Experimental and Computational Fluid Mechanics

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Symmetry Breaking Instability in a Mixed Convection Problem....Pages 3-15
The Boundary Element Method in Fluid Mechanics: Application to Bubble Growth....Pages 17-48
Effect of Surface Contamination on the Drag of a Bubble Rising in a Line....Pages 49-61
Hydrodynamic Interactions in Charged Vesicles Suspensions....Pages 63-70
Laminar-Turbulent Transition in Stratified Wakes....Pages 71-82
Flows Driven by Harmonic Forcing in Planetary Atmospheres and Cores....Pages 83-91
Numerical Simulation of Ocean Response by Offshore Wind Stress Events....Pages 93-110
Quasi-Steady Endless Vortices with Chaotic Streamlines....Pages 111-128
Minimum Resistance in a Rare Medium....Pages 129-145
Competitive Adsorption of Surfactants and Polymers on Colloids by Means of Mesoscopic Simulations....Pages 147-155
Annular Two-Phase Flow Regimen in Direct Steam Generation for a Low-Power Solar System....Pages 157-174
Random Forces on Obstacles in Channels with Grains: A Mechanical Analogy of Crowd Disasters....Pages 175-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Experimental Study of the Growth of Bubbles in Corrugated Tubes....Pages 187-195
The Cooling of a Granular Material in a Rotating Horizontal Cylinder....Pages 197-205
Experimental Study of Mass Flow Rate in a Silo Under the Wall Width Influence....Pages 207-217
Surface Tension and Interfacial Tension Measurements in Water-Surfactant-Oil Systems Using Pendant Drop Technique....Pages 219-226
Experimental Measurement Process of a Volume Displacement of Oil Caught in a Fractured Rock by Gravity and Using Surfactant Foam....Pages 227-233
Modeling, Simulation and Scale-up of a Batch Reactor....Pages 235-241
Fluid Flow Modelling Through Fractured Soils....Pages 243-252
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Numerical Analysis of the Conjugate Convection in an Open Cavity with and Without an Obstruction Inside....Pages 255-262
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Experimental Studies of a Steam Front in a Radial Porous Cell....Pages 263-270
Transport of Particles in a Periodically Forced Flow....Pages 271-278
Experimental Study of Heat and Mass Transfer During Steam Injection in Homogeneous Porous Media....Pages 279-290
Numerical Simulations of the Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability with the Gadget-2 SPH Code....Pages 291-298
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
Effect of the Inlet Flow Angle on the Vortex Induced Vibration of a Collinear Array of Flexible Cylinders....Pages 301-306
Forced Dynamics by Wind Normal to the Boundary....Pages 307-313
Focusing of Surface Waves....Pages 315-325
Numerical Experiments of Wind Circulation off Baja California Coast....Pages 327-339
Wake Patterns Behind a Flapping Foil....Pages 341-347
Environmental Fluid Dynamics....Pages 349-358
Front Matter....Pages 359-359
Inductionless Magnetohydrodynamic Laminar Flow in a Narrow-Gap Annular Duct....Pages 361-368
Surface Waves Generated on Electrolytes by a Traveling Electromagnetic Force....Pages 369-378
Study of a Surface of a Liquid Layer in Evaporation....Pages 379-387
Analysis of the Performance of a Seven-Stage Axial Compressor Carried Out with a Numerical Simulation....Pages 389-397
The Drag Coefficient and the Navier-Stokes Fractional Equation....Pages 399-407
Numerical Solution of the Swift–Hohenberg Equation....Pages 409-416
Experiments of Mercury Jets Impinging on Water....Pages 417-424
Velocity Estimation of a Vertically Falling Soap Film....Pages 425-432
Designing Biodegradable Surfactants and Effective Biomolecules with Dissipative Particle Dynamics....Pages 433-447
Uranyl Transport in the Unsaturated Zone of the Toluca Valley, State of Mexico....Pages 449-460
Front Matter....Pages 359-359
Aromatics Extraction in Hydrocarbon Mixtures....Pages 461-473