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- 1Bhattacharya, Sanjay
- 1Kaminski, Alexis K.
- 1Kattemalalawadi, Bharath S. P.
- 1Khan, Md Imran
- 1Kumar, Vivek
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Fall 2020
Visible plumes discharged by cooling towers have gained much attention due to their negative aesthetic and environmental impact. To achieve plume abatement, many previous designs mix warm, dry air with the hot, humid air rising from the cooling tower fill in the plenum chamber and thereby...
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Spring 2013
An experimental study of the shear-induced buckling of a thin, viscous film in an axisymmetric geometry is presented. Rotating the inner boundary relative to a stationary outer one, generates large in-plane shear forces in the laterally constrained millimetric film, which leads to buckling of the...
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Spring 2022
Kattemalalawadi, Bharath S. P.
To improve the confidence of subsurface storage of fluids such as carbon-dioxide, acid-gas and hydrogen at various geological sites, a proper fluid dynamic understanding of flow phenomena occurring because of injecting these source fluids into a porous medium is necessary. While many advancements...
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Spring 2014
Consider an open control volume consisting of a porous medium submerged in a surrounding ambient fluid of density ρa. The top and bottom of the control volume allow ambient fluid to enter the porous medium. Saline fluid of density ρs>ρa is supplied at a constant rate of Qo near the top of the...
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Enhancing Heat Pipe Efficacy: Thermosyphon Analysis, New Generation Refrigerant Transition, and Design Optimization
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The efficacy of heat pipes is often constrained by their ability to effectively return condensed liquid from the condenser to the evaporator section through capillary pumping. However, when the heat pipe wick is absent or flooded due to overfilling, capillary pumping becomes irrelevant, resulting...
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Spring 2011
An analytical and experimental study of boundary gravity currents propagating through a two-layer stratified ambient of finite vertical extent is presented. The theoretical discussion considers slumping, supercritical gravity currents, i.e. those that generate an interfacial disturbance whose...
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Fall 2015
A total of 95 full- and partial-depth lock release experiments were conducted to investigate the qualitative and quantitative properties of gravity current flow over sinusoidal topography in a two-layer ambient. Density differences between fluids are limited to a Boussinesq regime and are...
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Spring 2015
Bottom propagating gravity currents resulting from full- and partial-depth lock-release experiments are investigated as they propagate up a rising slope in uniform and two-layer stratified ambients. In the case of uniform ambients, the gravity current front decelerates in a nearly uniform...
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Fall 2012
An algorithm is presented that disentangles the temporal and spatial structure of polychromatic internal wave fields generated through tidal conversion without a-priori knowledge of the topographic details. This spatial structure is relevant in estimating the location of ocean mixing. Using the...
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Spring 2016
The time evolution of a two dimensional incompressible, density stratified, Boussinesq flow in a rectangular cavity is numerically simulated for a range of parameters. Boundary control is then implemented along the upper boundary by adjusting the fluid density. More specifically, the top boundary...