Progress in Scale Modeling, Volume II

This volume thoroughly covers scale modeling and serves as the definitive source of information on scale modeling as a powerful simplifying and clarifying tool used by scientists and engineers across many disciplines. The bookelucidates techniques used when it would be too expensive, or too difficult, to test a system of interest in the field. Topics addressed in the current edition include scale modeling to study weather systems, diffusion of pollution in air or water, chemical process in 3-D turbulent flow, multiphase combustion, flame propagation, biological systems, behavior of materials at nano- and micro-scales, and many more. This is an ideal book for students, both graduate and undergraduate, as well as engineers and scientists interested in the latest developments in scale modeling.This book also:Enables readers to evaluate essential and salient aspects of profoundly complex systems, mechanisms, and phenomena at scaleOffers engineers and designers a new point of view, liberating creative and innovative ideas and solutionsServes the widest range of readers across the engineering disciplines and in science and medicine

Introduction: Scale Modeling in the Age of High Speed Computation.- Part I: Natural Disasters and Structural Failures.- Section A: Earthquake.- Scale Modeling in the Geotechnical Engineering Field.- Supercomputing and Scale Modeling the Effect of Flotsam Mixed Tsunami: Implication to Tsunami Generated by the 2011 Great East Coast Earthquake.- Section B: Fire and Explosion.- Scale Modeling of Biomass Fire Associated with Hydrogen Producing Bacteria.- A Study of Flame Spread in Engineered Cardboard Fuelbeds: Part I: Correlations and Observations of Flame Spread.- A Study of Flame Spread in Engineered Cardboard Fuelbeds: Part II: Scaling Law Approach.- Application of Pressure Fire Modeling Under Low Pressure.- Observation of Confined Deflagration Phenomena of Flammable Gas Mixtures Under Elevated Gravity.- Extinguishment Characteristics of a Jet Diffusion Flame with Inert Gas Vortex Ring.- Effect of Gravity on Flame Spread Along a Thin Combustible Solid for Different Sample Orientations in Opposed-Flow.- Scale Effects on Consequence Analysis of Accidental Explosions.- Preliminary Reduced Scale Experimental Study on Pool Fires in Tunnels.- Scale-Model Experiment of Wind-Generated Fire Whirls.- Section C: Structures.- Seismic Behavior of Batter-Pile Foundation Based on Centrifuge Tests.- Characteristics of the Windmill Structural Fatigue Load in Natural Wind.- Part II: Engineering Design Performance Evaluation And Fundamental Understanding Using Scale Models.- Characteristics of Temperature-Fields and Flow-Fields in a Heated Street Canyon by Scale Modeling.- A Study of the Transition from Natural Convection to Force Convection in Plain and Louvered Fins with Scaling Simulations.- Scale and Numerical Modeling of an Air-Based Density Separator.- Scale-Up of Chemical Looping Combustion.- Scale Effect on Solid Fuel Regression in CAMUI Hybrid Rocket Motor.- Scale Effect Analysis for Locomotion Systems in Different Gravity Fields.- Scale Modeling of Flame Spread over PE-coated Electric Wires.- Scale Modeling of Air-Dropped Water for Aerial Firefighting against Urban Fire.- Effect of Porosity on Flame Spread Along Thin Combustible Solid with Randomly Distributed Pores.- Epilogue: Scale Modeling and Meditation.