Contribution en hydraulique-aérodynamique par la méthode des vortex aléatoires
Contribution en hydraulique-aérodynamique par la méthode des vortex aléatoires

Author: Assad Abdulwahad

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13:

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Ce travail est consacré à l'étude et à la mise en oeuvre de la méthode des vortex aléatoires (Random Vortex Method (RVM)) qui permet de simuler des écoulements turbulents, bidimensionnels, incompressibles et instationnaires. L'algorithme de cette méthode et les conditions d'adhérence sont décrits. Deux types d'écoulements sont simulés. Le premier est l'écoulement de Couette-Poiseuille; le deuxième un écoulement pulsé autour d'une plaque plane (couche limite pulsée). Cette étude a permis de tester la RVM pour les deux types d'écoulements. Pour l'écoulement de Couette-Poiseuille, nous avons calculé le profil de vitesse moyenne ainsi que les grandeurs statistiques concernant les fluctuations de vitesses, et nous avons mis en évidence les structures cohérentes. Pour l'écoulement pulsé autour d'une plaque plane, des simulations sont réalisées pour une gamme de nombre de Reynolds (10[puissance]3-7.10[puissance]6). Une étude préliminaire expérimentale a été réalisée pour un écoulement pulsé autour d'une plaque plane afin de valider certains résultats numériques. Nous constatons un bon accord entre la simulation numérique et l'expérimentation.

Dictionary of Building and Civil Engineering
Dictionary of Building and Civil Engineering

Author: Don Montague

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9780419199106

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This dual-language dictionary lists over 20,000 specialist terms in both French and English, covering architecture, building, engineering and property terms. It meets the needs of all building professionals working on projects overseas. It has been comprehensively researched and compiled to provide an invaluable reference source in an increasingly European marketplace.

Advances in Hydroinformatics
Advances in Hydroinformatics

Author: Philippe Gourbesville

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-08-21

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 9812876154

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This book is a collection of extended papers based on presentations given during the SIMHYDRO 2014 conference, held in Sophia Antipolis in June 2014. It focuses on the modeling and simulation of fast hydraulic transients, on 3D modeling, and on uncertainties and multiphase flows. The book explores both the limitations and performance of current models and presents the latest developments based on new numerical schemes, high-performance computing, multiphysics and multiscale methods, and better interaction with field or scale model data. It addresses the interests of practitioners, stakeholders, researchers and engineers active in this field.

IUTAM Symposium on Variable Density Low-Speed Turbulent Flows
IUTAM Symposium on Variable Density Low-Speed Turbulent Flows

Author: Louis Fulachier

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9401154740

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The General Assembly of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in its meeting on August 28, 1994, selected for 1996 only four Mechanics Symposia, of which ours is the only one related to Fluid Mechanics: Variable Density Low Speed Turbulent Flows. This IUTAM Symposium, organized by the Institut de Recherche sur les Phenomenes Hors Equilibre (Marseille), is the logical continuation of the meetings previously organized or co-organized - on the French or European level, such as Euromech 237, Marseille, 1988 - by the same research group ofMarseille. This meeting focused specifically on the structure of turbulent flows in which density varies strongly : the effect of this variation on the velocity and scalar fields is in no sense negligible. We were mainly concerned with low-speed flows subjected to strong local changes of density as a consequence of heat or mass transfer or of chemical reactions. Compressible turbulent flows - such a!" supersonic ones - were also considered in order to underline their similarities to and their differences from low-speed variable density flows.

Biomimicry
Biomimicry

Author: Janine M. Benyus

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-08-11

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0061958921

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Repackaged with a new afterword, this "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems. Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes readers into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; harness energy by examining how a leaf converts sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; and many more examples. Composed of stories of vision and invention, personalities and pipe dreams, Biomimicry is must reading for anyone interested in the shape of our future.