Can Bump Arrays Separate Particles From Turbulent Flows?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard F. Pease ◽  
Jason Serkowski ◽  
Timothy G. Veldman ◽  
Jonathan Willams ◽  
Xiao-Ying Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Turbulent Flows ◽  
Particle Separation ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Industrial Scale ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Scale Particle ◽  
Experimental Findings

Abstract In this paper, we evaluate the hypothesis that bump arrays can be used to separate particles from turbulent flows entering the array. Microfluidic bump arrays are known for separating particles by size from laminar inlet flows. However, turbulent inlet flows have not been explored but become important as microfluidic bump arrays are scaled up to mesofluidic bump arrays. We find experimentally that particle separation is indeed effective at higher Reynolds numbers. These experimental findings portend industrial scale particle separation due to the higher flow rates they facilitate.

Lattice Boltzmann for Turbulence Modeling

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sauro Succi
Keyword(s):  
Turbulent Flows ◽  
Lattice Boltzmann ◽  
Turbulence Modeling ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Full Resolution ◽  
To Come ◽  
Highly Turbulent Flows ◽  
Main Ideas

This chapter introduces the main ideas behind the application of LBE methods to the problem of turbulence modeling, namely the simulation of flows which contain scales of motion too small to be resolved on present-day and foreseeable future computers. Many real-life flows of practical interest exhibit Reynolds numbers far too high to be directly simulated in full resolution on present-day computers and arguably for many years to come. This raises the challenge of predicting the behavior of highly turbulent flows without directly simulating all scales of motion which take part to turbulence dynamics, but only those that fall within the computer resolution at hand.

A numerical study on combined baffles quick-separation device

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehsan Dehdarinejad ◽  
Morteza Bayareh ◽  
Mahmud Ashrafizaadeh
Keyword(s):  
Turbulent Flows ◽  
Separation Efficiency ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Turbulence Models ◽  
Complete Separation ◽  
Solid Particles ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Separation Device ◽  
Coupling Technique ◽  
Laminar And Turbulent Flows

Abstract The transfer of particles in laminar and turbulent flows has many applications in combustion systems, biological, environmental, nanotechnology. In the present study, a Combined Baffles Quick-Separation Device (CBQSD) is simulated numerically using the Eulerian-Lagrangian method and different turbulence models of RNG k-ε, k-ω, and RSM for 1–140 μm particles. A two-way coupling technique is employed to solve the particles’ flow. The effect of inlet flow velocity, the diameter of the splitter plane, and solid particles’ flow rate on the separation efficiency of the device is examined. The results demonstrate that the RSM turbulence model provides more appropriate results compared to RNG k-ε and k-ω models. Four thousand two hundred particles with the size distribution of 1–140 µm enter the device and 3820 particles are trapped and 380 particles leave the device. The efficiency for particles with a diameter greater than 28 µm is 100%. The complete separation of 22–28 μm particles occurs for flow rates of 10–23.5 g/s, respectively. The results reveal that the separation efficiency increases by increasing the inlet velocity, the device diameter, and the diameter of the particles.

Laminar Flow in a Cylindrical Container With a Rotating Cover

1982 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manlio Bertela` ◽  
Fabio Gori
Keyword(s):  
Laminar Flow ◽  
Aspect Ratio ◽  
Steady Flow ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Cylindrical Container ◽  
Cylindrical Chamber ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Pressure Fields

Unsteady and steady flow in a cylindrical chamber with a rotating cover has been studied for two Reynolds numbers and three aspect ratio values. The structure of the velocity and pressure fields in the apparatus is described. Primary and secondary volumetric flow rates and torque coefficients are also calculated for all six cases solved.

Measurement and Prediction of the Effects of Nonuniform Surface Roughness on Turbulent Flow Friction Coefficients

1988 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 380-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. P. Taylor ◽  
W. F. Scaggs ◽  
H. W. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Turbulent Flows ◽  
Rough Surfaces ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Base Diameter ◽  
Friction Coefficients ◽  
Friction Factors ◽  
Random Rough Surfaces ◽  
The Status ◽  
Uniform Array ◽  
Prediction Approach

The status of prediction methods for friction coefficients in turbulent flows over nonuniform or random rough surfaces is reviewed. Experimental data for friction factors in fully developed pipe flows with Reynolds numbers between 10,000 and 600,000 are presented for two nonuniform rough surfaces. One surface was roughened with a mixture of cones and hemispheres which had the same height and base diameter and were arranged in a uniform array. The other surface was roughened with a mixture of two sizes of cones and two sizes of hemispheres. These data are compared with predictions made using the previously published discrete element prediction approach of Taylor, Coleman, and Hodge. The agreement between the data and the predictions is excellent.

On the near-wall characteristics of acceleration in turbulence

2010 ◽  
Vol 659 ◽  
pp. 405-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. YEO ◽  
B.-G. KIM ◽  
C. LEE
Keyword(s):  
Turbulent Flows ◽  
Streamwise Vortex ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Viscous Sublayer ◽  
Centripetal Acceleration ◽  
Vortical Structures ◽  
Turbulent Channel Flows ◽  
Background Shear ◽  
Kolmogorov Constant ◽  
Near Wall

The behaviour of fluid-particle acceleration in near-wall turbulent flows is investigated in numerically simulated turbulent channel flows at low to moderate Reynolds numbers, Reτ = 180~600). The acceleration is decomposed into pressure-gradient (irrotational) and viscous contributions (solenoidal acceleration) and the statistics of each component are analysed. In near-wall turbulent flows, the probability density function of acceleration is strongly dependent on the distance from the wall. Unexpectedly, the intermittency of acceleration is strongest in the viscous sublayer, where the acceleration flatness factor of O(100) is observed. It is shown that the centripetal acceleration around coherent vortical structures is an important source of the acceleration intermittency. We found sheet-like structures of strong solenoidal accelerations near the wall, which are associated with the background shear modified by the interaction between a streamwise vortex and the wall. We found that the acceleration Kolmogorov constant is a linear function of y+ in the log layer. The Reynolds number dependence of the acceleration statistics is investigated.

scholarly journals Dynamics of viscoelastic pipe flow at low Reynolds numbers in the maximum drag reduction limit

2019 ◽  
Vol 874 ◽  
pp. 699-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose M. Lopez ◽  
George H. Choueiri ◽  
Björn Hof
Keyword(s):  
Drag Reduction ◽  
Turbulent Flows ◽  
Pipe Flow ◽  
Domain Size ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Weissenberg Number ◽  
Pipe Length ◽  
Low Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Maximum Drag Reduction ◽  
Low Reynolds

Polymer additives can substantially reduce the drag of turbulent flows and the upper limit, the so-called state of ‘maximum drag reduction’ (MDR), is to a good approximation independent of the type of polymer and solvent used. Until recently, the consensus was that, in this limit, flows are in a marginal state where only a minimal level of turbulence activity persists. Observations in direct numerical simulations at low Reynolds numbers ($Re$) using minimal sized channels appeared to support this view and reported long ‘hibernation’ periods where turbulence is marginalized. In simulations of pipe flow at $Re$ near transition we find that, indeed, with increasing Weissenberg number ($Wi$), turbulence expresses long periods of hibernation if the domain size is small. However, with increasing pipe length, the temporal hibernation continuously alters to spatio-temporal intermittency and here the flow consists of turbulent puffs surrounded by laminar flow. Moreover, upon an increase in $Wi$, the flow fully relaminarizes, in agreement with recent experiments. At even larger $Wi$, a different instability is encountered causing a drag increase towards MDR. Our findings hence link earlier minimal flow unit simulations with recent experiments and confirm that the addition of polymers initially suppresses Newtonian turbulence and leads to a reverse transition. The MDR state on the other hand results at these low$Re$ from a separate instability and the underlying dynamics corresponds to the recently proposed state of elasto-inertial turbulence.

scholarly journals A Note on Interior Pathways in the Meridional Overturning Circulation

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 643-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Pedlosky
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layers ◽  
Turbulent Flows ◽  
Intrinsic Property ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Meridional Overturning Circulation ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Source To Sink ◽  
Basin Geometry ◽  
Meridional Overturning ◽  
Source Sink

AbstractA simple oceanic model is presented for source–sink flow on the β plane to discuss the pathways from source to sink when transport boundary layers have large enough Reynolds numbers to be inertial in their dynamics. A representation of the flow as a Fofonoff gyre, suggested by prior work on inertial boundary layers and eddy-driven circulations in two-dimensional turbulent flows, indicates that even when the source and sink are aligned along the same western boundary the flow must intrude deep into the interior before exiting at the sink. The existence of interior pathways for the flow is thus an intrinsic property of an inertial circulation and is not dependent on particular geographical basin geometry.

Industrial Scale Mesofluidic Particle Separation

2022 ◽  
pp. 108795
Author(s):  
Leonard F. Pease ◽  
Nathan R. Philips ◽  
Jason Serkowski ◽  
Timothy G. Veldman ◽  
Michael J. Minette ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Particle Separation ◽  
Industrial Scale
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