In a compound parabolic solar collector, a glass cover is normally used for decreasing the rate of heat loss from the absorber. In this paper, a solar collector with two glass covers and a concentration ratio of 1.6 is simulated and examined for the purpose of higher performance. The distance between covers is 45 mm and the cavity of solar collecto...

By Mohammad Omidpanah, Seyyed Abdolreza Gandjalikhan Nassab

The use of complex fluids is one of the modern techniques used in small devices in order to enhance their thermal performance. This paper is a numerical study of a complex fluid imprisoned in a chamber with two hot bodies exposed to a magnetic field of constant intensity. The upper and lower walls move horizontally at a constant velocity, while the...

By Abdeljalil Benmansour, Hacène Hamoudi

The mechanical response of blast-resistant vehicles, such as Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs), Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicles (MICVs), Armored Personal Vehicles (APVs), and Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected (MRAP) vehicles, is crucial for their effective design. When designing armored vehicles, it is important to achieve a balance between rigid...

By Miloš S. Pešić, Aleksandar S. Bodić, Živana M. Jovanović Pešić, Nikola B. Jović, Miroslav M. Živković

The determination of the total aerodynamic load which negatively influences the movement of artillery projectiles is inevitable and indispensable in order to be able to increase or control their ranges. The main part of this aerodynamic load that has the most influence on projectile movement is the drag force, which acts in the opposite direction t...

By Abdellah Ferfouri, Toufik Allouche, Damir D. Jerković, Nebojša Hristov, Milan Vučković, Abdeselem Benmeddah

This study presents a numerical and analytical prediction of delamination of a repaired joint due to a defect in the composite under tensile loading. The three-dimensional finite element method is used to predict the delamination of a repaired plate with the VCCT method. The effects of the position of the delamination, percentage of the delaminated...

By Sofiane Talbi, Mokadem Salem, Belaïd Mechab, Tewfik Ghomari, Ahmed Allem, Mohammed Khalil Salem, Belabbes Bachir Bouiadjra

This paper aims to predict the behavior of a complex fluid though a small-sized thermal exchanger. The fluid used is of shear-thickening type of power-law index (n = 1.4) and Prandtl number (Pr = 50). The Ostwald model was utilized to define the dynamic viscosity. The exchanger consists of three rectangular cross-section tubes placed inside a therm...

By Hacène Hamoudi, Mohamed Bouzit

The main contribution of this study is to present a modified V-corrugated grooved absorber plate in the construction of plane solar air heaters for higher performance. The combined effects of extended heat transfer area due to the V-shaped absorber, the suction process by the grooves that maintains the convective flow closed to the heated absorber ...

By Maryam Moein Addini, Seyyed Abdolreza Gandjalikhan Nassab

The unsteady investigation of ferrofluid flow forced convection over a downward step containing a rotating finned cylinder is conducted numerically. The dimensionless partial differential equations of conservation equations for mass, momentum and energy and the boundary conditions associated with them are solved by using the finite element method. ...

By Meriem Toumi, Mohamed Bouzit, Abderrahim Mokhefi, Djamila Derbal

Today, it takes ten to twelve years on average to complete a clinical trial before a new drug is approved and brought to marktet. Moreover, the evaluation of the efficacy and safety of drugs or devices has been performed in the linear and sequential manner with limited change over the past decade. The InSilc project is an EU funded project (www.ins...

By Milica Kaplarević, Marija Gačić, Georgia Karanasiou, Dimitris Fotiadis, Nenad Filipović

In this paper, a numerical investigation using the finite element method on the cooling capacity of an electronic heat sink has been presented. This heat sink is intended for cooling applications of micro-computer CPUs. It deals with a parallelepipedal block with rectangular fins, filled with a nanofluid and crossed by four cylindrical pipes in whi...

By Yamina Anouar, Abderrahim Mokhefi