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Irene Fernández García, Daniele Novara and Aonghus Mc Nabola
Pressure Reducing Valves (PRV) have been widely used as a device to control pressure at nodes in water distribution networks and thus reduce leakages. However, an energy dissipation takes place during PRV operation. Thus, micro-hydropower turbines and, m...
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Murat Gulen and Havvanur Kilic
In this study, full-scale laboratory tests were conducted on a 315 mm diameter HDPE pipe under shallow buried and localised surface loading conditions to investigate the effects of pipe deflection and arching on stress distribution and the lateral earth ...
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Yadong Zhu, Haifeng Jiao, Shihui Wang, Wenbo Zhu, Mengcheng Wang and Songshan Chen
In order to study the pressure pulsation characteristics and structural dynamic response characteristics of a vertical shaft cross-flow pump, this study used a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) numerical simulation method to analyze the pressure pulsati...
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Jiahao Chen, Jiaxin Li, Deqian Zheng, Qianru Zheng, Jiayi Zhang, Meimei Wu and Chaosai Liu
The multi-field coupling of grain piles in grain silos is a focal point of research in the field of grain storage. The porosity of grain piles is a critical parameter that affects the heat and moisture transfer in grain piles. To investigate the distribu...
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Lijun Ma, Meng Sun and Yunlong Zhang
In order to facilitate waste glass recycling and enable the monitoring of concrete structures, this study prepares a new type of self-sensing engineered cementitious composite (ECC) via the use of glass sand instead of silica sand. The health monitoring ...
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Joana Carneiro, Dália Loureiro, Marta Cabral and Dídia Covas
This paper presents and demonstrates a novel scenario-building methodology that integrates contextual and future time uncertainty into the performance assessment of water distribution networks (WDNs). A three-step approach is proposed: (i) System context...
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Yunfeng Wu, Qingkuo Li, Hang Yuan, Ziliang Li, Shiji Zhou, Ge Han and Xingen Lu
High-pressure ratio centrifugal compressors? diffusers face challenges from high-velocity, non-uniform flow at the impeller outlet, decreasing efficiency and stall margin. To address this, this paper presents a novel vaned diffuser passage design method ...
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Bojan Milovanovic, Predrag Vojt, Budo Zindovic, Vladan Kuzmanovic and Ljubodrag Savic
This paper presents a methodology for estimation of hydrodynamic loads acting on the bottom and at the walls of a stilling basin of a stepped chute with converging walls, based on the pressure measurements at the selected points of a scale model. This is...
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Guodong Zhang, Changjiang Wang, Shuzhan Bai, Guoxiang Li, Ke Sun and Hao Cheng
To further improve the performance of the Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC), in this paper, we designed a blocked flow channel with trapezoidal baffles, and geometric parameters of the baffle were optimized based on CFD simulation, Artificial Ne...
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Haydar Aygun
A computational and theoretical investigation of acoustical and vibrational properties of rigid thin fiberglass material was carried out for different boundary conditions. Fiberglass materials could be applied in industries varying from the aircraft and ...
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