... and turbomachines RANS simulations Rotating fluids unsteady flows Vacuum and lower pressures are needed in many applications, and these include drying paper in papermaking [ 1 ], freeze drying of pharmaceuticals [ 2 ], composite plastic molding [ 3 ], ion implantation in semiconductor processing [ 4...

... hydraulic stability characteristics of the large prototype Francis turbine are found, and other results are also obtained. 13 03 2018 17 07 2018 Experimental techniques Fluid instability Rotating fluids Stability Transition In recent years, some new renewable energy...

... fluid dynamics RANS simulations Rotating fluids Turbulence Turbulence modeling Unsteady flows Vortices Wakes Boundary layer flows over three-dimensional (3D) curved bodies such as an axisymmetric hill are of interest to the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) community due...

... (e.g., the European market) or to provide short-time production to fulfill spot-market contracts. Computational fluid dynamics Fluid instability Hydrodynamics Pumps Rotating fluids Vortices Turbomachines 01 11 2017 08 02 2018 Contributed by the Fluids Engineering...

... fluid dynamics Multiphase flows Pumps Rotating fluids Turbomachines 09 10 2017 17 04 2018 Contributed by the Fluids Engineering Division of ASME for publication in the J OURNAL OF F LUIDS E NGINEERING . Manuscript received October 9, 2017; final manuscript received April 17...

..., 2017; final manuscript received December 7, 2017; published online February 6, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Hui Hu. 31 05 2017 07 12 2017 Aerodynamics Fluid-structure interaction Rotating fluids Unsteady flows C , c = damping matrix C p...

... in the J OURNAL OF F LUIDS E NGINEERING . Manuscript received February 25, 2017; final manuscript received September 22, 2017; published online December 4, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Matevz Dular. 25 02 2017 22 09 2017 Computational fluid dynamics Rotating fluids Unsteady flows Vortices...

..., 2016; final manuscript received August 14, 2017; published online November 3, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Olivier Coutier-Delgosha. 08 08 2016 14 08 2017 Acoustics Aerodynamics Complex flows Computational fluid dynamics Rotating fluids Wakes Contra-rotating open rotors (CROR...

..., 2017; published online October 24, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Olivier Coutier-Delgosha. 20 07 2016 16 05 2017 Computational fluid dynamics Fluid instability Pumps Rotating fluids Vortices Turbomachines Centrifugal pumps are widely used in industry. To ensure efficient...

... to thank the authors of the papers for their efforts in preparing these contributions, and all the reviewers for their help to improve the papers and identify the most suitable contributions for this Special Issue. 01 09 2017 11 09 2017 Rotating fluids Although nearly 5000 years...

... manuscript received February 25, 2017; published online October 19, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Olivier Coutier-Delgosha. 26 07 2016 25 02 2017 Cavitation Fluid instability Hydrodynamics Measurement techniques Multiphase flows Pumps Rotating fluids Fluid mechanics Turbomachines...

... online October 19, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Daniel Livescu. 12 04 2017 02 09 2017 Complex flows Drag Duct Rotating fluids Channel Pipe flows Ball valve, as a necessary component in the pipeline system, is commonly used to regulate flow rate and flow direction or control...

... Computational fluid dynamics Experimental techniques Hydrodynamics Measurement techniques Pressure drop Pumps Rotating fluids Turbulence modeling Unsteady flows Vortices Wakes Fluid mechanics Turbomachines Hydropower plays a vital role to maintain stable and uninterrupted operation...

.... Nikolos. 29 03 2017 02 07 2017 Computational fluid dynamics Hydrodynamics Pressure drop Pumps Rotating fluids Turbomachines Centrifugal pumps are prone to large axial forces due to highly pressurized fluid acting on unsymmetrical profiles of front and rear shroud...

... May 28, 2017; published online August 28, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Wayne Strasser. 02 02 2017 28 05 2017 Hydrodynamics Pumps Rotating fluids Turbomachines A progressing cavity pump (PCP) is a positive displacement pump [ 1 ] used as an effective artificial lift method...

..., 2017; published online August 8, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Daniel Livescu. 31 10 2016 10 05 2017 Computational fluid dynamics Fluid instability Mixing Newtonian flows Pumps RANS simulations Rotating fluids Stability Vortices Turbomachines Transition Many scientific...

... NGINEERING . Manuscript received September 8, 2016; final manuscript received February 28, 2017; published online May 18, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Riccardo Mereu. 08 09 2016 28 02 2017 Fluid instability Fluid-structure interaction Multiphase flows Rotating fluids Unsteady flows Vortices...

.... 26 05 2015 26 10 2016 Duct LES Rotating fluids Turbulence modeling Channel Pipe flows As all the three models perform very similar in predicting the mean velocity, we will further discuss higher-order statics. Figure 3 shows the Reynolds stress components calculated...

...., the rotating cavity around the pick-up tube). Roughness in the rotor cavity means increasing energy in the rotating fluid body, which results in higher power consumption but also higher head. It can be shown in Fig. 10 that the simulations agree very well with this trend. Taking into account a surface...

... Aerodynamics Computational fluid dynamics Pumps Rotating fluids Turbomachines Microfluidics has gaining significant attention in the last years (see, e.g., Sharp [ 1 ]). Microflow applications are of special interest in bioengineering fields, such as microfluidic mixers [ 2 ], cavity-driven...