Experimental and Computational Fluid Mechanics

✍ Scribed by J. C. Cajas, L. Martínez-Suástegui, C. Treviño (auth.), Jaime Klapp, Abraham Medina (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 471
• Series: Environmental Science and Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book collects invited lectures and selected contributions presented at the Enzo Levi and XVIII Annual Meeting of the Fluid Dynamic Division of the Mexican Physical Society in 2012. It is intended for fourth-year undergraduate and graduate students, and for scientists in the fields of physics, engineering and chemistry with an interest in Fluid Dynamics from experimental, theoretical and computational points of view. The invited lectures are introductory in nature and avoid the use of complicated mathematics. The other selected contributions are also suitable for fourth-year undergraduate and graduate students. The Fluid Dynamics applications include oceanography, multiphase flows, convection, diffusion, heat transfer, rheology, granular materials, viscous flows, porous media flows and astrophysics. The material presented in the book includes recent advances in experimental and computational fluid dynamics and is well-suited to both teaching and research.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Symmetry Breaking Instability in a Mixed Convection Problem....Pages 3-15
The Boundary Element Method in Fluid Mechanics: Application to Bubble Growth....Pages 17-48
Effect of Surface Contamination on the Drag of a Bubble Rising in a Line....Pages 49-61
Hydrodynamic Interactions in Charged Vesicles Suspensions....Pages 63-70
Laminar-Turbulent Transition in Stratified Wakes....Pages 71-82
Flows Driven by Harmonic Forcing in Planetary Atmospheres and Cores....Pages 83-91
Numerical Simulation of Ocean Response by Offshore Wind Stress Events....Pages 93-110
Quasi-Steady Endless Vortices with Chaotic Streamlines....Pages 111-128
Minimum Resistance in a Rare Medium....Pages 129-145
Competitive Adsorption of Surfactants and Polymers on Colloids by Means of Mesoscopic Simulations....Pages 147-155
Annular Two-Phase Flow Regimen in Direct Steam Generation for a Low-Power Solar System....Pages 157-174
Random Forces on Obstacles in Channels with Grains: A Mechanical Analogy of Crowd Disasters....Pages 175-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Experimental Study of the Growth of Bubbles in Corrugated Tubes....Pages 187-195
The Cooling of a Granular Material in a Rotating Horizontal Cylinder....Pages 197-205
Experimental Study of Mass Flow Rate in a Silo Under the Wall Width Influence....Pages 207-217
Surface Tension and Interfacial Tension Measurements in Water-Surfactant-Oil Systems Using Pendant Drop Technique....Pages 219-226
Experimental Measurement Process of a Volume Displacement of Oil Caught in a Fractured Rock by Gravity and Using Surfactant Foam....Pages 227-233
Modeling, Simulation and Scale-up of a Batch Reactor....Pages 235-241
Fluid Flow Modelling Through Fractured Soils....Pages 243-252
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Numerical Analysis of the Conjugate Convection in an Open Cavity with and Without an Obstruction Inside....Pages 255-262
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Experimental Studies of a Steam Front in a Radial Porous Cell....Pages 263-270
Transport of Particles in a Periodically Forced Flow....Pages 271-278
Experimental Study of Heat and Mass Transfer During Steam Injection in Homogeneous Porous Media....Pages 279-290
Numerical Simulations of the Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability with the Gadget-2 SPH Code....Pages 291-298
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
Effect of the Inlet Flow Angle on the Vortex Induced Vibration of a Collinear Array of Flexible Cylinders....Pages 301-306
Forced Dynamics by Wind Normal to the Boundary....Pages 307-313
Focusing of Surface Waves....Pages 315-325
Numerical Experiments of Wind Circulation off Baja California Coast....Pages 327-339
Wake Patterns Behind a Flapping Foil....Pages 341-347
Environmental Fluid Dynamics....Pages 349-358
Front Matter....Pages 359-359
Inductionless Magnetohydrodynamic Laminar Flow in a Narrow-Gap Annular Duct....Pages 361-368
Surface Waves Generated on Electrolytes by a Traveling Electromagnetic Force....Pages 369-378
Study of a Surface of a Liquid Layer in Evaporation....Pages 379-387
Analysis of the Performance of a Seven-Stage Axial Compressor Carried Out with a Numerical Simulation....Pages 389-397
The Drag Coefficient and the Navier-Stokes Fractional Equation....Pages 399-407
Numerical Solution of the Swift–Hohenberg Equation....Pages 409-416
Experiments of Mercury Jets Impinging on Water....Pages 417-424
Velocity Estimation of a Vertically Falling Soap Film....Pages 425-432
Designing Biodegradable Surfactants and Effective Biomolecules with Dissipative Particle Dynamics....Pages 433-447
Uranyl Transport in the Unsaturated Zone of the Toluca Valley, State of Mexico....Pages 449-460
Front Matter....Pages 359-359
Aromatics Extraction in Hydrocarbon Mixtures....Pages 461-473

✦ Subjects

Environmental Science and Engineering; Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics