scholarly journals Semi analytical method for calculating Dean's vortex in Torus of elliptical cross section

2019 ◽  
Vol 286 ◽  
pp. 07004
Author(s):  
S. Ajgoun ◽  
J. Khalid Naciri ◽  
R. Khatyr

Based on the work of Dean (1927 and 1928) [1-2] and Cuming (1952) [3], the stationary flow of an incompressible Newtonian fluid through a curved pipe of uniform curvature and with elliptic cross section is studied. The Navier-Stokes equations are expressed in toroïdal coordinates system (s,r,θ). Following Dean’s approach, the governing equations for the fluid motion through a curved elliptical channel are solved by using an original semi analytical method for the resolution of a biharmonic equation. The main interest in this study is to test and validate in the case of an elliptical cross section the proposed semi-analytical method. The latter can then be used for other geometries for which explicit solutions are not available.

2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yitung Chen ◽  
Huajun Chen ◽  
Jinsuo Zhang ◽  
Hsuan-Tsung Hsieh

In the present study, the flow in a rotating helical pipe with an elliptical cross section is considered. The axes of the elliptical cross section are in arbitrary directions. Using the perturbation method, the Navier-Stokes equations in a rotating helical coordinate system are solved. The combined effects of rotation, torsion, and geometry on the characteristics of secondary flow and fluid particle trajectory are discussed. Some new and interesting conclusions are obtained, such as how the number of secondary flow cells and the secondary flow intensity depends on the ratio of the Coroilis force to the centrifugal force. The results show that the increase of torsion has the tendency to transfer the structure of secondary flow into a saddle flow, and that the incline angle α increases or decreases the secondary flow intensity depending on the resultant force between the Corilois force and centrifugal force.


1985 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 789-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. Borghesani

The Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid motion induced by a disk rotating inside a cylindrical cavity have been integrated for several values of the boundary layer thickness d. The equivalence of such a device to a rotating disk immersed in an infinite medium has been shown in the limit as d → 0. From that solution and taking into account edge effect corrections an equation for the viscous torque acting on the disk has been derived, which depends only on d. Moreover, these results justify the use of a rotating disk to perform accurate viscosity measurements.


1972 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. P. Jayasinghe ◽  
H. J. Leutheusser

This paper deals with elastic waves which may be generated in a fluid by the sudden movement of a flow boundary. In particular, an analysis of the classical piston, or signalling problem is presented for the special case of arbitrary velocity input into a stationary fluid contained in a circular, semi-infinite waveguide. The decay of the pulse, as well as the resulting flow development in the inlet region of the pipe are analyzed by means of an asymptotic expansion of the suitably nondimensionalized Navier-Stokes equations for a compressible, nonheat-conducting Newtonian fluid. The results differ significantly from those of the more conventional one-dimensional approach based on the so-called telegrapher’s equation of mathematical physics. The present theory realistically predicts the growth of a boundary layer both in time and position and, hence, it appears to represent the transient fluid motion in a manner which is physically more appealing.


2017 ◽  
Vol 826 ◽  
pp. 396-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Bouyges ◽  
F. Chedevergne ◽  
G. Casalis ◽  
J. Majdalani

This work introduces a similarity solution to the problem of a viscous, incompressible and rotational fluid in a right-cylindrical chamber with uniformly porous walls and a non-circular cross-section. The attendant idealization may be used to model the non-reactive internal flow field of a solid rocket motor with a star-shaped grain configuration. By mapping the radial domain to a circular pipe flow, the Navier–Stokes equations are converted to a fourth-order differential equation that is reminiscent of Berman’s classic expression. Then assuming a small radial deviation from a fixed chamber radius, asymptotic expansions of the three-component velocity and pressure fields are systematically pursued to the second order in the radial deviation amplitude. This enables us to derive a set of ordinary differential relations that can be readily solved for the mean flow variables. In the process of characterizing the ensuing flow motion, the axial, radial and tangential velocities are compared and shown to agree favourably with the simulation results of a finite-volume Navier–Stokes solver at different cross-flow Reynolds numbers, deviation amplitudes and circular wavenumbers.


Author(s):  
Guangding Wang ◽  
Huiqun Yuan ◽  
Hongyun Sun

In this paper, the stability of a flexible rotor partially filled with liquid is investigated. On the basis of the Navier-Stokes equations for the incompressible flow, a two-dimensional analytical model is developed for fluid motion. Applying the perturbation method, the linearized Navier-Stokes and continuity equations of fluid particles are obtained. Using the boundary conditions of fluid motion, the fluid forces exerted on the rotor are calculated. According to the established fluid-structure coupling model of the rotor system, the whirling frequency equation, which is applied to determine the stability of the system, is derived. The analysis results of the system stability are compared with the theoretical ones reported in the previous study. Good agreement is shown between the results of the present analysis and the literature results. The influences of the main parameters on the dynamic stability of the rotor system are discussed.


1998 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. 431-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOËL CHASKALOVIC

Mathematical models applied to tornadoes describe these kinds of flows as an axisymmetric fluid motion which is restricted for not developing a source or a sink near the vortex line. Here, we propose the genesis of a family of a source/sink line into a singular updraft which can modeled one of the step of the genesis of a tornado. This model consists of a three-parameter family of fluid motions, satisfying the steady and incompressible Navier–Stokes equations, which vanish at the ground. We establish the local existence and uniqueness for these fields, at the neighborhood of a nonrotating singular updraft.


1996 ◽  
Vol 451 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Marshall ◽  
P. Mocskos ◽  
F. Molina ◽  
S. Dengra

ABSTRACTRecent work demonstrates the relevant influence of convection during growth pattern formation in thin-layer electrochemical deposition. Convection is driven mainly by coulombic forces due to local charges at the tip of the aggregation and by buoyancy forces due to concentration gradients. Here we study through physical experiments and numerical modeling the regime under which coulombic forces are important. In the experimental measurements fluid motion near the growing tips of the deposit is visualized with neutrally buoyant latex spheres and its speed measured with videomicroscope tracking techniques and image processing software. The numerical modeling consists in the solution of the 2D dimensionless Nernst-Planck equations for ion concentrations, the Poisson equation for the electric field and the Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid flow, and a stochastic growth rule for ion deposition. A new set of dimensionless numbers governing electroconvection dominated flows is introduced. Preliminary experimental measurements and numerical results indicate that in the electroconvection dominated regime coulombic forces increase with the applied voltage, and their influence over growth pattern formation can be assessed with the magnitude of the dimensionless electric Froude number. It is suggested that when this number decreases the deposit morphology changes from fractal to dense branching.


2015 ◽  
Vol 777 ◽  
pp. 219-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse T. Ault ◽  
Kevin K. Chen ◽  
Howard A. Stone

Direct numerical simulations were used to investigate the downstream decay of fully developed flow in a $180^{\circ }$ curved pipe that exits into a straight outlet. The flow is studied for a range of Reynolds numbers and pipe-to-curvature radius ratios. Velocity, pressure and vorticity fields are calculated to visualize the downstream decay process. Transition ‘decay’ lengths are calculated using the norm of the velocity perturbation from the Hagen–Poiseuille velocity profile, the wall-averaged shear stress, the integral of the magnitude of the vorticity, and the maximum value of the $Q$-criterion on a cross-section. Transition lengths to the fully developed Poiseuille distribution are found to have a linear dependence on the Reynolds number with no noticeable dependence on the pipe-to-curvature radius ratio, despite the flow’s dependence on both parameters. This linear dependence of Reynolds number on the transition length is explained by linearizing the Navier–Stokes equations about the Poiseuille flow, using the form of the fully developed Dean flow as an initial condition, and using appropriate scaling arguments. We extend our results by comparing this flow recovery downstream of a curved pipe to the flow recovery in the downstream outlets of a T-junction flow. Specifically, we compare the transition lengths between these flows and document how the transition lengths depend on the Reynolds number.


2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 134-144
Author(s):  
Nguyen The Duc

The paper presents a numerical method to simulate two-phase turbulent cavitating flows in ducts of varying cross-section usually faced in engineering. The method is based on solution of two-phase Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations of two-phase mixture. The numerical method uses artificial compressibility algorithm extended to unsteady flows with dual-time technique. The discreted method employs an implicit, characteristic-based upwind differencing scheme in the curvilinear grid systems. Numerical simulation of an unsteady three-dimensional two-phase cavitating flow in a duct of varying cross-section with available experiment was performed. The unsteady important characteristics of the unsteady flow can be observed in results of numerical simulation. Comparison of predicted results with experimental data for time-averaged velocity and phase fraction are provided.


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