Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power – Contemporary Research: Proceedings of the 5th International and 41st National Conference on FMFP 2014 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)

This volume comprises the proceedings of the 42nd National and 5th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power held at IIT Kanpur in December, 2014.The conference proceedings encapsulate the best deliberations held during the conference. The diversity of participation in the conference, from academia, industry and research laboratories reflects in the articles appearing in the volume. This contributed volume has articles from authors who have participated in the conference on thematic areas such as Fundamental Issues and Perspectives in Fluid Mechanics; Measurement Techniques and Instrumentation; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Instability, Transition and Turbulence; Turbomachinery; Multiphase Flows; Fluid‐Structure Interaction and Flow‐Induced Noise; Microfluidics; Bio‐inspired Fluid Mechanics; Internal Combustion Engines and Gas Turbines; and Specialized Topics. The contents of this volume will prove useful to researchers from industry and academia alike. Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Effect of Inlet Shear on the Flow Structures Associated with Elevated Jet in Cross-Flow at Low Reynolds Number....Pages 3-10 Slip Flow of a Shear-Thinning Power-Law Fluid Past an Assemblage of Spherical Particles....Pages 11-21 Design and Characterization of Liquid Centered Swirl-Coaxial Injector....Pages 23-32 Wall Shear Rates Generated During Coalescence of Pendant and Sessile Drops....Pages 33-42 Effect of Aft Wall Offset on Supersonic Flow over Cavity....Pages 43-51 Effect of Free Surface on Submerged Synthetic Jet Parallel to the Surface....Pages 53-61 Study of Shock Wave/Turbulent Boundary Layer Interaction over a Forward-Facing Step....Pages 63-71 Energy Loss Minimizing Drag Reduction and Self-propulsion Strategies....Pages 73-81 Design of a Cyclone Separator for Cleaning of Dust from Volumetric Air Receiver....Pages 83-93 Influence of Delta Wing Vortex Generator on Counter Rotating Vortex Pair in Film Cooling Application of Gas Turbine Blade....Pages 95-103 Influence of Aeration on the Hydrodynamic Behavior of a Pressurized Circulating Fluidized Bed....Pages 105-114 Characteristics of Two-Dimensional Flow Past a Square Cylinder Placed in a Channel with High Blockage....Pages 115-123 Aerothermodynamics of a Blunt Airfoil with a Flow-Through Duct for Hypersonic Flight....Pages 125-134 Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Induced Liquid Atomization....Pages 135-144 Onsager’s Principle Consistent 13 Moments Transport Equations....Pages 145-153 Front Matter....Pages 155-155 Experimental Investigations on Onset of Slugging in Horizontal Air-Water Two-Phase Flow....Pages 157-166 Study of Orifice Inclination Effect on Synthetic Jet Characteristics Using Laser Doppler Velocimetry and Laser Induced Fluorescence....Pages 167-175 Particle Image Velocimetry Study of Sonic Jet Injected into Supersonic Crossflow....Pages 177-184 Investigations into Asymmetric Oscillations of a Symmetric Airfoil....Pages 185-194 Exhaust Gas Flow Field Simulation of an Internal Combustion Engine for a Thermal Sensor....Pages 195-203 Front Matter....Pages 155-155 Estimation of Equilibrium Moisture Content and Drying Time of Potato Through Hot Air Drying....Pages 205-213 Effect of Sodium Pyrophosphate and Polyethylene Oxide on Thermal Diffusivity of Laponite RD Colloidal Suspension....Pages 215-227 Numerical Simulation and Experimental Validation of Future FBR Surge Tank Hydraulics....Pages 229-238 Flow Characteristics of Synthetic Jet on Torpedo Shape Model in Cross Flow....Pages 239-247 Front Matter....Pages 249-249 CFD Simulation Studies of High Performance Computing (HPC) Facilities....Pages 251-267 Effect of Wall Proximity on the Flow Over a Heated Square Bluff Body....Pages 269-278 A Finite Volume Moving Mesh Method for the Simulation of Compressible Flows....Pages 279-287 Reverse Flow in Converging Channels with Obstruction at the Entry....Pages 289-300 A Hybrid Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Approach for Axisymmetric Body in Hypersonic Flow....Pages 301-311 Control of Vortex Shedding Behind a Circular Cylinder Using a Combination of Slot and Control Plates....Pages 313-321 Improved Methodology for Mass Conservation in Sharp Interface Immersed Boundary Method for Moving Boundaries....Pages 323-332 Computation of the Flowfield in the Vicinity of an Electric Vehicle Platform....Pages 333-341 Implementation of Matrix Dissipation Scheme for Numerical Simulations of Two Dimensional Navier-Stokes Equations....Pages 343-352 Effect of Reynolds Number, Strouhal Number and Amplitude of Oscillation on Pulsating Flow Characteristics Through a Circular Pipe....Pages 353-362 Mixed Convection in a Ventilated Enclosure with Different Heater Position....Pages 363-374 Evaluation of Flow Properties of Air at the Exit of Holes on the Blow Pipe in a Pulse Jet Filter Bag House....Pages 375-383 Forced Convection from an Inclined Elliptical Cylinder with Constant Heat Flux: Effect of Prandtl Number....Pages 385-394 Laminar Natural Convection in a Square Duct from Two Heated Horizontal Cylinders: Effect of Prandtl Number....Pages 395-403 Flow Analysis of Subsonic and Supersonic Nozzles....Pages 405-419 A Comparative Analysis of Heat Transfer in Extended Surfaces with and Without Holes....Pages 421-429 Front Matter....Pages 249-249 Computation of Variable Density Flows on Hybrid Unstructured Grids....Pages 431-437 Numerical Simulation of Solidification and Melting Problems on Unstructured Grid....Pages 439-448 Numerical Simulation of Pulsatile Flow Past Heated Square Cylinders....Pages 449-456 3D Unsteady Numerical Simulation of All-Vanadium Redox Flow Battery....Pages 457-466 Computation of Flow Coupled with the Electric Field on Unstructured Grid....Pages 467-476 A Combined Implementation of Overset Grid and Patched Grid Methodologies....Pages 477-486 Numerical Investigation of Free Jet Expansion of Gas Mixture....Pages 487-495 CFD Study on Thermal Hydraulic Performance of A Wavy Channel Based PCHE Model....Pages 497-506 Thermo-Hydraulic Performance of Zigzag, Wavy, and Serpentine Channel Based PCHEs....Pages 507-516 CFD Analysis of Water Cooled Flame Deflector in Rocket Engine Test Facility....Pages 517-528 Computational Study of Three Dimensional Wall Jet on Concave Surface....Pages 529-538 Design and Simulation of a Low Speed Wind Tunnel with Analysis of Wind Effects on an Airfoil (CFD)....Pages 539-549 A 3D Numerical Study on Opposed Flow Flame-Spread over Thin Parallel Fuel Sheets of Finite Widths in Microgravity....Pages 551-558 Simulation of Mixed Convection Flow in Square Cavities by Lattice Boltzmann Method....Pages 559-568 Unified Solver for Thermobuoyant Flows on Unstructured Meshes....Pages 569-580 Front Matter....Pages 581-581 Large Eddy Simulation of Smoke Spread in a Multi-storied Building....Pages 583-593 Numerical Simulation of Isothermal Cruciform Jet Flow....Pages 595-604 Analysis of Turbulence in Entrance Regime of Rectangular Duct Using Hot Film Anemometer....Pages 605-614 Evaluation of the Gas Kinetic Scheme Based on Analytical Solution to the BGK Model for Simulating Compressible Turbulent Flows....Pages 615-623 Redesigning of Motorcycle Helmet for Improved Air Ventilation Using Numerical Simulations....Pages 625-635 Front Matter....Pages 581-581 Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Stationary Two-Pass Square Duct with V-ribs....Pages 637-647 Pressure Hessian Evolution in Compressible Turbulence....Pages 649-658 Self-sustained Oscillation for a Three Dimensional Transonic Cavity Using LES....Pages 659-668 CFD Analysis of Particle Laden Flow in a Cyclone Separator Using RANS and LES Methodologies....Pages 669-678 Peculiar Behavior of Thermally Stratified Channel Flow Under Non-Boussinesq Condition....Pages 679-686 Flow Control in T-Junction Using CFD Based Optimization....Pages 687-696 Grid Size Optimization for Diesel Injection Spray Nozzle Using CFD Analysis....Pages 697-712 Simulation of Unsteady Wall-Jet in a Confined Geometry and Identification of Coherent Structures Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition....Pages 713-721 Two Phase Flow Stability Analysis of Multiple Horizontal Uniformaly Heated Channel....Pages 723-736 Experimental Study of Boundary Effects on Buoyant Jet Dynamics in Linearly Stratified Medium....Pages 737-745 Front Matter....Pages 747-747 Real-Time Pole Placement Control of the Rugged Electrohydraulic System....Pages 749-763 Performance Evaluation of Hydraulic Francis Runner at Different Blade Stagger....Pages 765-773 Detailed Heat Transfer Investigation Inside a Rectangular Duct with an Array of Ventilated Rib Turbulators....Pages 775-784 A Novel Design Philosophy for Mixed Flow Compressor....Pages 785-793 Effect of Slanted Perforation in Tabs for Subsonic and Transonic Jets....Pages 795-809 Computational Analysis of Unsteady Flow in Turbine Part of Turbocharger....Pages 811-820 Computational Study of Pressure Side Film Cooling—Effect of Density Ratio with Combination of Holes....Pages 821-831 Influence of Endwall Clearance on HSV and Passage Flow Between Two Turbine Cascade Blades....Pages 833-842 Aerothermal Analysis of Insulation to Protect Exhaust Ducts of a Pusher Turbo Prop Engine Aircraft....Pages 843-851 Study of Noise and Vibration Signal for a Radial Flow Pump During Performance Test....Pages 853-861 Front Matter....Pages 747-747 Development of One of the World’s Largest Single Stage Vertical Centrifugal Pumps for Lift Irrigation Scheme....Pages 863-870 Numerical Analysis of Effects of Turbine Blade Tip Shape on Secondary Losses....Pages 871-879 Experimental Investigations on Pump Running in Turbine Mode with Different Draft Tubes....Pages 881-890 Numerical Simulation of Regenerative Pump....Pages 891-900 Multistage Hydraulic Cylinder Buckling Analysis by Classical and Numerical Methods with Different Mounting Conditions....Pages 901-910 CFD Analysis of Impeller-Diffuser Interaction in a Centrifugal Compressor with Twisted Vaned Diffuser....Pages 911-922 Numerical Studies on the Effect of Purge Flow on the Performance and Flow Field of a Gas Turbine with Disc Cavity....Pages 923-932 Computational Studies on the Effect of Speed Ratio and Stagger Angle in a Counter Rotating Turbine with Respect to Flow Field and Performance....Pages 933-944 Front Matter....Pages 945-945 Petroleum Reservoir Simulation of Two-Phase Flow....Pages 947-956 Collapse of a Taylor Bubble at Free Surface: An Experimental Investigation....Pages 957-967 Impingement of Aviation Fuel Drop on Stainless Steel Surface....Pages 969-977 Drag on Partially Contaminated Bubble Swarms in Power-Law Fluids....Pages 979-988 Taylor Bubble Dynamics in Pipe Fittings: A Numerical Study....Pages 989-1002 Evaluation of Forcing Schemes in Pseudopotential Based Multiphase Lattice Boltzmann Model....Pages 1003-1010 Determination of Two Phase Flow Slug Velocity and Length Using Infrared Sensor....Pages 1011-1017 Implementation of Modified-CICSAM Algorithm for Three Dimensional Two Phase Flow....Pages 1019-1028 Transition in the Elliptical Jet Characteristics from Super to Subcritical Conditions....Pages 1029-1038 Computational Prediction of the Performance of Positive Displacement Pumps....Pages 1039-1048 Spline Based Modeling of Two-Dimensional Droplets on Rough and Heterogeneous Surfaces....Pages 1049-1058 Modelling of a Single Bubble Rising in a Liquid Column....Pages 1059-1068 Front Matter....Pages 945-945 Flow over Fluvial Bedforms with Suction....Pages 1069-1077 Performance Enhancement of Rotary Desiccant Wheel by Innovative Designs of Multiple Desiccant Layers....Pages 1079-1089 Effect of Orifice Recess on the Droplet Size Distribution of Sprays Discharging from Gas-Centered Swirl Coaxial Atomizers....Pages 1091-1100 Eulerian-Eulerian Modeling of Dispersed Laminar Gas-Particle Flows over an Unstructured Grid....Pages 1101-1110 A Hybrid Grid Based Algebraic Volume of Fluid Method for Interfacial Flows....Pages 1111-1119 Lattice Boltzmann Modelling of Capillarity-Induced Resonance of Blob Inside a Circular Tube....Pages 1121-1130 An Experimental Investigation to Analyse the Heat Transfer Characteristics of Hot Surface by Obliquely Impinging Liquid Jet....Pages 1131-1140 Level Set Method Based Simulations on Impact-Dynamics of Bouncing and Non-bouncing Droplet on Super-Hydrophobic Substrates....Pages 1141-1149 Euler-Lagrange Simulations of Gas-Liquid Flow in a Basic Oxygen Furnace and Experimental Verification....Pages 1151-1161 Unsaturated Physical Non-equilibrium Contaminant Transport Modeling Using Modified FEMWATER....Pages 1163-1170 Shape and Size of the Entrained Liquid Mass by a Taylor Bubble Rising Through a Liquid-Liquid Interface....Pages 1171-1179 Volume-of-Solid Immersed Boundary Method for Free Surface Flows with Arbitrary Moving Rigid Bodies....Pages 1181-1192 Motion of a Drop in Viscous Fluid Along an Inclined Plane....Pages 1193-1199 Front Matter....Pages 1201-1201 Experimental Investigations on Aft Ramp Cavities with Fore Wall Modifications in Scramjet Combustors....Pages 1203-1212 Effect of Damping Length on Dynamic Performance of Two-Stage Two-Spool Electrohydraulic Servovalve....Pages 1213-1222 Adaptive Fuzzy—Sliding Mode Control with Fixed Bias Compensator for an Electrohydraulic Actuation System with Hard Nonlinearities....Pages 1223-1232 Numerical Analysis of Flow Separation in Rocket Nozzles....Pages 1233-1242 Control of Cross-Wind Forces on a Finite Circular Cylinder at Subcritical Reynolds Number....Pages 1243-1251 Effect of Free Stream Turbulence on Flow over a Circular Cylinder in the Sub-critical Regime: An Experimental Investigation....Pages 1253-1262 CFD Study on Flow Across a Stationary Cylinder in Between Two Counter-Rotating Control Cylinders....Pages 1263-1272 Front Matter....Pages 1201-1201 Fluid Structure Interaction of a Flexible Plate in a Compressible Medium....Pages 1273-1282 Effect of Attached Type Splitter Plate Length over a Square Prism in Subcritical Reynolds Number....Pages 1283-1292 Investigation of Flow Interference Between Two Inline Square Cylinders With Different Spacing Ratios in Subcritical Reynolds Number Regime....Pages 1293-1301 Front Matter....Pages 1303-1303 Influence of Surface Contact Angle on Uphill Motion of Droplets Due to Electostatic Actuation....Pages 1305-1313 Performance Analysis of Uniform and Expanding Cross-Section Microchannels for Single Phase and Flow Boiling Heat Transfer....Pages 1315-1322 Convection Inside a Pinned Water Droplet During Drying Process....Pages 1323-1330 Analysis of Heat Transfer in the Slip Flow Region Between Parallel Plates....Pages 1331-1339 Analysis of Static and Dynamic Contact Angles of Ferrofluid Droplets for Magnetically Actuated Micropumps....Pages 1341-1349 Analysis of Drop Spreading upon Impact on Dual-Textured Surface....Pages 1351-1360 On-Chip Microfluidic Separation of Biological Entities in Field Flow Fractionation and Split Flow Thin Fractionation Devices....Pages 1361-1369 Experimental Measurement of Vibration of Liquid Droplet at Low Bond Numbers Using ESPI....Pages 1371-1379 Estimation of Permeability of Porous Material Using Pore Scale LBM Simulations....Pages 1381-1388 Front Matter....Pages 1389-1389 Reverse Engineering of Diffusion-Limited Controlled Drug Delivery Devices....Pages 1391-1400 Effect of Sinusoidal Gust on Thrust Generated by a Plunging Airfoil....Pages 1401-1409 Particle Image Velocimetry Measurements of Rigid and Flexible Rectangular Wings Undergoing Main Flapping Motion in Hovering Flight....Pages 1411-1420 Experimental Study of Oscillatory Flow in a Rigid and a Compliant Tubular Bulge....Pages 1421-1431 The Effects of Leading Edge Orientation on the Aerodynamic Performance of Dragon Fly Wing Section in Gliding Flight....Pages 1433-1441 CFD Study on Hydrodynamics of Three Fish-Like Undulating Hydrofoils in Side-by-Side Arrangement....Pages 1443-1451 Front Matter....Pages 1453-1453 Investigations on Premixed Charge Compression Ignition (PCCI) Engines: A Review....Pages 1455-1463 Computational Modelling of a Novel Fire Extinguisher Design....Pages 1465-1473 Front Matter....Pages 1453-1453 Correlation of Equivalence Ratio with Spectrometric Analysis for Premixed Combustion....Pages 1475-1483 Reacting Flow Simulation of Rocket Nozzles....Pages 1485-1495 Effect of Load Level on Performance and Emission Characteristics of a Biogas Run Dual Fuel Diesel Engine....Pages 1497-1508 Numerical Study of the Cavity Geometry on Supersonic Combustion with Transverse Fuel Injection....Pages 1509-1518 Performance and Emission Analysis of a Single Cylinder CI Engine using Simarouba glauca Biodiesel....Pages 1519-1527 Front Matter....Pages 1529-1529 Solar Convective Furnace for Heat Treatment of Aluminium....Pages 1531-1541 Front Matter....Pages 1543-1543 Design and Characterization of a Novel Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuator for Flow Control Application....Pages 1545-1554 Instability Modes and Dimensional Analysis of Micro/Nano Electro-Encapsulation Process....Pages 1555-1563 Oscillations of a Sessile Droplet in Contact and Non-contact Modes Under an AC Electric Field....Pages 1565-1574 Flow in Thermomagnetic Energy Conversion Loops....Pages 1575-1583 A Meshfree Framework for Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics....Pages 1585-1594 Front Matter....Pages 1595-1605 Dune Formation in Horizontal Pneumatic Conveying System....Pages 1607-1607 A Qualitative Assessment of Different Regimes During Concentric and Eccentric Discharge a Silo....Pages 1609-1616 Front Matter....Pages 1617-1626 Steady State and Transient Characteristics of Natural Circulation Loop....Pages 1627-1627 Entropy Generation Analysis of a Nuclear Fuel Element Surrounded by a Flow of Coolant Through an Annular Channel....Pages 1629-1639 Heat Transfer Characteristics of Hot Surface Using High Alcohol Surfactant by Impinging Liquid Jet....Pages 1641-1651 Numerical Investigation on an Obliquely Impinging Circular Air Jet on a Heated Flat Plate at Small Jet Plate Spacing....Pages 1653-1662 Numerical Investigation on Orthogonal Impingement of Circular Air Jet on a Heated Flat Plate at Low Jet Plate Spacing....Pages 1663-1672 Comparison of Lumped Parameter and CFD Code Predictions: Sump Evaporation Phenomena....Pages 1673-1683 Back Matter....Pages 1685-1696 ....Pages 1697-1701 This volume comprises the proceedings of the 42nd National and 5th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power held at IIT Kanpur in December, 2014. The conference proceedings encapsulate the best deliberations held during the conference. The diversity of participation in the conference, from academia, industry and research laboratories reflects in the articles appearing in the volume. This contributed volume has articles from authors who have participated in the conference on thematic areas such as Fundamental Issues and Perspectives in Fluid Mechanics; Measurement Techniques and Instrumentation; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Instability, Transition and Turbulence; Turbomachinery; Multiphase Flows; Fluid-Structure Interaction and Flow-Induced Noise; Microfluidics; Bio-inspired Fluid Mechanics; Internal Combustion Engines and Gas Turbines; and Specialized Topics. The contents of this volume will prove useful to researchers from industry and academia alike