scholarly journals Mixing of Particles in Micromixers under Different Angles and Velocities of the Incoming Water

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (11) ◽  
pp. 577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelos Karvelas ◽  
Christos Liosis ◽  
Theodoros Karakasidis ◽  
Ioannis Sarris

A possible solution for water purification from heavy metals is to capture them by using nanoparticles in microfluidic ducts. In this technique, heavy metal capture is achieved by effectively mixing two streams, a nanoparticle solution and the contaminated water. In the present work, particles and water mixing is numerically studied for various inlet velocity ratios and inflow angles of the two streams. The Navier-Stokes equations are solved for the water flow while the discrete motion of particles is evaluated by a Lagrangian method. Results showed that as the velocity ratio between the inlet streams increases, by increasing the particles solution flow, the mixing of particles with the contaminated water is increased. Thus, nanoparticles are more uniformly distributed in the duct. On the other hand, angle increase between the inflow streams ducts is found to be less significant.

1980 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob H. Masliyah

Calculations of the flow field under laminar conditions in a helical semicircular duct have been made by numerically solving the Navier–Stokes equations. With the flat wall of the duct being the outer wall, the solution of the momentum equations for Dean numbers below 105 gave, for the secondary flow, twin counter-rotating vortices of Taylor–Goertler type. However, above a Dean number of Dn = 105, two solutions were possible. One solution was similar to that obtained for Dn < 105. The other solution revealed four vortices for the secondary flow. For Dn > 105, convergence to either flow pattern depended on the initial guess used in the numerical solution. Flow visualization confirmed the possibility of the presence of both types of secondary flow patterns.


1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 225-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Braun ◽  
M. Dzodzo

The flow in a hydrostatic pocket is numerically simulated using a dimensionless formulation of the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations written in primitive variables, for a body fitted coordinates system, and applied through a collocated grid. In essence, we continue the work of Braun et al. 1993a, 1993b] and extend it to the study of the effects of the pocket geometric format on the flow pattern and pressure distribution. The model includes the coupling between the pocket flow and a finite length feedline flow, on one hand, and the pocket and its adjacent lands on the other hand. In this context we shall present, on a comparative basis, the flow and the pressure patterns at the runner surface for square, ramped-Rayleigh step, and arc of circle pockets. Geometrically all pockets have the same footprint, same lands length, and same capillary feedline. The numerical simulation uses the Reynolds number based on the lid(runner) velocity and the inlet jet strengthFas the dynamic similarity parameters. The study aims at establishing criteria for the optimization of the pocket geometry in the larger context of the performance of a hydrostatic bearing.


Author(s):  
Toshiharu Muramatsu

Thermohydraulic analyses for a fundamental water experiment simulating thermal striping phenomena at T-junction piping systems were carried out using a quasi-direct numerical simulation code DINUS-3, which is represented by instantaneous Navier-Stokes equations and deals with a modified third-order upwind scheme for convection terms. Calculated results were compared with experimental results on the flow patterns in the downstream region of the systems, the arched vortex structures under a deflecting jet condition, the generation frequency of the arched vortex, etc. in the various conditions; i.e., diameter ratio α, flow velocity ratio β and Reynolds number Re. From the comparisons, it was confirmed that (1) the DINUS-3 code is applicable to the flow pattern classifications in the downstream region of the T-junction piping systems, (2) the arched vortex characteristics with lower frequency components and their generation possibilities can be estimated numerically by the DINUS-3 code, and (3) special attentions should be paid to the arched vortex generations with lower frequency components of fluid temperature fluctuations in the design of T-junction systems from the viewpoints of the avoidances for the thermal striping.


2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Filipe S. Pereira ◽  
Luís Eça ◽  
Guilherme Vaz

The importance of the turbulence closure to the modeling accuracy of the partially-averaged Navier–Stokes equations (PANS) is investigated in prediction of the flow around a circular cylinder at Reynolds number of 3900. A series of PANS calculations at various degrees of physical resolution is conducted using three Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations (RANS)-based closures: the standard, shear-stress transport (SST), and turbulent/nonturbulent (TNT) k–ω models. The latter is proposed in this work. The results illustrate the dependence of PANS on the closure. At coarse physical resolutions, a narrower range of scales is resolved so that the influence of the closure on the simulations accuracy increases significantly. Among all closures, PANS–TNT achieves the lowest comparison errors. The reduced sensitivity of this closure to freestream turbulence quantities and the absence of auxiliary functions from its governing equations are certainly contributing to this result. It is demonstrated that the use of partial turbulence quantities in such auxiliary functions calibrated for total turbulent (RANS) quantities affects their behavior. On the other hand, the successive increase of physical resolution reduces the relevance of the closure, causing the convergence of the three models toward the same solution. This outcome is achieved once the physical resolution and closure guarantee the precise replication of the spatial development of the key coherent structures of the flow.


1980 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Habib ◽  
J. H. Whitelaw

Measured values of the velocity characteristics of turbulent, confined, coaxial-jet flows have been obtained, without swirl, for ratios of maximum annulus to pipe velocities of 1.0 and 3.0 and with a swirl number of 0.23 for a velocity ratio of 3.0. They were obtained by a combination of pressure probes, hot-wire and laser-Doppler anemometry. The results are compared with calculations, based on the solution of finite-difference forms of the steady, Navier-Stokes equations, and an effective-viscosity hypothesis. The measurements allow the influence of confinement and swirl to be quantified and show, for example, the increased tendency towards centerline recirculation which results from both. The results with the three types of instrumentation allow a comparison within the corner recirculation region which reveals that serious errors of interpretation of mean-velocity measurements need not arise. The two-equation model, although able to represent the non-swirling flow is less appropriate to the swirling flow and the reasons are indicated.


Author(s):  
Prabakaran Rajamanickam ◽  
Adam D Weiss

Summary In this article, axisymmetric solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations governing the flow induced by a half-line source when the fluid domain is bounded by a conical wall are discussed. Two types of boundary conditions are identified; one in which the radial velocity along the axis is prescribed, and the other in which the radial velocity along the axis is obtained as an eigenvalue of the problem. The existence of these solutions is limited to a range of Reynolds numbers, and the transition from one case to the other is discussed in detail.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2119 (1) ◽  
pp. 012003
Author(s):  
A K Shevchenko ◽  
S N Yakovenko

Abstract Submerged and impinging jets with harmonic perturbations added to the inlet velocity profile and with nozzle vibrations are simulated numerically at different Reynolds (Re) and Strouhal (St) numbers by solving the Navier–Stokes equations. The effects of Re, St and forcing amplitudes on flow behavior and jet splitting phenomena are studied.


2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-363
Author(s):  
Said El Hajji ◽  
Khalid Ilias

The basic idea of this new method resides in the fact that the major part of the relative information to the solution to calculate is contained in the small modes of a development of Fourier series; the raised modes of which the coefficients associated being small, being negligible to every instant, however, the effect of these modes on a long interval of time is not negligible. The nonlinear Galerkin method proposes economical treatment of these modes that permits, in spite of a simplified calculation, taking into account their interaction correctly with the other modes. After the introduction of this method, we elaborate an efficient strategy for its implementation.


Author(s):  
Seyed Erfan Salimipour ◽  
Ali Reza Teymourtash ◽  
Mojtaba Mamourian

Shooting accuracy of air gun projectiles is very important in sport tournaments and has always been questioned by enthusiasts. For this purpose, the performance of four samples of air gun projectiles (pellets) with various shapes and calibers of 4.5, 5.5 and 6.35 mm was studied in this article. The projectiles were four basic shapes: flat nose, sharp nose, round nose and spherical. After these projectiles were modeled geometrically, the three-dimensional compressible turbulent Navier–Stokes equations and dynamic equations of the projectiles’ motion were solved in a coupled form and in a moving computational grid. The computed results describe the trajectory, velocity variations and the altitude loss of the projectiles with time and location. Comparisons indicate that the round nose projectile had the best performance at long distances compared to the other samples. The flat nose projectile exhibited great performance at short distances, but behaved weakly at long distances. In addition, the effect of nose shape on the performance of the sharp and round nose projectiles was studied and the optimum nose shapes were identified.


2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (05) ◽  
pp. 827-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gonca L. Aki ◽  
Wolfgang Dreyer ◽  
Jan Giesselmann ◽  
Christiane Kraus

This work introduces a new thermodynamically consistent diffuse model for two-component flows of incompressible fluids. For the introduced diffuse interface model, we investigate physically admissible sharp interface limits by matched asymptotic techniques. To this end, we consider two scaling regimes where in one case we recover the Euler equations and in the other case the Navier–Stokes equations in the bulk phases equipped with admissible interfacial conditions. For the Navier–Stokes regime, we further assume the densities of the fluids are close to each other in the sense of a small parameter which is related to the interfacial thickness of the diffuse model.


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