dimensional flow around a circular cylinder confined in a plane channel

N Kanaris, D Grigoriadis, S Kassinos - Physics of fluids, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents two-and three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of the flow
around a circular cylinder placed symmetrically in a plane channel. Results are presented in …

Effect of power-law index on critical parameters for power-law flow across an unconfined circular cylinder

P Sivakumar, RP Bharti, RP Chhabra - Chemical Engineering Science, 2006 - Elsevier
The conditions for the formation of a wake and for the onset of wake instability for the flow of
power-law fluids over an unconfined circular cylinder are investigated numerically by solving …

Forced convection heat transfer from an elliptical cylinder to power-law fluids

RP Bharti, P Sivakumar, RP Chhabra - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2008 - Elsevier
Forced convection heat transfer to incompressible power-law fluids from a heated elliptical
cylinder in the steady, laminar cross-flow regime has been studied numerically. In particular …

Two-dimensional unsteady flow of power-law fluids over a cylinder

VK Patnana, RP Bharti, RP Chhabra - Chemical Engineering Science, 2009 - Elsevier
The unsteady flow of incompressible power-law fluids over an unconfined circular cylinder in
cross-flow arrangement has been studied numerically. The two-dimensional (2-D) field …

Heat transfer analysis of encapsulated phase change material for thermal energy storage

W Zhao, AF Elmozughi, A Oztekin, S Neti - International Journal of Heat and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Transient two dimensional heat transfer analysis is conducted to investigate a high
temperature energy storage using encapsulated phase change materials (EPCMs) for …

Magnetohydrodynamic mixed convection and entropy generation analysis of Al2O3-water nanofluid past a confined circular cylinder

D Sáchica, E Salcedo, C Treviño… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations are carried out for transient magnetohydrodynamic mixed convective
heat transfer of alumina–water nanofluid flow past an isothermal circular cylinder confined in …