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Natural slicks on Lake Geneva: From small-scale effects to large-scale formation and distribution

Low wind speeds (< 4 m/s) are ubiquitous in many water bodies, yet the physical processes occurring at the air-water interface in this range are poorly understood. A notable example is smooth patches on the water surface, known as natural slicks, formed wh ...

EPFL2023

Thermal Effects on Flow and Salinity Distributions in Coastal Confined Aquifers

David Andrew Barry, Li Pu

Coastal aquifers provide an important hydrologic connection between terrestrial freshwater and oceanic seawater. Understanding the water flow and salinity distributions in those aquifers is essential to manage seawater intrusion and regional groundwater re ...

AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2020

Sediment mass movement of a particle-laden turbidity current based on ultrasound velocity profiling and the distribution of sediment concentration

Giovanni De Cesare, Shun Nomura, Jumpei Hitomi

Particle-laden flows or turbidity currents along the seafloor are important to the formation and erosion of submarine topography. To understand the mass-transport process, flume tests were carried out with a continuous supply of quartz-laden suspension. Th ...

2018

Interface-fitted moving mesh method for axisymmetric two-phase flow in microchannels

John Richard Thome, Gustavo Rabello Dos Anjos, Erik Gros

A boundary-fitted moving mesh scheme is presented for the simulation of two-phase flow in two-dimensional and axisymmetric geometries. The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved using the finite element method, and the mini element is used to sa ...

Wiley2018

On the Efficiency Alteration Mechanisms Due to Cavitation in Kaplan Turbines

François Avellan, Sebastián Camilo Leguizamón Sarmiento

A transport-equation-based homogeneous cavitation model previously assessed and validated against experimental data is used to investigate and explain the efficiency alteration mechanisms in Kaplan turbines. On the one hand, it is shown that the efficiency ...

2017

Bacteria-induced mixing in natural waters

Alfred Johny Wüest, Oscar Rodrigo Sepúlveda Steiner, Talia Ekin Tokyay Sinha

Swimming organisms can enhance mixing in their natural environments by creating eddies in their wake and by dragging water along. However, these mixing mechanisms are inefficient for microorganisms, because swimming-induced variations in velocity, temperat ...

2017

Turbulent planar wakes under pressure gradient conditions

Fernando Porté Agel, Sina Shamsoddin

Accurate prediction of the spatial evolution of turbulent wake flows under pressure gradient conditions is required in some engineering applications such as the design of high-lift devices and wind farms over topography. In this paper, we aim to develop an ...

Cambridge University Press2017

Characterization of the velocity fields generated by flow initialization in the CFD simulation of multiphase flows

John Richard Thome, Mirco Magnini

Recent improvements in numerical algorithms for Eulerian-based CFD simulations of multiphase flows can now recover the exact balance between the pressure and surface tension terms within the momentum equation. This has led to the minimization of the so cal ...

Elsevier2016

Silicon straight tube fluid density sensor

Mohammad Najmzadeh

In this paper, a micromachined silicon straight tube is tested as a fluid density sensor. In comparison with other density measurement techniques, the use of micromachined tubes require small sample volumes and allows continuous monitoring of the fluid den ...

2007

Three-dimensional model for multi-component reactive transport with variable density groundwater flow

David Andrew Barry

PHWAT is a new model that couples a geochemical reaction model (PHREEQC-2) with a density-dependent groundwater flow and solute transport model (SEAWAT) using the split- operator approach. PHWAT was developed to simulate multi- component reactive transport ...

2006

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