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This project aims to investigate environmental effect –such as dust and rain- on the performance of a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). However, those issues are frequently investigated in the horizontal axis wind turbines, but this subject has not been studied in vertical axis wind turbines. Impact of rain or dust particles on the turbine blades can change the turbine performance. So consideration of the impact of environmental factors on the performance of wind turbines is very important. Vertical axis wind turbines, particularly the straight bladed VAWT are widely used in wind power generation in agricultural and rural lighting and the use of this type of turbines is increasing... 

In this study the spouted bed with draft tube was investigated by discrete phase model for particulate phase and was tried to simulate the spouted bed with high precision by using of experimental data. So, the most accuracy combination of different parameters and sub models was specified. According to this study, the dispersed k-ԑ turbulence model and standard wall function make best prediction. Gidaspow drag model was used for prediction interaction between phases. This study include the effect of Saffman lift force and Rubinow-keller model was chosen for coefficient of Magnus lift force. In Addition, the solid movement pattern was studied in different area of bed especially in fountain... 

In this M.S. dissertation numerical study of slinger fuel distributer has been studied. This type of atomizer has been used in mini turbojets like Teledyne CAE.
The main purpose of this work was obtaining spray structure of slinger atomizers. This goal was achieved by implementing a UDF code in FLUENT® software to model the primary atomization that include variation of fluid from exit of slinger disk bores till formation of primary droplet. In FLUENT® the DPM method and its ability to utilizing Lagrangian approaches have been used. The result of this model is validated by the data from experimental test that can be found in Articles. This is the first time that spray structure of slinger... 

The production of agricultural products is one of the most important human economic activities. The issue of mechanized and optimal use of pesticides is vital for human health and the environment, and the use of helicopters makes this possible. Although spray-based systems in helicopters are one of the most effective ways to produce agricultural products, it is still unclear how droplet movement in aerial spraying is affected by the complex downwash flow created by rotors. Modeling agricultural air spray to identify the spray trend of droplets in the air stream, downwash flows, and consequent vortices has attracted more attention as a result of the development of computational fluid... 

The release of toxic materials causes tragic accidents every year. There are various techniques in order to mitigate the release effect of these materials such as Application of air jets, steam curtains and water curtains. This study presents numerical calculations to reproduce the continuous ammonia release dispersion with and without the mitigating influence of a downwind water curtain using computational fluid dynamic (CFD) software ANSYS Fluent 15.0. The RNG model coupled with Lagrangian discrete phase model (DPM) was used to simulate the dilution effectiveness of the water curtain system. The ammonia absorption was taken into account by means of user-defined functions (UDF). The... 

Annular combustion chambers used in small turbine motors which incorporate centrifugal (rotary) injectors for injecting fuel, are known as Slinger combustion chambers. The Slinger injector works in such a way that fuel enters from an inner tube in motor shaft and exits with high pressure from the holes on the cylinder connected to the shaft. Because of the high centrifugal force, the fuel is sprayed with high quality after entering the combustion chamber. Type and angle of spray, fuel-air mixing type, combustion phenomena and flame stability makes this different than other annular combustion chambers. The process of combustion in the Slinger chamber of YJ402 motor is numerically simulated in... 

Using a Numerical simulation approach for modeling multiphase flows is a cost-effective and prevalent method in analyzing the physics of multiphase problems. One of the most applied needs of industry in using gas-particle simulation is the separation of particles using Air Classifiers which are industrial devices that can classify solid inlet particles based on their size using airflow patterns and other mechanisms. The present study focuses on a particular type of classifier using vortex to classify particles. Performance of these classifiers simulated using numerical Eulerian-Lagrangian DDPM model. The two critical studied performance parameters of the classifier are pressure drop and...