The effect of surface roughness on characteristics of magnetic fluid based squeeze film between porous circular plates is hypothetically analysed. The pressure distribution is obtained by solving concern Reynolds type equation with suitable boundary conditions and the result is utilized to obtain load carrying capacity. It is concluded that the loa...

By P. L. Thakkar, H. C. Patel

This paper reviews the development of a new microvalve with a cone-shaped tube, inspired by venous valves in the human body. Our microvalves allow fluid flow in one direction while restricting the flow in the opposite direction. When a microvalve is used to control the amount of drug delivery, the efficiency between inlet and outlet flow rate is th...

By N. Labdelli, S. Soulimane

Numerical investigation is undertaken to study the effects of thermo-diffusion and Hall current on unsteady magneto-hydrodynamic convective flow of a viscous, incompressible, electrically conducting, radiating and heat absorbing fluid past an exponentially accelerated infinite vertical porous plate with ramped temperature in the presence of chemica...

By Bijjula Prabhakar Reddy

The lungs are the pair of organs where very complex internal microstructure provides gas exchange as the vital process of living organisms. This exchange in humans occurs within only 300g of tissue but on the surface of millions of alveoli with the total surface area of around 130m2. The extremely complex microstructure consists of micron-size inte...

By Milos Kojic

The paper develops a method for approximation of the discontinuous functions of two variables by discontinuous interlination splines using arbitrary triangular elements. Experimental data are one-sided traces of a function given along a system of lines (such data are commonly used in remote methods, in particular in tomography). The paper also prop...

By V. Mezhuyev, O. M. Lytvyn, I. Pershyna, O. Nechuiviter

This paper presents a numerical investigation of mixed convection heat transfer around a pair of identical circular cylinders placed in side-by-side arrangement inside a square cavity of single inlet and outlet ports. The investigation provided the analysis of gradual effect of aiding thermal buoyancy on upward flow around cylinders and its effect ...

By H. Laidoudi

Predicting crack initiation life (CIL) of a mechanical component or a structure in service remains difficult since the crack formation process is of stochastic nature. To ensure a high level of safety and reliability, it is essential to have an appropriate probability distribution law of the CIL to ensure that cracks can be detected before reaching...

By R. Yahiaoui, R. Noureddine, B. Ait Saadi

The problem of bending of an infinite plate containing an array of trough closable cracks and narrow slits is considered in a two-dimensional statement. A crack is treated as a mathematical cut, the edges of which are able to contact along the line on the plate outside. A slit is referred to as a cut with contact stress-free surfaces and the negati...

By Taras M. Dalyak, Ivan P. Shatskyi

In this work, the influence of entropy generation analysis for an electrically conducting Casson fluid flow with convective boundary conditions has been numerically studied. The governing equations are analyzed numerically using weighted residual methods. Subsequently, the residuals were minimized using two different approaches of weighted residual...

By Obalalu Adebowale Martins, Kazeem Issa, Abdulrazaq Abdulraheem, Ajala Olusegun Adebayo, Adeosun Adeshina Taofeeq, Oluwaseyi Aliu, Adebayo Lawal Lanre, Wahaab Adisa Fatai

The ferrofluid flow model of the Shliomis and continuity equation for the film and porous interface with the theory of Darcy, the modified Reynolds equation for ferrofluid squeeze film between curved annular plates is discussed with the impact of the rotation of Ferro-particles and slip velocity at the boundary. Beavers and Joseph’s slip cond...

By Niru C. Patel, Jimit R. Patel