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Moya, R. (author), Salim, F. (author), Williams, M. (author), Sharaidin, K. (author)The aims of the Flexing Wind project, investigated in an intensive cross-disciplinary course, were twofold. First was to learn about aerodynamic phenomena around buildings. Second was to explore ways to observe, measure, and control the negative effects of wind around specific pedestrian areas, tram stops, and public sites in Melbourne City....conference paper 2013
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Saldi, Z.S. (author)Extending the weldability of novel materials, and improving the weld quality by tailoring weld microstructures are key factors to obtain the welding techniques demanded in the modern manufacturing industries. This can be done, for example, by feeding chemical elements from a consumable wire into the weld pool during welding. The mixing of...doctoral thesis 2012
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Markesteijn, A.P. (author)One of the most important developments in the last centuries is the process of miniaturisation and understanding everything that it entails. For the physical sciences this meant the continuing discovery what matter is and how it behaves, while from a practical point of view it meant that more advanced medical, scientific, and consumer...doctoral thesis 2011
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Kritzinger, H.P. (author)The Monolithic Stirrer Reactor (MSR) is a novel concept for heterogeneously catalyzed reactors and is presented as an alternative device to slurry reactors. It uses a modified stirrer on which structured catalyst supports (monoliths) are fixed to form permeable blades. The monoliths consist of small square parallel channels on which a layer of...doctoral thesis 2011
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Loeven, G.J.A. (author)When modeling physical systems, several sources of uncertainty are present. For example, variability in boundary conditions like free stream velocity or ambient pressure are always present. Furthermore, uncertainties in geometry arise from production tolerances, wear or unknown deformations under loading. Uncertainties in computational fluid...doctoral thesis 2010
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Bos, F.M. (author)Both biological and engineering scientist have always been intrigued by the flight of insects and birds. For a long time, the aerodynamic mechanism behind flapping insect flight was a complete mystery. Recently, several experimental and numerical flow visualisations were performed to investigate the aerodynamics around flapping wings. Flapping...doctoral thesis 2010
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Carpentieri, G. (author)This thesis presents a shape optimization framework for problems that are encountered routinely in Aerodynamic Design. The nature of the framework is numerical. Its focus is wide as different aspects of the shape optimization practice are treated, e.g., the solution of the flow equations, the sensitivity analysis and the parameterization of the...doctoral thesis 2009
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Verstraete, T. (author), Alsalihi, Z. (author), Van den Braembussche, R.A. (author)A Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT) analysis allows the calculation of the heat transfer and temperature of a body placed in a fluid. The CHT analysis takes into account both the conduction in the solid and the convection in the fluid. Present paper describes a CHT method that uses two separate solvers: one CFD solver dedicated to the flow...conference paper 2006
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Aglave, R.H. (author), Warnatz, J. (author)Detailed mechanisms describing ignition, flame propagation and pollutant formation typically involve several hundred species and elementary reactions, prohibiting their use in practical three-dimensional engine simulations. Conventionally reduced mechanisms often fail to predict minor radicals and pollutant precursors. The ILDM-method is an...conference paper 2006
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Yao, J. (author), Patel, M.K. (author), Yao, Y. (author), Mason, P.J. (author)Numerical simulation has been conducted for the investigation of heat transfer in a rectangular, highaspect ratio microchannel with heat sinks, similar to an experimental study. Water at ambient temperature is used as working fluid and the heating power of 180 W is introduced via electronic cartridges in the solids. Three channel heights of 0.3...conference paper 2006
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Alauzet, F. (author)This paper presents an accurate approach to simulate the sonic boom of a supersonic aircraft. The near field flow is modeled by the conservative Euler equations and is solved using a finite volume approach on adapted unstructured tetrahedral meshes. Then, from the CFD solution, the pressure distribution under the aircraft is extracted and used...conference paper 2006
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Christakis, N. (author), Chapelle, P. (author), Patel, M.K. (author), Cross, M. (author)Many industrial processes involve particulates with materials ranging from pharmaceuticals, ceramics, cosmetics and foods. Common to all these particulate processes is the discharge of granular material from bins/hoppers in either mass flow mode (i.e. all material regions in the domain are in motion) or core flow mode (i.e. there is a flowing...conference paper 2006
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Frolov, S.M. (author), Basevich, V.Y. (author), Smetanyuk, V.A. (author), Belyaev, A.A. (author), Pasman, H.J. (author)Experiments on forced ignition of extremely fuel-rich n-butane-oxygen mixture with the equivalence ratio of 23 in the standard 20-liter spherical vessel at elevated initial pressure (4.1 bar) and temperature (500 K) reveal the nonmonotonic influence of the forced ignition delay time on the maximum explosion pressure and the maximum rate of...conference paper 2006
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Vos, W. (author), De Backer, J. (author), Devolder, A. (author), Partoens, B. (author), Parizel, P. (author), De Backer, W. (author)Functional imaging of the respiratory system is a new domain where the respiratory dynamics (such as airflow in the lungs and particle deposition) are studied by means of modern engineering techniques. A three dimensional model of a patient specific bronchial tree is constructed from a computed tomography scan. By segmenting the desired region...conference paper 2006
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De Backer, J. (author), Vos, W. (author), Vanderveken, O. (author), Devolder, A. (author), Braem, M. (author), Van Dyck, D. (author), De Backer, W. (author)Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a condition in which the patient repeatedly stops breathing during sleep due to the collapse of the upper airway. The upper airway collapse is caused by a relaxation of the upper airway muscles, combined with a decrease in intraluminal pressure and hence an increase in external pressure from the surrounding...conference paper 2006
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Loeven, A. (author), Witteveen, J.A.S. (author), Bijl, H. (author)In this paper a Two Step approach with Chaos Collocation for efficient uncertainty quantification in computational fluid-structure interactions is followed. In Step I, a Sensitivity Analysis is used to efficiently narrow the problem down from multiple uncertain parameters to one parameter which has the largest influence on the solution. In Step...conference paper 2006
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Frolov, S.M. (author), Basevich, V.Y. (author), Smetanyuk, V.A. (author), Belyaev, A.A. (author), Pasman, H.J. (author)Experiments on forced ignition of extremely fuel-rich n-butane-oxygen mixture with the equivalence ratio of 23 in the standard 20-liter spherical vessel at elevated initial pressure (4.1 bar) and temperature (500 K) reveal the nonmonotonic influence of the forced ignition delay time on the maximum explosion pressure and the maximum rate of...conference paper 2006
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Araslanov, S.F. (author)With the use of the Newton method, a new numerical method previously published [1] for solving the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations, is theoretically proved for the most simple case of one-dimensional acoustic equations. The convergence of iteration scheme is proved. In this paper, we also recall some theoretical and numerical results...conference paper 2006
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Loeven, A. (author), Witteveen, J.A.S. (author), Bijl, H. (author)In this paper a Two Step approach with Chaos Collocation for efficient uncertainty quantification in computational fluid-structure interactions is followed. In Step I, a Sensitivity Analysis is used to efficiently narrow the problem down from multiple uncertain parameters to one parameter which has the largest influence on the solution. In Step...conference paper 2006