Fluid Mechanics in Industry and Environment


Editor(s)
B.S. Dandapat and B.S. Mazumder



Table of Contents



Thin Liquid Film Flow and Instability

Nonlinear waves in liquid films
Sergey Alekseenko and Dmitriy Markovich

Attracting wave regimes in flowing liquid films
Grigori M. Sisoev

Falling liquid films: Heated substrates, chemical reactions and three-dimensional effects
Serafim Kalliadasis

Falling liquid films: Wave patterns and thermocapillary effects
Benoit Scheid

Weakly nonlinear dynamics of the longwave Marangoni instability in binary-liquid films with the Soret effect
Alla Podolny, Alexander Oron and Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy

Film flows down inclined planes: Modeling and analogy to river flows
Christian Ruyer-Quil

Application of thin film in potentially hazardous environment
Akihiro Kitamura

Effect of viscous dissipation on heat transfer of a liquid film over an unsteady stretching sheet
I-Chung Liu

Spreading of a thin-film of a power-law liquid on an inclined plane: Contact line motion
I. Mohammed Rizwan Sadiq and R. Usha

Dynamics of a thin conducting viscous film on an inclined plane in the presence of a uniform normal electric field
B. Uma


Multiphase Flow and Sediment Dynamics


Momentum-based model for sediment transport
Donald A. Drew and Emilio Castronovo

Transport phenomena at the air—water interface
Sanjoy Banerjee

Particle dynamics in turbulent shear flow
Paal H. Mortensen and Helge I. Andersson

Dispersion in flows through a tube subject to wall reactions
Chiu-On Ng

Experiments on suspension flows in open channels; results, implications and applications to professional activity
M. Cellino

Effect of channel geometry on dispersion of contaminants with exchange between two phases
Girija Jayaraman

Jet scour: A revisit of two-dimensional and three-dimensional scour problem
M. A. A. Faruque, Alex Bey, Jueyi Sui and Ram Balachandar

Seabed boundary layer and sediment dynamics under irregular waves plus current. Stochastic and dynamic approaches
Dag Myrhaug and Lars Erik Holmedal

Ecological restoration of a large river with high sediment rates: Application of RMA-2 model to construct artificial islands utilizing deposited sediments
Nani G. Bhowmik

Non-Markovian modelling of fiuid flow: Moments and probability frequency representations
K. S. S. Iyer S. K. Das and B. S. Mazumder

Detachment of clay-gravel mixtures by channel flow
Umesh C. Kothyari and Rajesh Kumar Jain

Flow characteristics over gravel-beds at near-threshold
Subhasish Dey and Rajkumar V. Raikar

Turbulent flow in submerged jumps on rough beds
Subhasish Dey and Arindam Sarkar

A statistical approach to correlate arsenic contamination in ground water with some related parameters ― A case study from Malda district,West Bengal, Eastern India
Barendra Purkait and Amitava Mukherjee

Investigations on scouring process due to multiple offset jets
Dipa Dey and T.I. Eldho

Characteristics of scouring horseshoe vortex and protection of scour around bridge piers and abutments
T. Gangadharaiah, Baldev Setia, Mohammed Muzzammil and R. Seshagiri Rao

A new instrument for measurement of cohesive sediment erosion, re-suspension and bed load from field experiments
Koustuv Debnath and Vladimir Nikora


Flow through Porous Media


Nonlinear electrohydrodynamic study of stratified poorly conducting fluid through porous media
N. Rudraiah

On a model for flow through porous media at high pressures
K. R. Rajagopal

Computational modeling of heat transfer of a third grade viscoelastic fluid in a non-darcy porous medium with thermophysical effects
R. Bhargava, S. Rawat, Tasveer A. Bég, O. Anwar Bég and H. S. Takhar

Numerical study of rotating flow with slip condition
T. Hayat, R. Ravindran, E. Momoniat and F. M. Mahomed

Modelling of displacement washing of pulp fibers using orthogonal-collocation on finite elements
Shelly Arora, S.S. Dhaliwal and V.K. Kukreja


Water Waves, Tsunami and Related Topics


Coastal hazards from tsunami and storm surges
S.K. Dube

Trapped waves involving multi-layered fluid media
A. Chakrabarti

Tsunami — generation, propagation and effects
V. Sundar and S. A. Sannasiraj

Analysis of modified Reynolds equation using Wavelet-Multigrid scheme
N.M. Bujurke, C.S. Salimath, Ramesh B. Kudenatti and S.C. Shiralashetti

Expansion formulae for wave structure interaction problems in two-layer fluids
J. Bhattacharjee and T. Sahoo

Flexural gravity wavemaker problem-revisited
D. Karmakar and T. Sahoo

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