Advances in Fluid Mechanics

Contents Section 1: Fluid structure interaction Nonlinear diffraction of water waves: a classical perturbation method; Design and testing of wind deflectors for roof-mounted solar panels; PIV measurements of laminar flow around a hemisphere; Oil squeezing power losses in gears: a CFD analysis; Complete Francis turbine flow simulation at Derbendikan power station; The characteristics of open cavity flow with a length to depth ratio of 4 Section 2: Computational methods On gauge fields in fluid turbulence; Preconditioned HLLC scheme for incompressible viscous flow simulation; An immersed boundary method for simulating compressible viscous flow in complex geometries; Computational design of the flow properties of foams; Assessment of two pressure-velocity coupling strategies for local meshless numerical method; Numerical investigation of swirl flow inside a supersonic nozzle; Numerical study of battle damaged two-dimensional wings; Simulation of fluid-structure interaction for an elastic cylinder in an axial flow; Numerical simulation of vortex-induced vibration of a pivoted cylinder using the spectral element method; Droplet interaction and dynamic wettability of advanced materials used in aeronautics Section 3: Multiphase flow On radiation absorption effects and air humidity influence on evaporating water droplets and vapour condensation intensity; Emulsion compression and coalescence under enhanced gravity studied with in-situ microscopy; Steady state numerical model for critical two-phase flow in a nozzle; Experimental and numerical investigation of boiling flow in a vertical pipe with phase change using a multi-fluid modelling approach; Validation of the CFD model for prediction of flow behaviour in fluidized bed reactors; Study of a fluidized bed reactor for gasification of biomass; Liquid - gas interface under hydrostatic pressure; Multifield hybrid approach for bubble to slug flow transition modelling; Development of a computationally efficient bubble column simulation approach by way of statistical bubble micro-flow modelling; Computational and experimental analysis of the churning power losses in an industrial planetary speed reducer Section 4: Environmental fluid mechanics Water and contaminant flux estimation from multi-layer passive flux meter measurements; Meridional flow of grounded abyssal currents on a sloping bottom in spherical geometry; The Italian Data Buoy Network (RON) Section 5: Turbulent flow PIV measurements on the formation of the flow field and aerosol particle distribution in a turbulent square duct flow; Numerical simulation of coaxial turbulent jet with and without discrete particles; Three-dimensional mixture theory simulations of turbulent flow over dynamic rippled beds; Validation of a stochastic droplet breakup model applied to a liquid jet in turbulent crossflow Section 6: Bubble and drop dynamics Air - water: two phase flow behavior in a horizontal pipe using computational fluids dynamics (CFD); Isenthalpic oscillations with quadratic damping in saturated two-phase fluids; Study of the application of Acoustic Emission technology for on-line monitoring of bubble phenomena and flow patterns in two-phase gas-liquid flow; Acoustic frequency for bubble size correlation using acoustic emissions; A microfluidic study of oil-water separation kinetics Section 7: Heat and mass transfer The role of natural convection and density variations in the solidification process of water in an annular enclosure; Benard convection with rotation and a periodic temperature distribution; Research on the heat transfer law of gas-liquid two-phase flow in a deepwater wellbore; On the exact solution of incompressible viscous flows with variable viscosity; Hybrid synthetic jet actuator with a novel fluidic diode Section 8: Hydrodynamics Superquadratic fluidic restrictors and their applications; Numerical analysis of the circulation variability in the Zadar channel area (east Adriatic); Vortices in micro/nano channel flows; A turbulence closure based on the maximum entropy method Section 9: Applications in biology Use of heart blood flow analysis in clinical practice; Application of statistical methods in human airway flow analysis