In this work, the influence of entropy generation analysis for an electrically conducting Casson fluid flow with convective boundary conditions has been numerically studied. The governing equations are analyzed numerically using weighted residual methods. Subsequently, the residuals were minimized using two different approaches of weighted residual...

By Obalalu Adebowale Martins, Kazeem Issa, Abdulrazaq Abdulraheem, Ajala Olusegun Adebayo, Adeosun Adeshina Taofeeq, Oluwaseyi Aliu, Adebayo Lawal Lanre, Wahaab Adisa Fatai

The hydrodynamic by MHD driving force and ionic transport characteristics of an electrolytic solution in a small-scale electrodialysis process are taken into account in this new approach. A three-Dimensional modeling and simulation of coupling Magnetohydrodynamic-Ionic transport are carried out. The numerical values and the effects of applied volta...

By Noureddine Bensedira, Mohammed-Salah Aggoune, Mabrouk Chabane, Said Drid

Cement is the weakest link in the composition of total hip prosthesis in terms of mechanical properties. The knowledge of the intensity and distribution of stresses on the cement attaching the implant to the bone is of great importance for understanding the condition of the prosthesis and its failure. In this study, the finite element method is use...

By Mohammed El Sallah Zagane, Ali Benouis, Abdelmadjid Moulgada, Nourredine Djebbar, Abderrahmane Sahli

This paper deals with jet engines compressor disks which have dovetail joints with blades. A compressor disk with reduced fatigue resistance was taken as an example. Two simplified conceptual solutions of the dovetail joint with blades were devised. Based on the low cycle fatigue theory, the crack initiation life of their critical parts with newly-...

By Strain Posavljak, Gordana Tosic, Katarina Maksimovic

In this study, a new numerical method based on the combination of High Exploration Particle Swarm Optimization (HEPSO) and Moving Least Squares (MLS) is introduced to solve nonlinear porous media equations. The MLS scheme is employed to describe an appropriate discretized function, and the penalty method is implemented to convert the constrained pr...

By Mohammad Javad Mahmoodabadi, Ali Reza Ghanizadeh

In this research, analysis of entropy generation for mixed convection fluid flow in a trapezoidal enclosure is numerically investigated. To achieve this goal, the influences of Grashof number, Reynolds number and inclination angle of enclosure side walls on the distributions of the velocity and temperature fields and the values of entropy generatio...

By Meysam Atashafrooz, Mohsen Shafie

The lungs are the pair of organs where very complex internal microstructure provides gas exchange as the vital process of living organisms. This exchange in humans occurs within only 300g of tissue but on the surface of millions of alveoli with the total surface area of around 130m2. The extremely complex microstructure consists of micron-size inte...

By Milos Kojic

Numerical investigation is undertaken to study the effects of thermo-diffusion and Hall current on unsteady magneto-hydrodynamic convective flow of a viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting, radiating and heat absorbing fluid past an exponentially accelerated infinite vertical porous plate with ramped temperature in the presence of chemica...

By Bijjula Prabhakar Reddy

In the present paper, M05-2X/6-311+G(d,p) level of theory was used to investigate antiradical activity of cyanidin towards highly damaging radical species (.OH, .OCH3, .OOH and .OOCH3). The applied method successfully reproduces the values of reaction enthalpies (ΔHBDE, ΔHIP, and ΔHPA). These parameters are important to determine ...

By Dejan Milenković, Jelena Đorović, Edina Avdović, Žiko Milanović, Marko Antonijević

This paper reviews the development of a new microvalve with a cone-shaped tube, inspired by venous valves in the human body. Our microvalves allow fluid flow in one direction while restricting the flow in the opposite direction. When a microvalve is used to control the amount of drug delivery, the efficiency between inlet and outlet flow rate is th...

By N. Labdelli, S. Soulimane