Fibre Orientation Control Related to Papermaking

Author(s):  
A. Carlsson ◽  
F. Lundell ◽  
L. D. So¨derberg

The wall effect on the orientation of fibres suspended in a shear flow has been studied experimentally. A fibre suspension, driven by gravity down an inclined glass plate, constitutes the shear flow field. A CCD-camera was mounted underneath the flow in order to visualize the flow. The orientation of fibres in the plane perpendicular to the plate was determined, by using the concept of steerable filters. In a region close to the smooth plate surface the fibres oriented themselves perpendicular to the flow direction. This did not occur when the surface structure was modified with ridges.

Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Naser Hamedi ◽  
Lars-Göran Westerberg

In the present study, the flow of a fibre suspension in a channel containing a cylinder was numerically studied for a very low Reynolds number. Further, the model was validated against previous studies by observing the flexible fibres in the shear flow. The model was employed to simulate the rigid, semi-flexible, and fully flexible fibre particle in the flow past a single cylinder. Two different fibre lengths with various flexibilities were applied in the simulations, while the initial orientation angle to the flow direction was changed between 45° ≤ θ ≤ 75°. It was shown that the influence of the fibre orientation was more significant for the larger orientation angle. The results highlighted the influence of several factors affecting the fibre particle in the flow past the cylinder.


1992 ◽  
Vol 238 ◽  
pp. 277-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl A. Stover ◽  
Donald L. Koch ◽  
Claude Cohen

The orientations of fibres in a semi-dilute, index-of-refraction-matched suspension in a Newtonian fluid were observed in a cylindrical Couette device. Even at the highest concentration (nL3 = 45), the particles rotated around the vorticity axis, spending most of their time nearly aligned in the flow direction as they would do in a Jeffery orbit. The measured orbit-constant distributions were quite different from the dilute orbit-constant distributions measured by Anczurowski & Mason (1967b) and were described well by an anisotropic, weak rotary diffusion. The measured ϕ-distributions were found to be similar to Jeffery's solution. Here, ϕ is the meridian angle in the flow-gradient plane. The shear viscosities measured by Bibbo (1987) compared well with the values predicted by Shaqfeh & Fredrickson's theory (1990) using moments of the orientation distribution measured here.


2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Carlsson ◽  
Fredrik Lundell ◽  
L. Daniel Söderberg

The orientation of fibers suspended in a shear flow flowing over a solid wall has been studied experimentally. The possibility to control this orientation with physical surface modifications, ridges, has also been studied. The fiber suspension was driven by gravity down a slightly inclined glass plate and a charge-coupled device camera was used to capture images of the fibers in the flow. Image analysis based on the concept of steerable filters extracted the position and orientation of the fibers in the plane of the image. From these data, the velocity of the fibers was determined. When viewing the flow from the side, the velocity of the fibers at different heights was measured and found to agree with the theoretical solution for Newtonian flow down an inclined plate. Moving the camera so that the flow was filmed from below, the orientation, and velocity of fibers in the plane parallel to the solid surface was determined. The known relationship between the velocity and the wall normal position of the fibers made it possible to determine the height above the plate for each identified fiber. Far away from the wall, the fibers were aligned with the flow direction in both cases. In a region close to the smooth plate surface the fibers oriented themselves perpendicular to the flow direction. This change in orientation did not occur when the surface structure was modified with ridges.


1978 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Ackerberg ◽  
R. D. Patel ◽  
S. K. Gupta

The problem of heat transfer (or mass transfer at low transfer rates) to a strip of finite length in a uniform shear flow is considered. For small values of the Péclet number (based on wall shear rate and strip length), diffusion in the flow direction cannot be neglected as in the classical Leveque solution. The mathematical problem is solved by the method of matched asymptotic expansions and expressions for the local and overall dimensionless heat-transfer rate from the strip are found. Experimental data on wall mass-transfer rates in a tube at small Péclet numbers have been obtained by the well-known limiting-current method using potassium ferrocyanide and potassium ferricyanide in sodium hydroxide solution. The Schmidt number is large, so that a uniform shear flow can be assumed near the wall. Experimental results are compared with our theoretical predictions and the work of others, and the agreement is found to be excellent.


1965 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Saffman

It is shown that a sphere moving through a very viscous liquid with velocity V relative to a uniform simple shear, the translation velocity being parallel to the streamlines and measured relative to the streamline through the centre, experiences a lift force 81·2μVa2k½/v½ + smaller terms perpendicular to the flow direction, which acts to deflect the particle towards the streamlines moving in the direction opposite to V. Here, a denotes the radius of the sphere, κ the magnitude of the velocity gradient, and μ and v the viscosity and kinematic viscosity, respectively. The relevance of the result to the observations by Segrée & Silberberg (1962) of small spheres in Poiseuille flow is discussed briefly. Comments are also made about the problem of a sphere in a parabolic velocity profile and the functional dependence of the lift upon the parameters is obtained.


Author(s):  
Ruquan You ◽  
Haiwang Li ◽  
Zhi Tao ◽  
Kuan Wei

The mean flow field in a smooth rotating channel was measured by particle image velocimetry under the effect of buoyancy force. In the experiments, the Reynolds number, based on the channel hydraulic diameter (D) and the bulk mean velocity (Um), is 10000, and the rotation numbers are 0, 0.13, 0.26, 0.39, 0.52, respectively. The four channel walls are heated with Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) heater glass, making the density ratio (d.r.) about 0.1 and the maximum value of buoyancy number up to 0.27. The mean flow field was simulated on a 3D reconstruction at the position of 3.5<X/D<6.5, where X is along the mean flow direction. The effect of Coriolis force and buoyancy force on the mean flow was taken into consideration in the current work. The results show that the Coriolis force pushes the mean flow to the trailing side, making the asymmetry of the mean flow with that in the static conditions. On the leading surface, due to the effect of buoyancy force, the mean flow field changes considerably. Comparing with the case without buoyancy force, separated flow was captured by PIV on the leading side in the case with buoyancy force. More details of the flow field will be presented in this work.


2012 ◽  
Vol 226-228 ◽  
pp. 1829-1834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Yuan Tang ◽  
Jian Ming Chen ◽  
Hong Bin Ma ◽  
Guang Yu Tang

The flow field characteristics in U-typed bend has been extensively studied for transit time ultrasonic flowmeters designing, but for the flowmeter with three-Z-shaped round pipe there is still lack of corresponding research. This paper presents a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach for modeling of the three-Z-shaped ultrasonic flowmeter and studying of internal fluid field characteristics based on Reynolds stress model (RSM). The fluid velocity profile in the three ultrasound path is obtained using CFD and secondary flow in cross section also is analyzed. The simulation results show that the internal flow fields in the flowmeter are not fully developed turbulence with asymmetric axial velocity distribution and dramatic changes along the flow direction, and there are obvious secondary cross flows on theirs cross-sections. The CFD simulations provide useful insights into the flow field associated with ultrasonic flowmeters design.


2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masayuki Aoshima ◽  
Akira Satoh ◽  
Geoff N. Coverdale ◽  
Roy W. Chantrell

A ferrofluid is a suspension of ferromagnetic spherical particles in a base liquid (1), and is well known as a functional fluid which responds to an external magnetic field to give a large increase in the viscosity. Such a significant increase in the viscosity is due to the fact that chain-like clusters are formed owing to magnetostatic interactions between particles in an applied magnetic field. The microstructure formation offers a large resistance to a flow field that gives rise to a significant increase of the apparent viscosity (2).


1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.P. Sellers ◽  
H.A. Puryear ◽  
H.G. Clark

Fibrinogen reacted with thrombin at pH 6.3 in shear flow fields varying from 0 to 150 sec-1 gives insoluble fibrin at differing ratio, with a minimum rate near 50 sec-1. The relative rate of release of A and B peptides is also altered by the shear flow field. The release or B peptide is faster in stagnant solutions than in the higher shear flow.


2018 ◽  
Vol 246 ◽  
pp. 02021
Author(s):  
Jie Zhu ◽  
Jin Quan ◽  
Xiaohui Lei ◽  
Xia Yue ◽  
Yang Duan

This paper focuses on the analysis of the flow field of Danjiangkou Reservoir under the action of wind stress. Based on the analysis of the annual wind field data of Danjiangkou Reservoir, the three-dimensional hydrodynamic model of Danjiangkou Reservoir was established. The distribution of water flow field in the reservoir area under five different wind directions and two different wind speeds was studied. The simulation results were compared with the flow field without wind. The results show that when the wind speed in the reservoir area is 3.3m/s, the surface velocity and flow direction change less under the same wind conditions as the potential flow direction. Under the wind condition opposite to the potential flow direction, the reservoir area is locally generated. The small circulation and surface flow are more disordered; when the wind speed reaches 10.0m/s, under the same wind condition as the potential flow direction, the surface velocity of the reservoir area increases significantly. Under the wind condition opposite to the direction of the potential flow, a stable counterclockwise circulation is generated, and the wind direction dominates the surface layer. seriously affecting the flow field distribution in the reservoir area. The research results in this paper can provide support for the reservoir in the formulation of emergency water pollution emergency strategy and the formulation of real-time scheduling plan.


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