Modern civilization depends on the transport of liquid and gases in systems of pipes, just as humans depend on the transport of blood through arteries and veins 1. As fluids move through pipes, they ...

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Finite element methods (FEM) have become a cornerstone in simulating the interaction between free fluid flow and flow through porous media. In the context of Stokes-Darcy flow problems, FEM provides a ...

Editor’s note: The Basics department this month is an excerpt from the ISA book Flow of Industrial Fluids – Theory and Equations by Raymond Mulley. Some material in this section may seem self-evident ...

Scientists at the University of Washington have re-created the distinctive spiral shapes of shark intestines in 3D-printed pipes in order to study the unique fluid flow inside the spirals. Their ...

A “non-equilibrium” formulation of LBM with the additional terms underlined helps make the team’s implementation significantly less memory hungry. Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan ...

The banging of pipes often heard when a faucet is turned off or on is called “water hammer” and is due to the sudden arrest or reversal of direction of the water flow. Water hammer is a phenomenon ...