• Off-design Simulations of Offshore Combined Cycles 

      Flatebø, Øystein (Master thesis, 2012)
      This thesis presents an off-design simulation of offshore combined cycles. Offshore installations have a substantial power demand to facilitate the oil and gas production. To cover this need of power almost all the platforms ...
    • Offshore Power Plants Integrating a Wind Farm: Design Optimisation and Techno-Economic Assessment Based on Surrogate Modelling 

      Riboldi, Luca; Nord, Lars O. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The attempt to reduce the environmental impact of the petroleum sector has been the driver for researching energy efficient solutions to supply energy offshore. An attractive option is to develop innovative energy systems ...
    • Offshore Rankine Cycles 

      Brandsar, Jo (Master thesis, 2012)
      The title of the thesis - "Offshore Rankine Cycles" - is very general and cover a large range of engineering fields, e.g. thermodynamic cycles (Rankine, ORC, Brayton, Kalina, etc.), mechanical equipment (gas/steam turbine, ...
    • Oil Based Solar Concentrator with Heat Storage 

      Skahjem, Ragnhild; Duley, Silje Fosseng (Master thesis, 2016)
      A test system for storing solar thermal energy in the form of hot oil is constructed and tested. The motivation for the work is the need for a thermal energy storage which provides heat, from solar concentrators, for food ...
    • Oil-free turbocompressors for CO2 as working fluid 

      Kus, Bartosz (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2013:299, Doctoral thesis, 2013)
      Compressing equipment can be found in almost every area of our industrialized society. Compressors drive our fridges, air conditioning systems and enable turbine engines to propel the aircrafts we use when going for holidays ...
    • Olje-vann separasjon i rør 

      Gjerde, Asbjørn Øye (Master thesis, 2012)
      Transiente motstrøms tyngdekrafts-drevne olje-vann strømningsforsøk ble gjort i en to meter lang lukket plexiglass sylinder. Et enkelt eksperimentelt oppsett baser på visuelle observasjoner ble laget med formål for disse ...
    • Olje-vann separasjon i rør 

      Heggebø, Henrik Eiane (Master thesis, 2012)
      Transiente motstrøms tyngdekrafts-drevne olje-vann strømningsforsøk ble gjort i en to meter lang lukket plexiglass sylinder. Et enkelt eksperimentelt oppsett baser på visuelle observasjoner ble laget med formål for disse ...
    • On exergy analysis of industrial plants and significance of ambient temperature 

      Rian, Anne Berit (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2011:80, Doctoral thesis, 2011)
      The exergy analysis has been a relatively mature theory for more than 30 years. However, it is not that developed in terms of procedures for optimizing systems, which partly explains why it is not that common. Misconceptions ...
    • On Flywheel Batteries 

      Spakmo, Jo Emil; Langelid, Magnus (Bachelor thesis, 2023)
      Energilagringssystemer forbedrer effektiviteten i elektriske systemer under ubalanser mellom tilbud og etterspørsel, og bidrar til å øke nettverkets stabilitet og kvalitet. De reduserer ujevnheten i fornybar energiproduksjon ...
    • On heat transfer in Bödewadt flow 

      Rahman, Muhammad; Andersson, Helge Ingolf (Journal article, 2017)
      Heat transfer in revolving Bo¨dewadt flow above a planar surface has been considered. We have shown that a similarity solution of the thermal energy problem does not exist as long as the surface is impermeable. The failure ...
    • On interface transfer terms in two-fluid models 

      Flåtten, Tore; Morin, Alexandre (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      In this note we consider two-fluid models based on the usual formulations for conservation of mass, total momentum and total energy. We present some potentially useful general relationships between the interface exchange ...
    • On isotropic turbulence in the dark fluid universe 

      Brevik, Iver Håkon; Gorbunova, Olesya; Nojiri, Shin'ichi; Odintsov, Sergei D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      As a first part of this work, experimental information about the decay of isotropic turbulence in ordinary hydrodynamics, is used as input in FRW equations in order to investigate how an initial fraction f of turbulent ...
    • On Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Chemical Kinetics in Turbulent Lean Premixed Combustion 

      Lilleberg, Bjørn (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2011:206, Doctoral thesis, 2011)
      This thesis investigates turbulent reacting lean premixed flows with detailed treatment of the chemistry. First, the fundamental equations which govern laminar and turbulent reacting flows are presented. A perfectly stirred ...
    • On mathematical modelling and mumerical simulation of transient compressible flow across open boundaries 

      Rian, Kjell Erik (Dr. ingeniøravhandling, 0809-103X; 2003:73, Doctoral thesis, 2003)
      In numerical simulations of turbulent reacting compressible flows, artificial boundaries are needed to obtain a finite computational domain when an unbounded physical domain is given. Artificial boundaries which fluids are ...
    • On Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flows and Combustion 

      Lysenko, Dmitry (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2014:76, Doctoral thesis, 2014)
      The goal of the present doctoral thesis was to develop a turbulence-chemistry interaction model for turbulent combustion simulations for high Reynolds number flows of practical interest. Present simulations were carried ...
    • On particle transport and turbulence in wellbore flows of non-Newtonian fluids - Findings from a cuttings transport process analysis by means of computational fluid dynamics, rheometry, and dimensional analysis 

      Busch, Alexander (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:95, Doctoral thesis, 2020)
      Cuttings transport modeling was analyzed with a major focus on three dimensional (3D) Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approaches including rheometry and to a lesser extent on one-dimensional modeling and dimensional ...
    • On solutions to equilibrium problems for systems of stiffened gases 

      Flåtten, Tore; Morin, Alexandre; Munkejord, Svend Tollak (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      We consider an isolated system of N immiscible fluids, each following a stiffened-gas equation of state. We consider the problem of calculating equilibrium states from the conserved fluid-mechanical properties, i.e., the ...
    • On Soot Sampling: Considerations when Sampling for TEM Imaging and Differential Mobility Spectrometer 

      Emberson, David; Rohani, Behzad; Wang, Liang; Sæterli, Ragnhild; Løvås, Terese (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Particulate matter (PM) has been sampled from a compression ignition engine using a differential mobility spectrometer (Cambustion DMS 500) and for imaging in a transmission electron microscope (TEM) with the aim of coupling ...
    • On the choice of closure complexity in anisotropic drag closures for filtered Two Fluid Models 

      Cloete, Jan Hendrik; Cloete, Schalk Willem Petrus; Radl, Stefan; Amini, Shahriar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Filtered Two Fluid Models (fTFMs) aim to enable accurate industrial-scale simulations of fluidized beds by means of closures accounting for the effects of bubbles and clusters. The present study aims to improve anisotropic ...
    • On The Development of a Counter-Flow Mixing Reactor for Fast Hydrothermal Liquefaction 

      Curakovs, Arturs; Tran, Khanh-Quang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      A laboratory-scale continuous tubular flow reactor system has been developed for fast HTL (hydrothermal liquefaction) of lignin, adopting the nozzle reactor concept with a counter-flow mixing design. The reactor is capable ...