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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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Wenjie Shen, Suofang Wang, Mengyuan Wang, Jia Suo and Zhao Zhang
Improving airflow pressure is of great significance for the cooling and sealing of aeroengines. In a co-rotating cavity with radial inflow, vortex reducers are used to decrease the pressure drop. However, the performance of traditional vortex reducers is...
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Qing Ye, Yongpeng Ou, Guo Xiang and Junjie Chen
Over the years, air lubrication technology has been widely applied to maritime vessels, demonstrating its significant energy-saving and emission-reducing effects. However, the application of this technology in inland waterway transportation faces unique ...
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Piotr Bortnowski, Robert Król, Natalia Suchorab-Matuszewska, Maksymilian Ozdoba and Mateusz Szczerbakowicz
This study examines the optimization of ore receiving bins in underground copper mines, targeting the reduction of rapid wear and tear on bin components. The investigation identifies the primary wear contributors as the force exerted by the accumulated o...
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Baoling Cui and Mingyu Shi
Centrifugal pumps are essential fluid transfer devices in marine engineering. As the two most critical components of a centrifugal pump, the dynamic?static interference between the volute and the impeller makes the flow near the cutwater highly unstable,...
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Alexander Hergt, Tobias Danninger, Joachim Klinner, Sebastian Grund, Manfred Beversdorff and Christian Werner-Spatz
In this paper, an experimental and numerical investigation of the effect of leading-edge erosion in transonic blades was performed. The measurements were carried out on a linear blade cascade in the Transonic Cascade Wind Tunnel of DLR in Cologne at two ...
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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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Iosif C. Moulinos, Christos Manopoulos and Sokrates Tsangaris
Peristaltic flow in a straight rectangular duct is examined imposed by contraction pulses implemented by pairs of horizontal cylindrical segments with their axes perpendicular to the flow direction. The wave propagation speed is considered in such a rang...
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Yousef Gharbia, Javad Farrokhi Derakhshandeh, Md. Mahbub Alam and A. M. Amer
Wingtip vortices generated from aircraft wingtips, as a result of the pressure differential at the wingtip, constitute a major component of the total drag force, especially during take-off and landing. In addition to the drag issue, these vortices also p...
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Jafar Jafari-Asl, Seyed Arman Hashemi Monfared and Soroush Abolfathi
This study investigates the optimal and safe operation of pumping stations in water distribution systems (WDSs) with the aim of reducing the environmental footprint of water conveyance processes. We introduced the nonlinear chaotic honey badger algorithm...
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