A three-dimensional nonlinear numerical model, that has been extensively used previously to predict environmental water flows, was applied to predict the flow over an isolated hill, Askervein. Predictions are reported for winds approaching the hill from 210" and 180" clockwise from north, both under almost neutral atmospheric conditions.The model predictions were compared with data collected during a major field study in 1983. From the comparisons it was concluded that the model predicts the mean flow variables with good accuracy. Larger discrepancies were found for quantities related to the turbulence, pointing to deficiencies in the turbulence model, and perhaps in some of the measurements.

We have developed a new laminar aerosol flow tube (AFT) to study transformations such as ice nucleation, deliquescence, and efflorescence in model atmospheric aerosols. The apparatus consists of four sections which can be independently cooled to reproduce temperature profiles relevant to the troposphere and stratosphere. An automatic control system maintains the average axial temperature along each section between 100 and 300K, within ±0.1K. Changes in aerosol composition, phase, and size distribution are monitored at the tube exit using infrared spectroscopy (AFT-IR). We used computational fluid dynamics simulations to investigate flow velocity and temperature distributions within the flow tube. Based on these computations, the final design was formulated to eliminate turbulent mixing zones and buoyancy-driven convection cells. The latter can occur even under conditions where the Reynolds number indicates laminar flow. In either case, recirculation causes aerosol residence times and temperature histories to be poorly defined, leading to erroneous interpretation of experimental measurements. The resulting AFT design used copper fins to reduce temperature gradients and axial mixing of aerosol and carrier gas flows in the inlet section to reduce turbulence. The performance of the new AFT is significantly better than for previous designs.

An exact discrete numerical solution to the Grabowski model for predicting cell adhesion to polymer surfaces is discussed. The solution technique allows the possibility of taking into account cell-cell interactions within the flow situation and the multistep process involved in thrombus formation. The proposed solution also allows modification of the wall reaction rate model into a two species reaction rate which distinguishes between the kinetics of contact adhesion and irreversible adhesion. The solution allows determination of effective diffusivity (De) and surface reaction rate (k) constants. Use of the model to examine available experimental data results in the following conclusions: (1) static or dynamic cell adhesion cannot be considered to be diffusion limited; (2) for flow conditions De is a monotonically increasing function of shear rate; (3) under static, i.e., zero flow conditions, De appears to be markedly larger than for flow conditions.

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This paper describes a method for calculating the shape of duct that leads to a prescribed pressure distribution on the duct walls. The proposed design method is computationally inexpensive, robust, and a simple extension of existing computational fluid dynamics methods; it permits the duct shape to be directly calculated by including the coordinates that define the shape of the duct wall as dependent variables in the formulation. This “direct design method” is presented by application to two-dimensional ideal flow in ducts. The same method applies to many problems in thermofluids, including the design of boundary shapes for three-dimensional internal and external viscous flows.