Modeling the f and j Characteristics of the Offset Strip Fin Array

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. S. Muzychka ◽  
M. M. Yovanovich

Abstract New models for predicting the thermal-hydraulic characteristics of offset strip fin arrays are developed. These models are developed by combining the asymptotic behaviour for the laminar and turbulent wake regions. Models in these two regions are developed by considering the offset strip fin as an array of short ducts or channels. The proposed models are compared with published experimental data for nineteen configurations of the rectangular offset strip fin. Model predictions are within ± 20 percent for 96 percent of friction factor data and 82 percent for Colburn j factor data. Extension of the new models for offset strip fins having non-rectangular subchannels is also discussed.

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. S. Muzychka ◽  
M. M. Yovanovich

Abstract Analytic models for predicting the thermal-hydraulic characteristics for transverse flow through an offset strip fin array are developed. These models are developed by combining the creeping or low flow asymptotic behaviour with laminar and turbulent boundary layer wake models. Expressions for each of these characteristic regions are developed using fundamental solutions of fluid dynamics and heat transfer. The proposed models are compared with new experimental data for ten offset strip fin configurations. Model predictions are within ± 20 percent for 92 percent of friction factor data and 71 percent for Colburn j factor data.


1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Yuan ◽  
C. Sarica ◽  
S. Miska ◽  
J. P. Brill

A new test facility was designed and constructed to simulate flow in a horizontal well with a single perforation. A total of 635 tests were conducted with Reynolds numbers ranging from 5000 to 60,000 with influx to main rate ratios ranging from 1/5 to 1/100, and also for the no-influx case. The flow behavior in a single-perforation new friction expression for a single-perforation horizontal well was developed. A new simple correlation for the horizontal well friction factor was developed by applying experimental data to the general friction factor expression. The new friction factor correlation and experimental data were compared with the Asheim et al. (1992) data and model, and showed that the new correlation performed better than the Asheim et al. (1992) model.


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahador Abolpour ◽  
M. Mehdi Afsahi ◽  
Ataallah Soltani Goharrizi

Abstract In this study, reduction of in-flight fine particles of magnetite ore concentrate by methane at a constant heat flux has been investigated both experimentally and numerically. A 3D turbulent mathematical model was developed to simulate the dynamic motion of these particles in a methane content reactor and experiments were conducted to evaluate the model. The kinetics of the reaction were obtained using an optimizing method as: [-Ln(1-X)]1/2.91 = 1.02 × 10−2dP−2.07CCH40.16exp(−1.78 × 105/RT)t. The model predictions were compared with the experimental data and the data had an excellent agreement.


2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (04) ◽  
pp. 1650025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. J. Jiang ◽  
J. Wang ◽  
Y. Huang

The charged particles produced in nucleus–nucleus collisions come from leading particles and those frozen out from the hot and dense matter created in collisions. The leading particles are conventionally supposed having Gaussian rapidity distributions normalized to the number of participants. The hot and dense matter is assumed to expand according to the unified hydrodynamics, a hydro model which unifies the features of Landau and Hwa–Bjorken model, and freeze out into charged particles from a time-like hypersurface with a proper time of [Formula: see text]. The rapidity distribution of this part of charged particles can be derived analytically. The combined contribution from both leading particles and unified hydrodynamics is then compared against the experimental data performed by BNL-RHIC-PHOBOS Collaboration in different centrality Cu–Cu collisions at [Formula: see text] and 62.4[Formula: see text]GeV, respectively. The model predictions are consistent with experimental measurements.


2010 ◽  
Vol 129-131 ◽  
pp. 1244-1247
Author(s):  
Hai Hang Xu ◽  
Lei Zhong

New shear and extensional viscosity models based on Fredrickson kinetic equation coupled with Dewitt constitutive equation were established to predict viscosities of polymer melts. The experimental data of 125°C LDPE and LDPE filled with 35% glass beads reported from references were compared with the model predictions. The predictions showed good agreement with the measurements. The models are simple and easy to use. Because they contain no structure parameter, they are capable to describe the viscosities of pure polymer and polymer composites.


Author(s):  
Aniruddha Choudhary ◽  
Ian T. Voyles ◽  
Christopher J. Roy ◽  
William L. Oberkampf ◽  
Mayuresh Patil

Our approach to the Sandia Verification and Validation Challenge Problem is to use probability bounds analysis (PBA) based on probabilistic representation for aleatory uncertainties and interval representation for (most) epistemic uncertainties. The nondeterministic model predictions thus take the form of p-boxes, or bounding cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) that contain all possible families of CDFs that could exist within the uncertainty bounds. The scarcity of experimental data provides little support for treatment of all uncertain inputs as purely aleatory uncertainties and also precludes significant calibration of the models. We instead seek to estimate the model form uncertainty at conditions where the experimental data are available, then extrapolate this uncertainty to conditions where no data exist. The modified area validation metric (MAVM) is employed to estimate the model form uncertainty which is important because the model involves significant simplifications (both geometric and physical nature) of the true system. The results of verification and validation processes are treated as additional interval-based uncertainties applied to the nondeterministic model predictions based on which the failure prediction is made. Based on the method employed, we estimate the probability of failure to be as large as 0.0034, concluding that the tanks are unsafe.


2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Kelly ◽  
R. D. Leek ◽  
H. M. Byrne ◽  
S. M. Cox ◽  
A. L. Harris ◽  
...  

In this paper a mathematical model that describes macrophage infiltration into avascular tumours is presented. The qualitative accuracy of the model is assessed by comparing numerical results with independent experimental data that describe the infiltration of macrophages into two types of spheroids: chemoattractant-producing (hepa-1) and chemoattractant-deficient (or C4) spheroids. A combination of analytical and numerical techniques are used to show how the infiltration pattern depends on the motility mechanisms involved (i.e. random motion and chemotaxis) and to explain the observed differences in macrophage infiltration into the hepa-1 and C4 spheroids. Model predictions are generated to show how the spheroid's size and spatial structure and the ability of its constituent cells influence macrophage infiltration. For example, chemoattractant-producing spheroids are shown to recruit larger numbers of macrophages than chemoattractant-deficient spheroids of the same size and spatial structure. The biological implications of these results are also discussed briefly.


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