In a solar chimney, the buoyancy induced flow of air generates ventilation of the building where the chimney is attached. When atmospheric wind blows over the upper part of a solar chimney, a mixed buoyancy-wind driving induced flow appears, and then the thermal behaviour of the chimney changes...

The effects of injection rate and the temperature of injected (or re-injected) water on reservoir temperature during power generation by utilizing hot fluids co-produced from oil and gas field were studied using a numerical simulation approach. The chosen target reservoir was LB oil reservoir...

Numerical study is carried out of a simplified system of solar-wind tower for ventilation of dwellings. The conservation equations for mass, momentum and energy for mixed convection in two-dimensional coordinates are solved by the control volume method and Simpler algorithm. The governing...

A control system for a vertical axis wind turbine is presented. The electric load is determined solely from the rotational velocity and the characteristics of the turbine, thus measurements of the incoming wind speed are not required. The control system is evaluated with an aerodynamic vortex...

Tile drainage systems are sometimes not sufficient to provide favorable unsaturated conditions in the rootzone. These drainage systems then need to be supplemented with an additional high conductivity material in the trenches above the tiles or by implementing mole drainage. The HYDRUS (2D/3D)...

There is a considerable amount of experimental evidence that unequivocally shows that there are fluids whose viscosity depends on both the mean normal stress (pressure) and the shear rate. Recently, global existence of solutions for the flow of such fluids for the three-dimensional case was...

In this paper, we consider two models that have been recently developed from a thermodynamic standpoint and that are capable of describing the response of nonlinear viscoelastic fluids. We test the efficacy of both models by comparing their predictions against torsion experiments conducted for...

The paper presents significant aspects of analytical and numerical simulation of a high-frequency converter with voltage-fed inverter, framing in over 10 years preoccupations of the Electric Powers Laboratory from our Technical University. Here some constructive-functional aspects are...

Remodelling is a dynamic process occurring during growth and it includes sensing of environmental changes, tissue resorbance, i.e. the removal of existing old bone, and formation of new tissue. The biomechanical remodelling process is relatively well formulated for bones and can be divided into...

We describe a newly established research project called SoftLab in the area of computational science and computational engineering. The SoftLab project attempts to link physical laboratory experimentation with computer control and simulation to provide a virtual laboratory for computational...