A numerical study on the effect of geometrical parameters and loading profile on the expansion of stent

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 463-476
Author(s):  
Borhan Beigzadeh ◽  
Seyed Alireza Mirmohammadi ◽  
Majid Reza Ayatollahi
Fuel ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 45-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunfei Yan ◽  
Wenli Pan ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
Weimin Tang ◽  
Yanrong Chen ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (31) ◽  
pp. 1850344 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Eti ◽  
Z. Çetin ◽  
H. S. Sözüer

A detailed numerical study of low-loss silicon on insulator (SOI) waveguide bend is presented using the fully three-dimensional (3D) finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The geometrical parameters are optimized to minimize the bending loss over a range of frequencies. Transmission results for the conventional single bend and photonic crystal assisted SOI waveguide bend are compared. Calculations are performed for the transmission values of TE-like modes where the electric field is strongly transverse to the direction of propagation. The best obtained transmission is over 95% for TE-like modes.


Author(s):  
Shakhawat Hossain ◽  
Mubashshir Ahmad Ansari ◽  
Afzal Husain ◽  
Kwang-Yong Kim

In this study, a parametric investigation on mixing of two fluids in a modified Tesla microchannel, has been preformed. Modified Tesla micromixer applies both flow separation and vortices string principles to enhance the mixing. The fluid stream splits into two sub-streams and one of them mixes with the other again at the exit of the Tesla unit. Analyses of mixing and flow field have been carried out for a wide range of Reynolds number from 0.05 to 40. Mixing performance and pressure drop characteristics with two geometrical parameters, i.e, ratio of the diffuser gap to channel width (h/w) and ratio of the curved gap to the channel width (s/w), have been analyzed at six different Reynolds numbers. The vortical structure of the flow has been analyzed to explain mixing performance. The sensitivity analysis reveals that mixing is more sensitive s/w, than the h/w.


Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ammar Alsabery ◽  
Muneer Ismael ◽  
Ali Chamkha ◽  
Ishak Hashim

This numerical study considers the mixed convection and the inherent entropy generated in Al 2 O 3 –water nanofluid filling a cavity containing a rotating conductive cylinder. The vertical walls of the cavity are wavy and are cooled isothermally. The horizontal walls are thermally insulated, except for a heat source segment located at the bottom wall. The dimensionless governing equations subject to the selected boundary conditions are solved numerically using the Galerkin finite-element method. The study is accomplished by inspecting different ranges of the physical and geometrical parameters, namely, the Rayleigh number ( 10 3 ≤ R a ≤ 10 6 ), angular rotational velocity ( 0 ≤ Ω ≤ 750 ), number of undulations ( 0 ≤ N ≤ 4 ), volume fraction of Al 2 O 3 nanoparticles ( 0 ≤ ϕ ≤ 0.04 ), and the length of the heat source ( 0.2 ≤ H ≤ 0.8 ) . The results show that the rotation of the cylinder boosts the rate of heat exchange when the Rayleigh number is less than 5 × 10 5 . The number of undulations affects the average Nusselt number for a still cylinder. The rate of heat exchange increases with the volume fraction of the Al 2 O 3 nanoparticles and the length of the heater segment.


Author(s):  
Sanjay Sharma ◽  
Aniket Sharma ◽  
Gourav Jamwal ◽  
Rajeev Kumar Awasthi

The present comparative numerical study is between V-shape protruded, dimple textured, and untextured bearing. The performance parameters in terms of the load-carrying capacity and coefficient of friction are computed by solving governing Reynold’s equation of the lubricant fluid flow. The governing equation is solved by the finite element method by assuming that the fluid is Newtonian and isoviscous in nature. The effect of eccentricity ratios, texture distribution, texture heights, and texture depths are considered for the analysis in both textured bearings. From simulated results, the load-carrying capacity and coefficient of friction is found to be maximum for protruded textured bearing in full textured region and first half-textured region respectively as compared to untextured bearings. Finally, optimal operating and geometrical parameters of textured bearing is obtained by computing performance enhancement ratio, which is the ratio of the load-carrying capacity to the coefficient of friction. The maximum value of the performance enhancement ratio is found for protruded and dimple textured bearing in full texturing and second half-region corresponding to the eccentricity ratio of 0.8 and 0.6 respectively at texture height and depth of 0.4.


Author(s):  
Ruander Cardenas ◽  
Vinod Narayanan

A one-dimensional, steady state, semi-empirical model of an ammonia-water microscale bubble absorber is presented. The geometry consists of a microchannel through which a solution of ammonia-water flows. Ammonia vapor is injected through one of the walls of the channel. A counter flowing coolant solution removes the heat generated due to absorption from the opposite wall. The 1-D, steady state species and energy transport equations are solved to yield, along the length of the channel, concentration and temperature profiles of the solution stream and the temperature profile of the coolant fluid stream. Values for the overall heat transfer coefficient from experimental results are used in this model. A parametric study of fluid and geometrical parameters based on the model is presented. The varied fluidic parameters include the mass flow rates of the weak solution, coolant, and vapor, the inlet coolant temperature, and the weak solution concentration. Two variations of the vapor distribution that resulted from a geometrical variation of the porous plate are considered: (a) variation in length of the non-porous section, and (b) variation in the number of intermittent sections in which there was no injection of vapor. Trends of the parametric study were consistent with those of experiments. A salient result of the parametric study indicates that incomplete absorption occurs with an increase in weak solution flow rate due to the decrease in residence time within the microchannel for absorption. At a specific fixed flow condition, a single porous section followed by a non-porous section provides the optimal vapor distribution for absorption within the channel. The length of this non-porous section for optimal absorption within the channel is also determined using the model.


2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renshan Liu ◽  
Chao Zhang

A numerical study of NOx reduction for a Direct Injection (DI) Diesel engine with complex geometry, which includes intake/exhaust ports and moving valves, was carried out using the commercial computational fluid dynamics software KIVA-3v. The numerical simulations were conducted to investigate the effects of engine operating and geometrical parameters, including fuel injection timing, fuel injection duration, and piston bowl depth, on the NOx formation and the thermal efficiency of the DI Diesel engine. The tradeoff relationships between the reduction in NOx and the decrease in thermal efficiency were established.


Author(s):  
Sadek Horra ◽  
Zoubir Nemouchi ◽  
Lyes Khezzar

This work is a numerical study of a turbulent impinging jet issuing from a nozzle with chevrons. The Reynolds number based on the jet exit velocity and nozzle diameter is equal to 5000 corresponding to a low Mach number of 0.0057 at the nozzle exit. The main objectives of the investigation, inspired by the work of Violato et al. (Int. J. of Heat and Fluid Flow, 37, 2012), are to highlight, from a fundamental point of view, the effects of the nozzle shape and the nozzle-to-plate distance on the mean parameters characterizing the dynamics of the flow in question. The nozzle configurations considered are a circular nozzle without chevrons and nozzles provided with 4 and 6 chevrons. The nozzle-to-plate distance ranges from 2 to 6 nozzle diameters. All the other flow conditions and geometrical parameters used in the different cases treated are identical. Interesting features of the flow are revealed by the obtained results of averaged three-dimensional fields of velocity and turbulent kinetic energy, particularly close to the wall. An attempt is made to bring additional insight into the phenomena in the free jet, the impingement region and the wall jet when using 4, 6 and no chevrons, for different nozzle-to-plate distances.


Author(s):  
Luca D’Agostino ◽  
Luca Bertocchi ◽  
Luca Splendi ◽  
Antonio Strozzi ◽  
Patrizio Moruzzi

The simulation of vehicle crash impacts requires accurate and computationally expensive Finite Element analysis. An effective procedure consists in considering and establishing which improvement can be made on an equivalent sub-model of the full vehicle. In this way, all the analysis can be performed on smaller models, thus saving computational time. A full vehicle simulation is required only at the end of the design process to validate the results of the sub-model analysis. A software based on a genetic optimization algorithm has been developed in order to optimize the geometrical parameters of a variable-thickness crash absorber. A numerical study on the folding of thin-walled aluminum tubes with variable-thickness has been performed in order to achieve the maximum energy absorption-to-mass ratio. Moreover, the performance in terms of folding length and crush load peaks have been considered. Different optimization strategies have been implemented to find out which solution guarantees the achievement of the optimization target with the lowest computational cost. The results show how the approach proposed by the authors allows an efficient variable-thickness crash absorber to be obtained. In fact it performs better in term of crash behavior and energy dissipation-to-mass ratio, with respect to the original constant_thickness model.


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