R. Selvam^1,*, L. Ganesh Babu², Joji Thomas³, R. Prakash¹, T. Karthikeyan¹, T. Maridurai⁴

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.19, No.3, pp. 569-577, 2023, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2022.022187 - 29 September 2022

Abstract Hybrid materials collected from organic and inorganic sources, which are traditionally used as brake lining materials, generally include fly ash, cashew shell powder, phenolic resins, aluminium wool, barites, lime powder, carbon powder and copper powder. The present research focuses on the specific effects produced by fly ash and aims to provide useful indications for the replacement of asbestos due to the health hazards caused by the related fibers. Furthermore, the financial implications related to the use of large-volume use of fly ash, lime stone and cashew shell powder, readily available in most countries in the More > Graphic Abstract

Shrikant Arunrao Thote^*, Netra Pal Singh

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.19, No.2, pp. 501-511, 2023, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2022.021502 - 29 August 2022

Abstract The thermal behavior of pipes with a twisted tape inside (used to enhance heat transfer through the tube wall) is studied in the laminar flow regime. Oil is used as the work fluid with the corresponding Reynolds Number spanning the interval 200–2000. It is found that in such conditions the ‘Nusselt Number’ (Nu) gradually increases with reducing the tape twist ratio, whereas the friction factor is detrimentally affected by the presence of the tape (as witnessed by the comparison with the companion case where a plain tube is considered). In particular, it is shown that More >

Shuai Wang, Zhihong Yu^*, Wenjie Zhang, Dongxu Zhao, Aorigele

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.91, No.11, pp. 2559-2582, 2022, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2022.021354 - 12 July 2022

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Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is one of the four major oil crops in the world and has high economic value. However, the lack of discrete element method (DEM) models and parameters for sunflower seeds hinders the application of DEM for computer simulation in the key working processes of sunflower seed sowing and harvesting. The present study was conducted on two varieties of sunflower, and the DEM model of sunflower seeds was established by using 3D scanning technology based on the distribution of triaxial dimensions and volumes of the geometric model of sunflower seeds. Similarly, the physical

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P. R. Sharma^a , Sushila Choudhary^a,* , O. D. Makinde^b

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.9, pp. 1-7, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.9.18

Abstract Steady two dimensional laminar magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) slip flow and heat transfer of a viscous incompressible and electrically conducting fluid past over a flat exponentially non-conducting stretching porous sheet embedded in a porous medium with non uniform permeability in the presence of non uniform heat source is investigated. The governing equations of velocity and temperature distributions are solved numerically and the effects of different physical parameters are shown through graphs. The rate of shear stress and the rate of heat transfer at the sheet are derived, discussed numerically and their numerical values for various values of More >

Emil Budescu¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.11, No.1, pp. 17-18, 2009, DOI:10.3970/icces.2009.011.017

Abstract For the visco-plastic materials of type Bingham fluid, like granular materials, the process of flow begins when the force F^ˉ, which variation is presented in figure 1, reaches the minimum value of shearing limit. More >

En-Cheng Liu¹, Syh-Tsang Jenq^1,2, Shih-Wei Kung³, Chie Gau¹, Hsin-Luen Tsai⁴, Cheng-Ching Lee⁵, Yu-Der Chen⁵

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.9, No.4, pp. 245-246, 2009, DOI:10.3970/icces.2009.009.245

Abstract The purpose of the present work is to study the disc brake squeal problem for passenger cars in order to reduce the instable high frequency squeal modes. The ABAQUS/Standard implicit method was used to perform dynamic contact vibration analysis of the current disc brake finite element model. The disc brake system studied here contains the caliper, bracket, brake disc, and brake pad. Notice that brake pad in general contains both brake lining and brake shoe. The brake pad with a specific chamfer pattern and the brake disc with a series of cooling ribs for ventilation… More >