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  Contents
 
Chapter 1 Bio fluids
  Effect of angiotensin II on heart blood flow and hypertension; Left ventricular flow propagation velocity: insights from a combined hydraulic and numerical model study; Extensional flow of liquid jets formed by bubble collapse near a free surface; Coupling of vascular MRI-velocity and CFD
 
Chapter 2 Convection, heat and mass transfer
  Benchmark solutions for the natural convective heat transfer problem in a square cavity; An explicit WET-type model for the turbulent scalar fluxes; On pore scale modelling of mechanical dispersion; Numerical study of transient mixed convection in vertical pipe flows; Characteristics of fluid flow and convection heat transfer in microchannels; Modelling of thermal exchange in an enclosed space; CFD based rating problem calculation of electrical LPG revaporizer
 
Chapter 3 Experimental versus simulation methods
  Collection of data to validate a numerical model of wave induced intrusion in a marine outfall; Numerical and experimental investigation of the near wake dynamics for a square prism
 
Chapter 4 Fluid structure interaction
  Bluff-body wake evolution and interaction in two dimensions; Oscillatory phenomena of a turbulent plane jet flowing inside a rectangular cavity; Hydrodynamical characteristics of a falling cylinder in water column; Three-dimensional hydrodynamic analysis of fluid flow between two eccentric rotating cylinders; Extraction of sea wave energy: a mathematical evaluation of a point absorber in heave
 
Chapter 5 Hydrodynamics
  The influence of Knudsen number on the hydrodynamic development length within parallel plate micro-channels; Experimental study of the flow structure in the near free-surface region; Nonhydraulic effects in particle-driven gravity currents in deep and shallow surroundings; Breakup of a flowing liquid film on vertical wall, subject to interfacial shear stress; Wolf software: a fully integrated device applied to modelling gradual dam failures and assessing subsequent risks; A panel method for two-dimensional nonlinear free surface flows; Stuart vortices in a stratified mixing layer: the Holmboe model; Adaptation of random walk methods to the modelling of liquid distribution in packed columns; Experimental investigation of breaking waves generated by a fast displacement ship model
 
Chapter 6 Industrial applications
 

Hydraulic behaviour of liquid in an annulus subjected to a perpendicular uniform flow at one end; Stokes flow between sinusoidal walls; Energy consumption and performance of the pump with a mixer - experimental tests

 
Chapter 7 Material properties and fluids
  Steady and transient infiltration in unsaturated soils with hydraulic diffusivity dependent on volumetric soil water content; A study of the tensile properties of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids under dynamic stressing by tension
 
Chapter 8 Multi phase flow
  Study of Couette flow of magnetizable suspensions in a magnetic field with consideration for the magnetic forces acting on the particles near the walls; Development of a predictive mathematical model for crossflow filtration of colloidal suspensions; Hydrodynamic interaction and coalescent motion of air-bubbles floating in liquid flow; Electro-osmotically induced convection at a charge-selective membrane; Compressible flow of saturated moist air with condensation phenomena; Evolution of the plug of two-phase flow during the turbine starting of the Coo-2 hydroelectric power station; Use of a simultaneous PLIF-PLIF technique to overcome optical problems in concentration measurements in two-phase bubbly system; A class of upwinding high resolution schemes applied to two-phase problems; Hydraulic characterization of a wastewater treatment clarifier by an acoustic Doppler current profiler
 
Chapter 9 Numerical methods in fluid mechanics
  Fluid flow in a channel partially filled with porous material; Drift forces on a floating or submerged spherical structure by multipole expansion method; The drag on a sphere in a tapered tube; Toward a construction of a class of scheme based on wavelet decomposition; An efficient finite volume scheme with improved artificial viscosity suitable for transonic-flow calculations; A noniterative method for boundary-layer equations. Two-dimensional unsteady laminar flows with separation; Performance of two new block implicit procedures for the treatment of the velocity-pressure coupling problem in incompressible fluid flow; Numerical simulation of asymmetric flow in a vertically downward intake; Numerical analysis of linear viscoelastic flow; Performance and prediction of centrifugal pumps with steady and unsteady CFD-methods; A comparison of first and second order spatial scheme for simulation of a bubbling fluidised bed; Parametrizing hybrid RANS-LES approaches with the renormalization group; Different grid strategies in fluid dynamics; Aerodynamics of a moving curveball in Newtonian flow
 
Chapter 10 Boundary layer flow and tidal dynamics
  Boundary layer flow with seepage; Tidal analysis and prediction of the flow characteristics around Abu Dhabi Island
 
Chapter 11 Turbulence
  On the accuracy of turbulence models for separated flows; Near wall considerations in turbulence model; Heat transfer in turbulent impinging jets with a nonlinear k-e model; Comparison of turbulence models for transient cool-down natural convection in a cylindrical cavity
 
Chapter 12 Wave modelling
 

Progressive waves in channels with some specific cross sections; The generation and propagation of transient long-crested surface waves using a waveform relaxation method; Nonlinear wave modulation in a prestressed thin elastic tube filled with an inviscid fluid; The boundary layer approximation and nonlinear waves in elastic tubes; Numerical simulation of wave overtopping over a smooth impermeable sea dike; Nonlinear dynamic waves in electromechanical excitable biological media