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Shouyuan Zhang, Xin Wang and Haitao Ma
With the widespread use of sector gates in tidal river locks, there is a growing interest in the operating force during the gate operation. This study investigates the characteristics of operating forces in a sector gate hydraulic cylinder system using p...
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Dongfeng Yan, Zehang Zhao, Anchen Song, Fengming Li, Lu Ye, Ganchao Zhao and Shan Ma
The fluidic pintle nozzle, a new method to control the thrust of a solid rocket motor, has been proposed in recent years by combining the pintle with the aerodynamic throat (fluidic throat). The study of static characteristics has proved that it has a re...
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Forough Alizadeh Sanami, Amir Ghaderi, Fardin Alizadeh Sanami, Parisa Mirkhorli and Silvia Di Francesco
A piano key weir (PKW), a new type of weir aiming to increase the discharge capacity of an existing dam, was recently designed. Despite a large body of research in this field, only a few studies were conducted on A-type triangular piano key weirs (TPKW) ...
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Minquan Liao, Qiaorui Si, Meng Fan, Peng Wang, Zhonghai Liu, Shouqi Yuan, Qianglei Cui and Gérard Bois
Results on overall pump head and efficiency performance, pressure pulsation and high speed camera visualization of flow patterns behavior are presented for different inlet air-water void fractions at a given rotational speed. With the increase of inlet v...
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Jinchao Xu, Qiong Chen, Yun Li, Jianxu Zhou, Jianfeng An, Xiujun Yan and Yan Guo
Generally, the operation of the horizontally-framed miter gate in a ship lock should consider the effects of hydrodynamic resistance. If over-filling or over-emptying exists and the miter gate opens with reverse head, the hydrodynamic resistance will inc...
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Pasquale Contestabile and Diego Vicinanza
In arid, coastal cities, water demand is often met through large-scale desalination systems. However, the energy required to run desalination plants remains a drawback. Further, numerous low-density population areas lack not only fresh water availability...
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