scholarly journals Improved ISPH method for natural convection from heated T-open pipe of Al2O3-water nanofluid in a cavity: Buongiorno’s two-phase model

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-148
Author(s):  
Abdelraheem Aly ◽  
Sameh Ahmed

The unsteady natural convection of Al2O3-water nanofluid form heated open T-pipe inside a cavity has been investigated by ISPH method using non-homogenous two-phase Buongiorno's model. Different lengths and heights of T-pipe shape are considered. The side walls of the cavity are kept at cool temperature Tc and the horizontal walls are thermally insulated. The Lagrangian description of the controlling governing equations is discretized and solved using improved ISPH method. In this study, ISPH method is improved using kernel renormalization function for boundary treatment plus modification in the source term of pressure Poisson equation (PPE). The source term of PPE contains the velocity divergence plus density invariance multiply by relaxation coefficient. The calculations are performed for variable lengths of T-open pipe (0.2 ? Lb ? 0.6variable widths of T-open pipe (0.02 ?Wb?0.16), (0.02? Wt? 0.16) and variable concentration of nanoparticles volume fraction (1% ?.?avg ? 10). The obtained results showed that the maximum values of the stream function are reduced by 80.8% when ?avg is increased from 1% to 10%. Additionally, as lengths and widths of the T-pipe are raised, the average Nusselt numbers at the vertical walls are enhanced.

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 4629-4648
Author(s):  
Zehba A.S. Raizah

Purpose The purpose of this study is to apply the incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics method for simulating the natural convection flow inside a cavity including cross blades or circular cylinder cylinder. Design/methodology/approach The base fluid is water and copper-water nanofluid is treated as a working fluid. The left and rights walls are maintained at a cool temperature, the horizontal cavity walls are isolated and the inner shape was heated. The physical parameters are the length of the blades L_Blade, the number of cross blades, circular cylinder radius L_R, Rayleigh number Ra and the nanoparticles volume fraction. Findings The results reveal that the lengths of the cross blade, number of the blades and radius of the circular cylinder is working as an enhancement factor for heat transfer and fluid flows inside a cavity. Adding nanoparticles augments heat transfer and reduces the fluid flow intensity inside a cavity. The best case for buoyancy-driven flow was obtained when the inner shape is the circular cylinder at a higher Rayleigh number. Originality/value This work uses a distinctive numerical method to study the natural convection heat from cross blades inside a cavity filled with nanofluid. It provides a new analysis of this issue and presented good results.


2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 3607-3634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zehba A.S. Raizah ◽  
Abdelraheem M. Aly

Purpose This paper aims to adopt incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (ISPH) method for studying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) double-diffusive natural convection from an inner open pipe in a cavity filled with a nanofluid. Design/methodology/approach The Lagrangian description of the governing equations was solved using the current ISPH method. The effects of two pipe shapes as a straight pipe and V-pipe, length of the pipe LPipe (0.2-0.8), length of V-pipe LV (0.04-0.32), Hartmann parameter Ha (40-120), solid volume fraction ϕ (0-0.1) and Lewis number Le (1-50) on the heat and mass transfer of nanofluid have been investigated. Findings The results demonstrate that the average Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are increased by increment on the straight-pipe length, V-pipe length, Hartmann parameter, solid volume fraction and Lewis number. In addition, the variation on the open pipe shapes gives a suitable choice for enhancement heat and mass transfer inside the cavity. The control parameters of the open pipes can enhance the heat and mass transfer inside a cavity. In addition, the variation on the open pipe shapes gives a suitable choice for enhancement heat and mass transfer inside the cavity. Originality/value ISPH method is developed to study the MHD double-diffusive natural convection from the novel shapes of the inner heated open pipes inside a cavity including straight-pipe and V-pipe shapes.


2020 ◽  
pp. 334-334
Author(s):  
Hadi Pourziaei Araban ◽  
Javad Alinejad ◽  
Ganji Domiri

The innovation of this paper is to simulate two-phase nanofluid natural convection inside the transformable enclosure to control the heat transfer rate under different heat flux. Heat transfer of a two-phase CuO-water nanofluid in an enclosure under different heat flux has many industrial applications including energy storage systems, thermal control of electronic devices and cooling of radioactive waste containers. The Lattice Boltzmann Method based on the D2Q9 method has been utilized for modeling velocity and temperature fields. Streamlines, isotherms and nanoparticle volume fraction, have been investigated for control the heat transfer rate for several cases. The purpose of this feasibility study is to achieve uniform temperature profiles and Tmax < 50?C under different heat flux. Natural convection heat transfer in the rectangular and parallelogram enclosures with positive and negative angular adiabatic walls were simulated. The average wall temperature under heat flux boundary condition has been studied to predict optimal levels of effective factors to control the maximum wall temperature. The results illustrated parallelogram enclosures with positive angle of case 1 and case 3 and 4 with rectangular enclosures were best cases for considering physical conditions. Average of temperature for these cases were 37.9, 29.7 and 38.2, respectively.


Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ammar Alsabery ◽  
Tahar Tayebi ◽  
Ali Chamkha ◽  
Ishak Hashim

This study investigates numerically the effect of the two-phase nanofluid model due to natural convection within a square cavity along with the existence of a conducting solid block, and a corner heater using the finite difference method (FDM). The top horizontal wall is retained at a cold temperature that is fixed as constant, while the isothermal heater is positioned at the bottom left corner within the square cavity. The remaining fractions of the right vertical wall and the heated wall are set to be adiabatic. The water-based nanofluid, together with Al 2 O 3 nanoparticles, have been evaluated by determining the following parameters: the volume fraction of nanoparticles, thickness of solid block, Rayleigh number, and the solid block thermal conductivity. As a result, the comparative evaluation with outputs reported in publications and prior experimental works has pointed out exceptional agreement with the findings retrieved in this study. The experimental outcomes are graphically illustrated in terms of the average and local Nusselt numbers, isotherms, distribution of nanoparticles, and the streamlines. The findings indicate that an elevation of the thermal conductivity in blocks with a similar size successfully increases the transfer rate of heat, wherein the dominance of conduction has been observed.


1983 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
pp. 2232-2248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivo Roušar ◽  
Michal Provazník ◽  
Pavel Stuhl

In electrolysers with recirculation, where a gas is evolved, the pumping of electrolyte from a lower to a higher level can be effected by natural convection due to the difference between the densities of the inlet electrolyte and the gaseous emulsion at the outlet. An accurate balance equation for calculation of the rate of flow of the pumped liquid is derived. An equation for the calculation of the mean volume fraction of bubbles in the space between the electrodes is proposed and verified experimentally on a pilot electrolyser. Two examples of industrial applications are presented.


Fluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Yuria Okagaki ◽  
Taisuke Yonomoto ◽  
Masahiro Ishigaki ◽  
Yoshiyasu Hirose

Many thermohydraulic issues about the safety of light water reactors are related to complicated two-phase flow phenomena. In these phenomena, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis using the volume of fluid (VOF) method causes numerical diffusion generated by the first-order upwind scheme used in the convection term of the volume fraction equation. Thus, in this study, we focused on an interface compression (IC) method for such a VOF approach; this technique prevents numerical diffusion issues and maintains boundedness and conservation with negative diffusion. First, on a sufficiently high mesh resolution and without the IC method, the validation process was considered by comparing the amplitude growth of the interfacial wave between a two-dimensional gas sheet and a quiescent liquid using the linear theory. The disturbance growth rates were consistent with the linear theory, and the validation process was considered appropriate. Then, this validation process confirmed the effects of the IC method on numerical diffusion, and we derived the optimum value of the IC coefficient, which is the parameter that controls the numerical diffusion.


Author(s):  
Abdelraheem M. Aly

Purpose This paper aims to adopt incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics (ISPH) method to simulate MHD double-diffusive natural convection in a cavity containing an oscillating pipe and filled with nanofluid. Design/methodology/approach The Lagrangian description of the governing partial differential equations are solved numerically using improved ISPH method. The inner oscillating pipe is divided into two different pipes as an open and a closed pipe. The sidewalls of the cavity are cooled with a lower concentration C_c and the horizontal walls are adiabatic. The inner pipe is heated with higher concentration C_h. The analysis has been conducted for the two different cases of inner oscillating pipes under the effects of wide range of governing parameters. Findings It is found that a suitable oscillating pipe makes a well convective transport inside a cavity. Presence of the oscillating pipe has effects on the heat and mass transfer and fluid intensity inside a cavity. Hartman parameter suppresses the velocity and weakens the maximum values of the stream function. An increase on Hartman, Lewis and solid volume fraction parameters leads to an increase on average Nusselt number on an oscillating pipe and left cavity wall. Average Sherwood number on an oscillating pipe and left cavity wall decreases as Hartman parameter increases. Originality/value The main objective of this work is to study the MHD double-diffusive natural convection of a nanofluid in a square cavity containing an oscillating pipe using improved ISPH method.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1543
Author(s):  
Luka Sturtewagen ◽  
Erik van der Linden

The ability to separate enzymes, nucleic acids, cells, and viruses is an important asset in life sciences. This can be realised by using their spontaneous asymmetric partitioning over two macromolecular aqueous phases in equilibrium with one another. Such phases can already form while mixing two different types of macromolecules in water. We investigate the effect of polydispersity of the macromolecules on the two-phase formation. We study theoretically the phase behavior of a model polydisperse system: an asymmetric binary mixture of hard spheres, of which the smaller component is monodisperse and the larger component is polydisperse. The interactions are modelled in terms of the second virial coefficient and are assumed to be additive hard sphere interactions. The polydisperse component is subdivided into sub-components and has an average size ten times the size of the monodisperse component. We calculate the theoretical liquid–liquid phase separation boundary (the binodal), the critical point, and the spinodal. We vary the distribution of the polydisperse component in terms of skewness, modality, polydispersity, and number of sub-components. We compare the phase behavior of the polydisperse mixtures with their concomittant monodisperse mixtures. We find that the largest species in the larger (polydisperse) component causes the largest shift in the position of the phase boundary, critical point, and spinodal compared to the binary monodisperse binary mixtures. The polydisperse component also shows fractionation. The smaller species of the polydisperse component favor the phase enriched in the smaller component. This phase also has a higher-volume fraction compared to the monodisperse mixture.


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