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Manchester, Emily Louise (author), Pirola, S. (author), Pirola, Sergio (author), Mastroiacovo, Giorgio (author), Polvani, Gianluca (author), Pontone, Gianluca (author), Xu, Xiao Yun (author)Aortic valve disease is often treated with bioprosthetic valves. An alternative treatment is aortic valve neocuspidization which is a relatively new reparative procedure whereby the three aortic cusps are replaced with patient pericardium or bovine tissues. Recent research indicates that aortic blood flow is disturbed, and turbulence effects...journal article 2024
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Noel, L.F.P. (author), Maute, K. (author)Solving conjugate heat transfer design problems is relevant for various engineering applications requiring efficient thermal management. Heat exchange between fluid and solid can be enhanced by optimizing the system layout and the shape of the flow channels. As heat is transferred at fluid/solid interfaces, it is crucial to accurately resolve...journal article 2023
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Agresti, A. (author)This paper is concerned with the problem of regularization by noise of systems of reaction–diffusion equations with mass control. It is known that strong solutions to such systems of PDEs may blow-up in finite time. Moreover, for many systems of practical interest, establishing whether the blow-up occurs or not is an open question. Here we...journal article 2023
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Diez Sanhueza, R.G. (author), Akkerman, I. (author), Peeters, J.W.R. (author)Turbulent flows past rough surfaces can create substantial energy losses in engineering equipment. During the last decades, developing accurate correlations to predict the thermal and hydrodynamic behavior of rough surfaces has proven to be a difficult challenge. In this work, we investigate the applicability of convolutional neural networks...journal article 2023
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Estrella, Jorge (author), Wüthrich, D. (author), Chanson, Hubert (author)A hydraulic jump is a region of rapidly-varied flow that is extremely turbulent. While the one-dimensional continuity and momentum principles have been successfully applied to express the relationships between upstream and downstream conditions, the three-dimensional equations cannot be resolved without some complicated turbulence closure,...journal article 2022
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Silvestri, S. (author)Radiative heat transfer has a large influence in engineering systems, especially when the temperature involved is elevated. For this reason a correct assessment of heat transfer in presence of radiation is of great importance in high temperature and pressure equipment such as combustion chambers, heat exchangers as well as reentry vehicles and...doctoral thesis 2021
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Wani, F.M. (author)Among different ways of harnessing tidal energy, tidal stream turbines are gaining popularity over traditional tidal dams. This is owing to the lower capital cost, and potentially lower ecological impact of tidal turbines. However, compared to more developed sources of energy, tidal energy remains expensive, which impedes its large-scale...doctoral thesis 2021
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El Abbassi, M. (author), Lahaye, D.J.P. (author), Vuik, Cornelis (author)One of the quickest ways to influence both the wall temperature and thermal NOx emissions in rotary kilns is to change the air–fuel ratio (AFR). The normalized counterpart of the AFR, the equivalence ratio, is usually associated with premixed flames and studies of its influence on diffusion flames are inconsistent, depending on the application....journal article 2021
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Lahaye, D.J.P. (author), El Abbassi, M. (author), Vuik, Cornelis (author), Talice, Marco (author), Juretic, F. (author)This work studies how non-premixed turbulent combustion in a rotary kiln depends on the<br/>geometry of the secondary air inlet channel. We target a kiln in which temperatures can reach values above 1800 degrees Kelvin. Monitoring and possible mitigation of the thermal nitric-oxide (NOx) formation is of utmost importance. The performed reactive...journal article 2021
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Perinajová, R. (author), Juffermans, J.F. (author), Mercado, Jonhatan Lorenzo (author), Aben, Jean Paul (author), Ledoux, Leon (author), Westenberg, Jos J.M. (author), Lamb, Hildo J. (author), Kenjeres, S. (author)In this study, we analyzed turbulent flows through a phantom (a 180<sup>∘</sup> bend with narrowing) at peak systole and a patient-specific coarctation of the aorta (CoA), with a pulsating flow, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). For MRI, a 4D-flow MRI is performed using a 3T scanner. For CFD, the...journal article 2021
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Doan, Nguyen Anh Khoa (author), Polifke, Wolfgang (author), Magri, Luca (author)We present an Auto-Encoded Reservoir-Computing (AE-RC) approach to learn the dynamics of a 2D turbulent flow. The AE-RC consists of an Autoencoder, which discovers an efficient manifold representation of the flow state, and an Echo State Network, which learns the time evolution of the flow in the manifold. The AE-RC is able to both learn the...conference paper 2021
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Pestana, T. (author)Using direct numerical simulations, this thesis studies primarily fundamental aspects of homogeneous rotating turbulence. Within this context, we first investigate the transition from a split to a forward kinetic energy cascade system with a parametric study covering large aspect ratio domains, which are in the direction of rotation up to 340...doctoral thesis 2020
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Broekema, Y.B. (author)The Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier is an icon of Dutch hydraulic engineering. Downstream of the barrier, large local erosion pits (scour holes) have formed adjacent to the applied bed protection after its construction. It was expected during the design phase that these would develop, but both the magnitude of the scour hole depth as well as...doctoral thesis 2020
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Verbeek, Merel C. (author), Labeur, R.J. (author), Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (author)Coastal infrastructure, such as bridges and storm surge barriers with weirs, provides an attractive location for harvesting renewable energy using tidal turbines. Often stone layers are applied downstream of coastal infrastructure to protect the sea bed from erosion. However, little is known about the potential effect of tidal energy...journal article 2020
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Ouro, Pablo (author), Juez, Carmelo (author), Franca, M.J. (author)Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) are used to investigate the governing processes involved in mass and momentum transfer between the flow in the main channel and symmetrically-distributed lateral bank cavities. In-cavity free-surface velocities, based on laboratory measurements made in an open channel, are used to validate the numerical results. A...journal article 2020
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Wani, F.M. (author), Shipurkar, U. (author), Dong, J. (author), Polinder, H. (author), Jarquin Laguna, A. (author), Mostafa, Kaswar (author), Lavidas, G. (author)Thermal cycling is one of the major reasons for failure in power electronic converters. For submerged tidal turbine converters investigating this failure mode is critical in improving the reliability, and minimizing the cost of energy from tidal turbines. This paper considers a submerged tidal turbine converter which is passively cooled by...journal article 2020
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Flores, Raúl P. (author), Rijnsburger, S. (author), Horner-Devine, Alexander R. (author), Kumar, Nirnimesh (author), Souza, Alejandro J. (author), Pietrzak, J.D. (author)This study investigates the influence of tidal straining in the generation of turbidity maximum zones (TMZ), which are observed to extend for tens of kilometers along some shallow, open coastal seas. Idealized numerical simulations are conducted to reproduce the cross-shore dynamics and tidal straining in regions of freshwater influence ...journal article 2020
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Basu, S. (author), Osborn, J. (author), He, P. (author), DeMarco, A. W. (author)The high-fidelity modelling of optical turbulence is critical to the design and operation of a new class of emerging highly sophisticated astronomical telescopes and adaptive optics instrumentation. In this study, we perform retrospective simulations of optical turbulence over the Hawaiian islands using a mesoscale model. The simulated...journal article 2020
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Mukherjee, S. (author)The mixing of two immiscible fluids, often under turbulent conditions, can lead to the formation of an emulsion, where droplets of one fluid are embedded in another fluid. The occurrence of emulsions is commonplace across industries, ranging from the oil industry to food processing and biotechnology. Why emulsions serve diverse applications, in...doctoral thesis 2019
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Verbeek, Merel C. (author), Labeur, R.J. (author), Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (author)Coastal infrastructure, such as bridges and storm surge barriers with weirs, provides an attractive location for harvesting renewable energy using tidal turbines. Often stone layers are applied downstream of coastal infrastructure to protect the sea bed from erosion. However, little is known about the potential effect of tidal energy extraction...conference paper 2019