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Hannes Zöschg
Trash racks installed at hydropower plants cause head losses that reduce energy output. Previous research has thoroughly investigated head losses through both experimental and field studies. However, only a limited number of numerical studies have been p...
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Abdelrahman S. Abdeldayem, Salma I. Salah, Omar A. Aqel, Martin T. White and Abdulnaser I. Sayma
Supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) can be mixed with dopants such as titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4), hexafluoro-benzene (C6F6), and sulphur dioxide (SO2) to raise the critical temperature of the working fluid, allowing it to condense at ambient temperat...
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Ming Qi, Wenguo Zhu and Shu Li
The flight of a migratory bird-like flapping-wing aircraft is characterized by a low Reynolds number and unsteadiness. The selection of airfoil profiles is critical to designing an efficient flapping-wing aircraft. To choose the suitable airfoil for vari...
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Shuliang Xie, Gang Wang, Enmao Wang, Qiming Huang and Mingze Xia
Coal fire remains one of the main hazards of underground work. Spontaneous coal fires cause serious casualties and property losses. At present, most of the studies on coal spontaneous combustion have been conducted on working faces shorter than 200 m. Ho...
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Muhammad Waqas Zaffar, Ishtiaq Haasan and Abdul Razzaq Ghumman
The present study investigated the performance of three different stilling basins, i.e., modified United State Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) Type III, USBR Type II, and wedge-shaped baffle blocks (WSBB), using FLOW-3D scour models. Field data of the river...
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Ke Hu, Xinglan Bai and Murilo A. Vaz
To investigate the different influencing characteristics of local scour around submarine pipelines, hydrodynamic and sediment transport two-dimensional models based on Flow-3D are used to numerically simulate the local scour around the pipeline under ste...
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Wenqiang Dong, Ligang Yao and Weilin Luo
A model of a submerged angular cavitation nozzle is established, which consists of a contraction part, parallel middle part, and expansion part. Based on the CFD technique, a numerical simulation of the flow field of the submerged cavitation nozzle is ca...
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Annelie Ehrhardt, Sylvia Koszinski and Horst H. Gerke
Lateral subsurface flow (LSF) is a phenomenon that is widely occurring including the hummocky ground moraine landscape. Due to the heterogeneous structure of the subsurface, transport times of pesticides and nutrients from agricultural areas to adjacent ...
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Xiaohan Xu, Xudong Huang, Dianfang Bi and Ming Zhou
Aerodynamic compressor designs require considerable prior knowledge and a deep understanding of complex flow fields. With the development of computer science, artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely applied to compressors design. Among the various A...
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Nikhil Iyengar, Dushhyanth Rajaram and Dimitri Mavris
Uncertainties in the atmosphere and flight conditions can drastically impact the performance of an aircraft and result in certification delays. However, uncertainty propagation in high-fidelity simulations, which have become integral to the design proces...
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