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    Numerical simulation of the effect of visitor's movement on bacteria-carrying particles distribution in hospital isolation room

    , Article Scientia Iranica ; Volume 24, Issue 3 , 2017 , Pages 1160-1170 ; 10263098 (ISSN) Eslami, J ; Abbassi, A ; Saidi, M. H ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    The aim of this paper is to simulate numerically the airflow induced by a walking visitor and its effects on the contaminant transport and ventilation system effectiveness. To this end, the following models will be used in this study: the Lagrangian Discrete Random Walk (DRW) model to trace the motion of BCPs, the dynamic mesh method to simulate the visitor movement, and the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) model to solve the airflow. The validation results of the numerical method are in full agreement with the available experimental data in the literature. The findings of the present study indicate that the visitor's movement has remarkable effect on the basic airflow, and the... 

    Stability analysis of whirling composite shells partially filled with two liquid phases

    , Article Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology ; Volume 31, Issue 5 , 2017 , Pages 2117-2127 ; 1738494X (ISSN) Sahebnasagh, M ; Nikkhah Bahrami, M ; Firouz Abadi, R ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    In this paper, the stability of whirling composite cylindrical shells partially filled with two liquid phases is studied. Using the first-order shear shell theory, the structural dynamics of the shell is modeled and based on the Navier-Stokes equations for ideal liquid, a 2D model is developed for liquid motion at each section of the cylinder. In steady state condition, liquids are supposed to locate according to mass density. In this study, the thick shells are investigated. Using boundary conditions between liquids, the model of coupled fluid-structure system is obtained. This coupled fluid-structure model is employed to determine the critical speed of the system. The effects of the main... 

    Reynolds-averaged navier-stokes simulation of hydrofoil effects on hydrodynamic coefficients of a catamaran in forced oscillation

    , Article Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M: Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment ; Volume 231, Issue 2 , 2017 , Pages 364-383 ; 14750902 (ISSN) Najafi, A ; Seif, M. S ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    Determination of high-speed crafts' hydrodynamic coefficients will help to analyze the dynamics of these kinds of vessels and the factors affecting their dynamic stabilities. Also, it can be useful and effective in controlling the vessel instabilities. The main purpose of this study is to determine the coefficients of longitudinal motions of a planing catamaran with and without a hydrofoil using Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes method to evaluate the foil effects on them. Determination of hydrodynamic coefficients by experimental approach is costly and requires meticulous laboratory equipment; therefore, utilizing the numerical methods and developing a virtual laboratory seem highly... 

    Adjoint-based design optimization of s-shaped intake geometry

    , Article ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE), 3 November 2017 through 9 November 2017 ; Volume 1 , 2017 ; 9780791858349 (ISBN) Askari, R ; Shoureshi, P ; Soltani, M. R ; Khajeh Fard, A ; ASME ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    The S-shaped air intakes are very common shapes due to their ease in the engine-body integration or Radar Cross Section, RCS, specifications especially for fighter aircrafts. The numerical shape optimization of an S-shaped air intake using adjoint method is conducted. The flow of a specified air intake that uses S-duct M2129 is simulated using three dimensional (3D) numerical solution of Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equation along with k-ω SST turbulence model. The main purpose of this optimization scheme is to maximize the total pressure recovery (TPR). Further, the scheme is developed in such a way that would be applicable in industry thru satisfying specified constraint requirements.... 

    A truly incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics based on artificial compressibility method

    , Article Computer Physics Communications ; Volume 210s , 2017 , Pages 10-28 ; 00104655 (ISSN) Rouzbahani, F ; Hejranfar, K ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    In the present study, a truly incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics based on the artificial compressibility method for simulating steady and unsteady incompressible flows is proposed and assessed. The incompressible Navier–Stokes equations in the primitive variables formulation using the artificial compressibility method proposed by Chorin in the Eulerian reference frame are written in a Lagrangian reference frame to provide an appropriate incompressible SPH algorithm. The proposed SPH formulation implemented here is based on an implicit dual-time stepping scheme to be capable of time-accurate analysis of unsteady flows. The advantage of the Artificial Compressibility-based... 

    Parallelized numerical modeling of the interaction of a solid object with immiscible incompressible two-phase fluid flow

    , Article Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales) ; Volume 34, Issue 3 , 2017 , Pages 709-724 ; 02644401 (ISSN) Ghasemi, A ; Nikbakhti, R ; Ghasemi, A ; Hedayati, F ; Malvandi, A ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    Purpose - A numerical method is developed to capture the interaction of solid object with two-phase flow with high density ratios. The current computational tool would be the first step of accurate modeling of wave energy converters in which the immense energy of the ocean can be extracted at low cost. Design/methodology/approach - The full two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations are discretized on a regular structured grid, and the two-step projection method along with multi-processing (OpenMP) is used to efficiently solve the flow equations. The level set and the immersed boundary methods are used to capture the free surface of a fluid and a solid object, respectively. The full... 

    Numerical Solution of Hypersonic Axisymmetric Flows Including Real Gas Effects Using Compact Finite-Difference Scheme

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Khodadadi, Polin (Author) ; Hejranfar, Kazem (Supervisor)
    Abstract

    The numerical solution of the parabolized Navier-Stokes (PNS) equations for accurate computation of hypersonic axisymmetric flowfield with real gas effects is obtained by using the fourth-order compact finite-difference method. The PNS equations in the general curvilinear coordinates are solved by using the implicit finite-difference algorithm of Beam and Warming type with a high-order compact accuracy. A shock fitting procedure is utilized in the compact PNS scheme to obtain accurate solutions in the vicinity of the shock. To stabilize the numerical solution, numerical dissipation term and filters are used. The main advantage of the present formulation is that the basic flow variables... 

    Solving Preconditioned Euler/Navier-Stokes Equations for Numerical Simulation of Cavitating Flows Using a Barotropic Model

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Ezzatneshan, Eslam (Author) ; Hejranfar, Kazem (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Cavitation can occur in many fluid systems such as pumps, nozzles, hydrofoils and submarine vehicles and therefore, numerical modeling of this phenomenon has a significant importance. In this study, the numerical simulation of the cavitating flows through the Euler/Navier-Stokes equations employing the interface capturing method associated with a barotropic state law is performed. The system of governing equations is discretized using a cell-centered finite-volume algorithm and the fluxes are evaluated using a central-difference scheme. To account for density jumps across the cavity interface, the numerical dissipation terms with suitable density and pressure sensors are used. Since... 

    Developing a Hybrid Molecular-Continuum Algorithm to Simulate Gas Flow in Micro-Nano Propulsion Systems

    , Ph.D. Dissertation Sharif University of Technology Roohi Golkhatmi, Ehsan (Author) ; Darbandi, Masoud (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    With the rapid development in the application of nano-micro systems in space propulsion systems, it is necessary to obtain accurate analysis of flow field in these devices. New generation of space missions are usually performed by using a network of small-scale satellites. The mission control of such small-scale satellites requires specialized propulsion systems than produce small propulsive forces of about 1 micro-Newton. The main purpose of the current PhD thesis is analysing the flow field in different nano/micro propulsion systems by using a hybrid Navier-Stokes (NS)-direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. Nano/micro propulsion systems experience different rarefaction regimes from... 

    Analysis of Industrial Ventilation System in a Welding Shop Considering Health & Hygiene

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Behkam, Reza (Author) ; Kazem Zadeh Hannani, Siamak (Supervisor) ; Farhanieh, Bijan (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Based on progress madein industry, considering the essence of human resource health is an inevitable subject. Ventilation is an important matter which affects the quality and efficiency of production due to its coherence with providing a healthy and suitable workplace. In this regard, there are some settings for industrial ventilation systems which are designed to satisfy related health and hygiene standards.Simulation of ventilation systems based on CFD methods is a great contribution to choose anappropriate ventilation system type. In this study, by modeling the proposed ventilation setting in a 3D environment, we are assured that the system is capable of industrial ventilation in welding... 

    Effect of Amplitude of Electric Field on the Rotation of Liquid Film

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Mashhadi, Meysam (Author) ; Amjadi, Ahmad (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    By direct and alternating electric field applied to thin film of liquid suspended in the air we can spin out and control it. Rotation pattern depends on the geometry of the electrodes and the applied magnetic field. This is called a rotating liquid film (Liquid Film Motor). To determine the cause of rotation, different models have been proposed. In this project we have tried to check the accuracy of any of the models. Using particle velocimetry using the photo, we calculate the velocity pattern. Then, using the Navier-Stokes equation calculate the acceleration and viscosity from the velocity. Then, for a special arrangement using a finite diffrent method, electric potential and the electric... 

    Interface Feedback Control Stabilization of a Nonlinear Fluid–Structure Interaction

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Hassanzadeh Kelishomi, Mojtaba (Author) ; Hesaraki, Mahmud (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    In this thesis, We consider a model of a fluid–structure interaction defined on a bounded domain Ω ⊆ R2, that describes a body of elasticity interacting with a fluid. Ω is a bounded simply connected domain, consisting of two open sub-domains Ωs and Ωf .Ωf is the exterior domain with non-overlapping boundaries Γf and Γs, so that ∂Ωs = Γs. Ωs is an interior domain with boundary Γs.Ωs is occupied by an elastic body while Ωf is filled with a fluid.The interaction between the elastic body and the fluid takes place at the interface Γs.The dynamics of the fluid is described by the Navier–Stokes equation and the dynamics of the elastic body is described by an elasto-dynamic system of wave equations.... 

    Numerical Study of Oxygen Enrichment on NO Pollution Spread in an Ignition Chamber

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Orshesh, Zohreh (Author) ; Kazemzadeh Hannani, Siamak (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    In the present study, a 3D combustion chamber was simulated using FLUENT6.32. The objectives were to obtain detailed information on the combustion characteristics and NO formation in the furnace, and also to examine the effect of Oxygen enrichment on the combustion process. The combustion chamber has internal dimensions of 60 cm wide, 90 cm high and 190 cm long. The fuel pipe diameter is 1.25 cm and the air pipe diameter is 3.5 cm. The 3-D Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) equations together with standard k-ε turbulence model are solved by Fluent 6.3. Air/fuel flow rate ratio is varied as 1.3, 3.2 and 5.1 and the oxygen enriched flow rates are 28, 54, 68 lit/min. NO emission was... 

    Shape Optimization in Pipe

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Ghalavandi, Ebrahim (Author) ; Fotouhi Firouzabad, Morteza (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Shape optimization can be viewed as a part of the important branch of computational mechanics called structural optimization. In structural optimization problems one tries to set up some data of the mathematical model that describe the behavior of a structure in order to find a situation in which the structure exhibits a priori given properties. Nowadays shape optimization represents a vast scientific discipline involving all problems in which the geometry (in a broad sense) is subject to optimization. The problem has to be well posed from the mechanical point of view, requiring a good understanding of the physical background. Then one has to find an appropriate mathematical model that can... 

    Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions to a Fluidstructure Model Coupling the Navier-Stokes Equations and the Lame System

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Golmirzaee, Narges (Author) ; Hesaraki, Mahmoud (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    In this thesis, we consider a system containing fluid equations, structure equations, and equations of these two materials’ common interface in three dimensions and on the regular domains. We suppose that the solid which is described by the Lamé system of linear elasticity, moves inside an incompressible viscous fluid in three dimensions, and the fluid obeys the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a time-dependent domain. At the fluid–solid interface, natural conditions are imposed, continuity of the velocities and of the Cauchy stress forces. The fluid and the solid are coupled through these conditions. By this interaction, the fluid deforms the boundary of the solid which in turn... 

    Null Controllability and Stabilizability of Compressible Navier-stokes System in One Dimension

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Hosseini Khajouei, Narges Sadat (Author) ; Hesaraki, Mahmoud (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    In this thesis we study the exponential stabilization of the one dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes system, in a bounded interval locally around a constant steady state by a localized distributed control acting only in the velocity equation. In fact this is an analysis of a paper that published by Shirshendu Chowdhury, Debayan Maity, Mithily Ramaswamy and Jean-Pierre Raymond in Journal of Differential Equations. We determine a linear feedback law able to stabilize a nonlinear transformed system. Coming back to the original nonlinear system, we obtain a nonlinear feedback law able to stabilize locally this nonlinear system. The result is providing feedback control laws stabilizing... 

    Modeling the Forces Acting on NASA's Probe B Satellite, Using Space-Time Fluid Analogy

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Ataei, Behzad (Author) ; Taeibi Rahni, Mohamad (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    The purpose of this thesis is to study the analogy of space-time fluid flow around Earth and to investigate the hydrodynamic forces caused by this fluid on NASA's Probe B satellite. According to recent research, Einstein's and Navier-Stokes equations are the same. The properties of space-time fluid, including equation of state, compressibility, viscosity, flow field around Earth, and the hydrodynamic forces entering Probe B satellite, are unknown. There are two views about the viscosity of space-time fluid. Spherical mass of the three-dimensional spherical sink and the nature of the sphere located in the probe satellite without a spherical solid particle It are considered within this flow.... 

    Weak Solutions of the Euler Equations and Onsager’s Conjecture

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Haghshenas, Mahdi (Author) ; Safdari, Mohammad (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    The Onsager's conjecture is concerned with the dichotomy between rigidity and flexibility of weak solutions of incompressible Euler equations. Lars Onsager conjectured that weak solutions of Euler equations that are not smooth enough could be dissipative, even without the help of viscosity. On the other hand, it is well known that $C^1$ solutions conserve energy. Onsager conjectured that C^(1/3) regularity marks the threshold for this dichotomy. In other words, Hölder continuous solutions with Hölder exponent greater than 1/3 conserve the energy, while for every Hölder exponent less than 1/3, there are dissipative Hölder continuous solutions. The threshold 1/3 is intimately tied with... 

    Navier-Stokes Equations in the Whole Space with an Eddy Viscosity

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Mohammadi, Mehrad (Author) ; Hesaraki, Mahmoud (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    We study the Navier-Stokes equations with an extra Eddy viscosity term in the whole space . We introduce a suitable regularized system for which we prove the existence of a regular solution defined for all time. We prove that when the regularizing parameter goes to zero, the solution of the regularized system converges to a turbulent solution of the initial system. In the first chapter, we have dedicated the necessary preliminaries and then in the second chapter, we have introduced the types of solutions. The third chapter introduces the necessary tools and their properties, with the help of which in the next chapter we have been able to make estimates and obtain their extensions to prove... 

    Solidification Simulation During Direct Metal Deposition of Functionally Graded Material

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Rahmanizadeh, Shayan (Author) ; Akbari, Javad (Supervisor) ; Tavakoli, Roholla (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Additive manufacturing can be considered as a revolution in the manufacturing industry. The unique capabilities of this technology have led to the removal of many obstacles to the construction of complex and special parts. In this study, with the aim of further understanding how the gradient region is formed, the possibility of detecting the microstructure and finally the properties of the gradient piece made, a solidification process has been simulated in direct metal deposition. The results of this study include calculating the heat distribution during the process and obtaining a thermal history of the fabricated part, calculating the dimensions of the molten pool and the heat affected...