Filter-Based Unsteady RANS Computations for Single-Phase and Cavitating Flows

Volume 3 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiongyang Wu ◽  
Wei Shyy ◽  
Stein T. Johansen

The widely used Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approach, such as the k-ε two-equation model, has been found to over-predict the eddy viscosity and can dampen out the time dependent fluid dynamics in both single- and two-phase flows. To improve the predictive capability of this type of engineering turbulence closures, a consistent method is offered to bridge the gap between DNS, LES and RANS models. Based on the filter size, conditional averaging is adopted for the Navier-Stokes equation to introduce one more parameter into the definition of the eddy viscosity. Both time-dependent single-phase and cavitating flows are simulated by a pressure-based method and finite volume approach in the framework of the Favre-averaged equations coupled with the new turbulence model. The impact of the filter-based concept, including the filter size and grid dependencies, is investigated using the standard k-ε model and with the available experimental information.

Author(s):  
Xiaohui Lin ◽  
Chibin Zhang ◽  
Changbao Wang ◽  
Wenquan Chu ◽  
Zhaomin Wang

The blood in microvascular is seemed as a two-phase flow system composed of plasma and red blood cells (RBCs). Based on hydrodynamic continuity equation, Navier-Stokes equation, Fokker-Planck equation, generalized Reynolds equation and elasticity equation, a two-phase flow transport model of blood in elastic microvascular is proposed. The continuous medium assumption of RBCs is abandoned. The impact of the elastic deformation of the vessel wall, the interaction effect between RBCs, the Brownian motion effect of RBCs and the viscous resistance effect between RBCs and plasma on blood transport are considered. Model does not introduce any phenolmeno-logical parameter, compared with the previous phenolmeno-logical model, this model is more comprehensive in theory. The results show that, the plasma velocity distribution is cork-shaped, which is apparently different with the parabolic shape of the single-phase flow model. The reason of taper angle phenomenon and RBCs “Center focus” phenomenon are also analyzed. When the blood vessel radius is in the order of microns, blood apparent viscosity’s Fahraeus-Lindqvist effect and inverse Fahraeus-Lindqvist effect will occur, the maximum of wall shear stress will appear in the minimum of diameter, the variations of blood apparent viscosity with consider of RBCs volume fraction and shear rate calculated by the model are in good agreement with the experimental values.


1998 ◽  
Vol 09 (08) ◽  
pp. 1383-1391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Chen ◽  
Shulong Teng ◽  
Takauki Shukuwa ◽  
Hirotada Ohashi

A model with a volumetric stress tensor added to the Navier–Stokes Equation is used to study two-phase fluid flows. The implementation of such an interface model into the lattice-Boltzmann equation is derived from the continuous Boltzmann BGK equation with an external force term, by using the discrete coordinate method. Numerical simulations are carried out for phase separation and "dam breaking" phenomena.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Hyun Jun Jeong ◽  
Wook Ryol Hwang ◽  
Chongyoup Kim

We present two-dimensional numerical simulations of the impact and spreading of a droplet containing a number of small particles on a flat solid surface, just after hitting the solid surface, to understand particle effects on spreading dynamics of a particle-laden droplet for the application to the industrial inkjet printing process. The Navier-Stokes equation is solved by a finite-element-based computational scheme that employs the level-set method for the accurate interface description between the drop fluid and air and a fictitious domain method for suspended particles to account for full hydrodynamic interaction. Focusing on the particle effect on droplet spreading and recoil behaviors, we report that suspended particles suppress the droplet oscillation and deformation, by investigating the drop deformations for various Reynolds numbers. This suppressed oscillatory behavior of the particulate droplet has been interpreted with the enhanced energy dissipation due to the presence of particles.


Author(s):  
Rik Wemmenhove ◽  
Marc Lefranc

The industrial problem of a jacket platform subjected to Wave-In-Deck load due to an extreme wave is studied numerically by a CFD technique. In particular, details of local flow and slamming-like hydrodynamic impact on structural members are studied. The applied CFD code ComFLOW is a Navier-Stokes equation solver with an improved Volume of Fluid (iVOF) method employed to displace and re-construct fluids free surface. Two different fluid models, single-phase (liquid+void) and two-phase (liquid+compressible gas) can be used, the latter model being capable of simulating gas entrapped in liquid. Local air pockets are formed in corners and nooks of the structure as the incoming wave front approaches. The study presents a comparison of hydrodynamic impact pressures found with and without the air entrapment. Numerical realisation of the two-phase model is considerably more expensive computationally and the study shows possibility and various aspects of its simulation. Accuracy of the numerical solution and relevance of the air pocket formation on the impact pressures and therefore on the exerted structural load are discussed.


2005 ◽  
Vol 475-479 ◽  
pp. 3211-3214
Author(s):  
San Bing Ren ◽  
Jun Fei Fan ◽  
Zong Ze Huang ◽  
Yi Sheng Chen ◽  
You Duo He

In the present paper, applied the experiential correlation, the gas holdup and distribution of two phase zone which formed by argon blown were determined. The flow variables of molten steel and turbulence parameters in the Ladle Furnace were estimated utilizing the results of frontal calculation and through numerically solution momentum Navier-Stokes equation in conjunction with k-εturbulence model. Several different spray styles including blowing through single hole, double holes, top lance were simulated and compared in this project.


Author(s):  
Zhaoyuan Wang ◽  
Albert Y. Tong

A surface tension implementation algorithm for two-phase incompressible interfacial flows is presented in this study. The surface tension effect is treated as a jump condition at the interface and incorporated into the Navier-Stokes equation via a capillary pressure gradient. The interface is tracked by a coupled level set and volume-of-fluid (CLSVOF) method based on the finite-volume formulation on a fixed Eulerian grid. It has been shown in a stationary benchmark test the spurious currents are greatly reduced and the sharp pressure jump across the interface is well preserved. Numerical instabilities caused by the sharp treatment on a fixed grid are avoided. Several dynamic tests are performed to further validate the accuracy and versatility of the present method, the results of which are in good agreement with data reported in the literature.


2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (10n11) ◽  
pp. 1714-1723 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. VIGNALE

I review recent advances in understanding the physical character of the exchange-correlation (xc) potential in time-dependent density functional theory. I show that in an electron gas of slowly varying density the dynamical part of the xc potential is an extremely nonlocal functional of the density. This difficulty can be circumvented by introducing an xc vector potential that is a function of the local current density. The form of this vector potential is entirely specified by symmetry. Its physical effects are analogous to those of the viscous force in the Navier-Stokes equation of classical hydrodynamics. Recent applications of the xc vector potential to the calculation of infrared absorption linewidths in quantum wells are described.


2013 ◽  
Vol 465-466 ◽  
pp. 552-556
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ammar Nik Mutasim ◽  
Nurul Suraya Azahari ◽  
Ahmad Alif Ahmad Adam

Energy is one of the most important sources in the world especially for developing countries. The subject study is conducted to predict the behaviour of particle due to errosion from the river through the achimedes screw runner and predict the impact of particle toward blade surface. For this reason, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods are used. The three-dimensional flow of fluid is numerically analyzed using the Navier-Stokes equation with standard k-ε turbulence model. The reinverse design of archimedes screw blade was refered with the previous researcher. Flow prediction with numerical results such as velocity streamlines, flow pattern and pressure contour for flow of water entering the blade are discussed. This study shows that the prediction of particle impact occurs mostly on the entering surface blade and along the leading edge of the screw runner. Any modification on the design of the screw runner blade can be analyze for further study.


1998 ◽  
Vol 09 (08) ◽  
pp. 1393-1404 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Holdych ◽  
D. Rovas ◽  
J. G. Georgiadis ◽  
R. O. Buckius

Lattice-Boltzmann (LB) models provide a systematic formulation of effective-field computational approaches to the calculation of multiphase flow by replacing the mathematical surface of separation between the vapor and liquid with a thin transition region, across which all magnitudes change continuously. Many existing multiphase models of this sort do not satisfy the rigorous hydrodynamic constitutive laws. Here, we extend the two-dimensional, seven-speed Swift et al. LB model1 to rectangular grids (nine speeds) by using symbolic manipulation (MathematicaTM) and compare the LB model predictions with benchmark problems, in order to evaluate its merits. Particular emphasis is placed on the stress tensor formulation. Comparison with the two-phase analogue of the Couette flow and with a flow involving shear and advection of a droplet surrounded by its vapor reveals that additional terms have to be introduced in the definition of the stress tensor in order to satisfy the Navier–Stokes equation in regions of high density gradients. The use of Mathematica obviates many of the difficulties with the calculations "by-hand," allowing at the same time more flexibility to the computational analyst to experiment with geometrical and physical parameters of the formulation.


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