Numerical Study on the Migration of Two Spheres in Upward Pipe Flow

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Liu ◽  
Haining Lu ◽  
Jianmin Yang ◽  
Xinliang Tian ◽  
Tao Peng ◽  
...  

Migration of particles in pipe flow is commonly seen in offshore engineering, such as vertical transport of ores in deep sea mining. As the basis of the investigation on fluid-particle two-phase flow, the interaction of two spheres in upward pipe flow is studied by direct numerical simulations in this paper. The pipe flow is set as Poiseuille flow; the Reynolds number is no more than 1250. The dynamic responses of the spheres and the flow pattern are analyzed at different flow velocity. When compared to the sedimentation of two spheres in quiescent flow, the trailing sphere in Poiseuille flow will never surpass the leading one in Poiseuille flow. As the flow velocity increases in the pipe, the spheres are easier to separate after collision. When the flow velocity exceeds a critical value, the spheres will never collide.

2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (9) ◽  
pp. 2412-2420 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZhaoQin Huang ◽  
Jun Yao ◽  
YueYing Wang ◽  
Ke Tao

Processes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuan Wang ◽  
Bo Hu ◽  
Yong Zhu ◽  
Xiuli Wang ◽  
Can Luo ◽  
...  

A self-priming centrifugal pump can be used in various areas such as agricultural irrigation, urban greening, and building water-supply. In order to simulate the gas-water two-phase flow in the self-priming process of a self-priming centrifugal pump, the unsteady numerical calculation of a typical self-priming centrifugal pump was performed using the ANSYS Computational Fluid X (ANSYS CFX) software. It was found that the whole self-priming process of a self-priming pump can be divided into three stages: the initial self-priming stage, the middle self-priming stage, and the final self-priming stage. Moreover, the self-priming time of the initial and final self-priming stages accounts for a small percentage of the whole self-priming process, while the middle self-priming stage is the main stage in the self-priming process and further determines the length of the self-priming time.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Ronghua Chen ◽  
Minghao Zhang ◽  
Kailun Guo ◽  
Dawei Zhao ◽  
Wenxi Tian ◽  
...  

Two-phase flow instability may occur in nuclear reactor systems, which is often accompanied by periodic fluctuation in fluid flow rate. In this study, bubble rising and coalescence characteristics under inlet flow pulsation condition are analyzed based on the MPS-MAFL method. To begin with, the single bubble rising behavior under flow pulsation condition was simulated. The simulation results show that the bubble shape and rising velocity fluctuate periodically as same as the inlet flow rate. Additionally, the bubble pairs’ coalescence behavior under flow pulsation condition was simulated and compared with static condition results. It is found that the coalescence time of bubble pairs slightly increased under the pulsation condition, and then the bubbles will continue to pulsate with almost the same period as the inlet flow rate after coalescence. In view of these facts, this study could offer theory support and method basis to a better understanding of the two-phase flow configuration under flow pulsation condition.


2020 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 137-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changgeng Gui ◽  
Fan Geng ◽  
Junhua Tang ◽  
Hongwei Niu ◽  
Fubao Zhou ◽  
...  

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