Harumi Toriyama^*, Yutaka Asako

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.1, No.1, pp. 1-6, 2010, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v1.1.3005

Abstract Effects of a magnetic field on aeration through porous medium compost have been investigated numerically. Some composts yield heat over 60 degrees Celsius in fermentation process. That exothermic reaction produces a considerable amount of heat, which could be a potential heating source. Fermentation reaction requires aeration, sufficient supply of paramagnetic oxygen gas and exhaust of metabolized diamagnetic carbon dioxide gas. Continuous and forced air supply is more efficient rather than conventional manual turns or stirrings as aeration means. In magnetoaero-dynamics, the magnetizing force acting on a paramagnetic oxygen gas is applied for the enhancement of More >

Hui-Fen Guo^1,2, Bin-Gang Xu^1,3

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.61, No.3, pp. 201-222, 2010, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2010.061.201

Abstract A numerical method is developed for modeling the dynamics of a flexible fiber immersed in a compressible swirling flow. The modeling approach is based on combining an Eulerian finite volume formulation for the fluid flow and a Lagrangian small-deformation formulation for the dynamics of the fiber. The fiber is modeled as a chain of beads connected through mass-less rods. The bending and twisting deformation of the fiber are represented by the displacements of the successive beads. A computational strategy is proposed for the computation of the fluid parameters at the center of discrete fiber sections. More >