M.El-Gammal¹, J.M.Floryan¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 17-26, 2006, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2006.002.017

Abstract Interface deformation and thermocapillary rupture in a cavity with free upper surface subject to concentrated heating from above is investigated. The dynamics of the process is modulated by placing different amounts of liquid in the cavity. The results determined for large Biot and zero Marangoni numbers show the existence of limit points beyond which steady, continuous interface cannot exist and processes leading to the interface rupture develop. Evolution of the limit point as a function of the mass of the liquid is investigated. The topology of the flow field is found to be qualitatively similar, regardless of whether the cavity… More >

Milica Radisic^1,2, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic³

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 1-16, 2006, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2006.002.001

Abstract To engineer cardiac tissue in vitro with properties approaching those of native tissue, it is necessary to reproduce many of the conditions found in vivo. In particular, cell density must be sufficiently high to enable contractility, which implies a three-dimensional culture with a sufficient oxygen and nutrient supply. In this review, hydrogels and scaffolds that support high cell densities are examined followed by a discussion on the utility of scaffold perfusion to satisfy high oxygen demand of cardiomyocytes and an overview of new bioreactors developed in our laboratory to accomplish this task more simply. More >

Md. Abdul Halim¹, Asghar Esmaeeli²

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.9, No.4, pp. 435-460, 2013, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2013.009.435

Abstract This study aims to gain a detailed understanding of the transient behavior of solitary liquid drops in electric fields at finite Reynolds number. A front tracking/finite difference method, in conjunction with Taylor-Melcher leaky dielectric model, is used to solve the governing electrohydrodynamic equations. The evolution of the flow field and drop deformation is studied for a few representative fluid systems, corresponding to the different regions of the deformation-circulation map. It is shown that for the range of the physical parameters used here, the deformationtime history is governed by one time scale while the fluid flow (characterized by kinetic energy) is… More >

J.R. Lin¹, P.J. Li², T.C. Hung³

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.9, No.4, pp. 419-434, 2013, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2013.009.419

Abstract On the basis of the Shliomis ferrofluid model (1972) together with the micro-continuum theory of Stokes (1966), the influences of non-Newtonian ferrofluids on the steady-state performance of long journal bearings have been investigated in the present paper. Analytical solutions for bearing performances are obtained from the non-Newtonian ferrofluid Reynolds-type equation. Comparing with the Newtonian non-ferrofluid case, the effects of non-Newtonian ferrofluids with applied magnetic fields provide an increase in the zero pressure-gradient angle and the load capacity, and a decrease in the friction parameter, especially for a larger non-Newtonian couple stress parameter and magnetic Langevin’s parameter. For the long journal… More >

Payam Sharifi¹, Asghar Esmaeeli²

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.9, No.4, pp. 389-418, 2013, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2013.009.389

Abstract This study aims to explore the effect of liquid film thickness on the electrohydrodynamic-driven instability of the interface separating two horizontal immiscible liquid layers. The fluids are confined between two electrodes and the light and less conducting liquid is overlaid on the heavy and more conducting one. Direct Numerical Simulations (DNSs) are performed using a front tracking/finite difference scheme in conjunction with Taylor-Melcher leaky dielectric model. For the range of physical parameters used here, it is shown that for a moderately thick lower liquid layer, the interface instability leads to formation of several liquid columns and as a result of… More >

Ahmed Mahmoudi^1,2, Imen Mejri¹, Mohamed Ammar Abbassi¹, Ahmed Omri¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.9, No.4, pp. 353-388, 2013, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2013.009.353

Abstract A double-population Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) is applied to solve the steady-state laminar natural convective heat-transfer problem in a triangular cavity filled with air (Pr = 0.71). Two different boundary conditions are implemented for the vertical and inclined boundaries: Case I) adiabatic vertical wall and inclined isothermal wall, Case II) isothermal vertical wall and adiabatic inclined wall. The bottom wall is assumed to be at a constant temperature (isothermal) for both cases. The buoyancy effect is modeled in the framework of the well-known Boussinesq approximation. The velocity and temperature fields are determined by a D2Q9 LBM and a D2Q4 LBM,… More >

M. Sekhon¹, N. Armour¹, S. Dost^1,2

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.9, No.4, pp. 331-351, 2013, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2013.009.331

Abstract Liquid Phase Diffusion (LPD) growth of Si_xGe_1-x single crystals has been numerically simulated under zero gravity. The objective was to examine growth rate and silicon concentration distribution in the LPD grown crystals under diffusion dominated mass transport prior to the planned LPD space experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). Since we are interested in predicting growth rate and crystal composition, the gravitational fluctuation of the ISS (g-jitter) was neglected and the gravity level was taken as zero for simplicity.
A fixed grid approach has been utilized for the simulation. An integrated top-level solver was developed in OpenFOAM to carry… More >

A. Filali¹, L. Khezzar^1,2

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.9, No.3, pp. 307-329, 2013, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2013.009.307

Abstract Numerical investigations of purely-elastic instabilities occurring in creeping flows are reported in planar cross-slot geometries with both sharp and round corners. The fluid is described by the upper-convected Maxwell model, and the governing equations are solved using the finite element technique based on a steady (non-iterative) direct solver implemented in the POLYFLOWcommercial software (version 14.0). Specifically, extensive simulations were carried out on different meshes, with and without the use of flow perturbations, for a wide range of rheological parameters. Such simulations show the onset of flow asymmetries above a critical Deborah number (De). The effect of rounding the corners is… More >

D. Srinivasacharya¹, G. Swamy Reddy¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.9, No.3, pp. 291-305, 2013, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2013.009.291

Abstract Free convection and related heat and mass transfer along a vertical plate embedded in a power-law fluid saturated Darcy porous medium with thermal and solutal stratification effects is studied. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into ordinary differential equations using similarity transformations and then solved numerically by means of a shooting method. The variations of non-dimensional velocity, temperature and concentration are presented graphically for various values of the power-law index, and of the thermal and solutal stratification parameters. In addition, the heat and mass transfer rates are tabulated for different values of the governing nondimensional numbers. More >

Lazhar Merouani¹, Belkacem Zeghmati², Azeddine Belhamri³

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.9, No.3, pp. 267-290, 2013, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2013.009.267

Abstract The present work is a numerical study of laminar film condensation from vapor-gas mixtures in an inclined channel with an insulated upper wall and an isothermal lower wall coated with a thin porous material. A two-dimensional model is developed using a set of complete boundary layer equations for the liquid film and the steam-air mixture while the Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer approach is used for the porous material. The governing equations are discretized with an implicit finite difference scheme. The resulting systems of algebraic equations are numerically solved using Gauss and Thomas algorithms. The numerical results enable to determine the velocity, temperature and… More >