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    A Practical Real Gas Model in CFD

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    Polynomial functions are generated to describe real gas properties in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Two-variable relative least square fitting is applied. In this way the real gas model can be generated fast and easily and the computational time requested is small and precision of the function can be easily adjusted. In this paper this kind of real-gas model is implemented for toluene and super sonic stator nozzle is calculated. The obtained results are compared to the measured ones

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    Variations on the Author

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    “Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis

    Numerical and Experimental Study of Supersonic Nozzle for Organic Rankine Cycle Turbine

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    Organic Rankine cycles utilise organic fluids characterised by high molecular complexity, while expansion typically occurs near the critical point and the saturation vapour line. This leads to non-ideal compressible fluid dynamic effects. In such instances, the behaviour of the fluid can diverge significantly from that of an ideal gas. The experimental research on non-ideal compressible fluid dynamics, which is crucial for comprehending flow behaviour, assessing system performance, and validating both theoretical and numerical models, remains limited. In this study, a one-dimensional nozzle model, along with two-dimensional inviscid steady-state computational fluid dynamics simulations of the expansion of R245fa through a converging-diverging nozzle, are employed to analyse the flow within the test section installed in the NextORC test facility, which has recently been commissioned at City, St George’s, University of London. These numerical investigations aim to enhance the understanding of flow behaviour through the test section and help to plan the subsequent stage of experiments. In both models, real gas properties derived from lookup tables generated with NIST REFPROP utilising Helmholtz energy equations of state are incorporated. The numerical results characterise the flow through the nozzle in terms of pressure and velocity distributions under both design and off-design working conditions, which are then compared with experimental findings obtained during the initial commissioning phase

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more sophisticated methods

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