Fluid flow over and through a regular bundle of rigid fibres

2016 ◽  
Vol 792 ◽  
pp. 5-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe A. Zampogna ◽  
Alessandro Bottaro

The interaction between a fluid flow and a transversely isotropic porous medium is described. A homogenized model is used to treat the flow field in the porous region, and different interface conditions, needed to match solutions at the boundary between the pure fluid and the porous regions, are evaluated. Two problems in different flow regimes (laminar and turbulent) are considered to validate the system, which includes inertia in the leading-order equations for the permeability tensor through a Oseen approximation. The components of the permeability, which characterize microscopically the porous medium and determine the flow field at the macroscopic scale, are reasonably well estimated by the theory, both in the laminar and the turbulent case. This is demonstrated by comparing the model’s results to both experimental measurements and direct numerical simulations of the Navier–Stokes equations which resolve the flow also through the pores of the medium.

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Islam ◽  
Hamid Khan ◽  
Inayat Ali Shah ◽  
Gul Zaman

The flow between two large parallel plates approaching each other symmetrically in a porous medium is studied. The Navier-Stokes equations have been transformed into an ordinary nonlinear differential equation using a transformationψ(r,z)=r2F(z). Solution to the problem is obtained by using differential transform method (DTM) by varying different Newtonian fluid parameters and permeability of the porous medium. Result for the stream function is presented. Validity of the solutions is confirmed by evaluating the residual in each case, and the proposed scheme gives excellent and reliable results. The influence of different parameters on the flow has been discussed and presented through graphs.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Hotta

Abstract The minimum entropy theorem of the several fields is well known, but there is no clear review that it shows the possibility of minimum entropy theorem mainly rules the general viscous fluid flow field. In this article, I define appropriately total external energy function and is resolved by variational method, and shows that stationary condition always satisfies the continuity and general Navier-Stokes equations. So on that condition, the minimum entropy theorem could decide directly the general viscous fluid flow field.


1974 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Marple ◽  
B. Y. H. Liu ◽  
K. T. Whitby

The flow field in an inertial impactor was studied experimentally with a water model by means of a flow visualization technique. The influence of such parameters as Reynolds number and jet-to-plate distance on the flow field was determined. The Navier-Stokes equations describing the laminar flow field in the impactor were solved numerically by means of a finite difference relaxation method. The theoretical results were found to be in good agreement with the empirical observations made with the water model.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paran Pourteimouri ◽  
Kourosh Hejazi

An integrated two-dimensional vertical (2DV) model was developed to investigate wave interactions with permeable submerged breakwaters. The integrated model is capable of predicting the flow field in both surface water and porous media on the basis of the extended volume-averaged Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations (VARANS). The impact of porous medium was considered by the inclusion of the additional terms of drag and inertia forces into conventional Navier–Stokes equations. Finite volume method (FVM) in an arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) formulation was adopted for discretization of the governing equations. Projection method was utilized to solve the unsteady incompressible extended Navier–Stokes equations. The time-dependent volume and surface porosities were calculated at each time step using the fraction of a grid open to water and the total porosity of porous medium. The numerical model was first verified against analytical solutions of small amplitude progressive Stokes wave and solitary wave propagation in the absence of a bottom-mounted barrier. Comparisons showed pleasing agreements between the numerical predictions and analytical solutions. The model was then further validated by comparing the numerical model results with the experimental measurements of wave propagation over a permeable submerged breakwater reported in the literature. Good agreements were obtained for the free surface elevations at various spatial and temporal scales, velocity fields around and inside the obstacle, as well as the velocity profiles.


Author(s):  
Bakhtier Farouk ◽  
Murat K. Aktas

Formation of vortical flow structures in a rectangular enclosure due to acoustic streaming is investigated numerically. The oscillatory flow field in the enclosure is created by the vibration of a vertical side wall of the enclosure. The frequency of the wall vibration is chosen such that a standing wave forms in the enclosure. The interaction of this standing wave with the horizontal solid walls leads to the production of Rayleigh type acoustic streaming flow patterns in the enclosure. All four walls of the enclosure considered are thermally insulated. The fully compressible form of the Navier-Stokes equations is considered and an explicit time-marching algorithm is used to explicitly track the acoustic waves. Numerical solutions are obtained by employing a highly accurate flux corrected transport (FCT) algorithm for the convection terms. A time-splitting technique is used to couple the viscous and diffusion terms of the full Navier-Stokes equations. Non-uniform grid structure is employed in the computations. The simulation of the primary oscillatory flow and the secondary (steady) streaming flows in the enclosure is performed. Streaming flow patterns are obtained by time averaging the primary oscillatory flow velocity distributions. The effect of the amount of wall displacement on the formation of the oscillatory flow field and the streaming structures are studied. Computations indicate that the nonlinearity of the acoustic field increases with increasing amount of the vibration amplitude. The form and the strength of the secondary flow associated with the oscillatory flow field and viscous effects are found to be strongly correlated to the maximum displacement of the vibrating wall. Total number of acoustic streaming cells per wavelength is also determined by the strength and the level of the nonlinearity of the sound field in the resonator.


Author(s):  
Axel Hackbarth ◽  
Edwin Kreuzer ◽  
Thorben Schröder

In marine environments, sparse in-situ measurements can be used for the estimation of the fluid dynamic field. To make best use of a mobile sensor network in an environment whose dynamics can be described by the Navier-Stokes equations, we developed a framework for data assimilation with motion-constrained underwater vehicles, that takes the physical field properties into account while sampling. Our algorithm uses an ensemble Kalman filter that propagates hundreds of slightly varied coarse fluid dynamic simulations through time. Flow and scalar measurements from the mobile sensors are integrated into all ensemble members. We implemented a model predictive controller to calculate covariance minimizing paths from the estimated flow field and motion primitives of the vehicles, which are affected by a strong current. Thereby, we were able to indirectly track dynamically changing wall temperatures through measurements of flow field variables.


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