Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Jump Using the Improved Space-Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method

2014 ◽  
Vol 575 ◽  
pp. 790-799
Author(s):  
Hoong Thiam Toh

This paper illustrates how Space-time Conservation Element and Solution Element (CE/SE) method which is developed for compressible flow can be used to solve the Saint-Venant equations numerically. The sharp shock-capturing capability of the scheme is demonstrated through the simulation of hydraulic jump phenomenon in prismatic open-channels. Two channel cross-section geometries are considered, viz rectangular and triangular cross sections. The code developed for the present study is validated by solving the benchmark problem of dam-break flow. The numerical solution of the Saint-Venant equations for the rectangular channel is found to be in good agreement with the experimental data available in the literature. The effect of channel wall slope on hydraulic jump in triangular channel is also discussed in this paper.

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Italon Rilson Vicente Gama ◽  
André Luiz Andrade Simões ◽  
Harry Edmar Schulz ◽  
Rodrigo De Melo Porto

<p>Ondas de cheia em canais e ondas produzidas por manobras em comportas são alguns fenômenos simulados com as equações de Saint-Venant em aplicações de engenharia. Um novo código foi desenvolvido para a solução dessas equações aplicadas a um canal trapezoidal assimétrico, empregando o método de volumes finitos de Lax e Friedrichs. Foi adotada uma linguagem de programação reconhecida por um <em>software</em> livre. Três testes numéricos foram realizados. O primeiro, correspondente à passagem de uma onda de cheia em um canal retangular, apresentou aderência aos resultados obtidos com a solução calculada através do método implícito de Preissmann, com desvio relativo máximo de 1,4% para a velocidade e de 0,81% para a altura de escoamento. O segundo teste resolveu o escoamento em um canal de fundo variado que induz à formação de um ressalto hidráulico. As comparações dos presentes resultados com aqueles de simulações publicadas recentemente resultaram em um desvio máximo de 2,3% para as alturas de escoamento, a montante e a jusante do ressalto hidráulico. Para as posições médias do ressalto hidráulico, o desvio foi de 2,4%. Na terceira comparação, simulou-se um ressalto hidráulico em um canal trapezoidal assimétrico de forte declividade, tendo sido encontrada uma solução com desvios relativos menores que 1% para os escoamentos a montante e a jusante do ressalto, quando comparados aos resultados calculados com o método de MacCormack. A posição média do ressalto nesta terceira comparação apresentou um desvio de 5,5% em relação aos resultados anteriores. Os desvios calculados indicam que o código desenvolvido é capaz de resolver escoamentos variáveis em canais com e sem a formação de ressaltos hidráulicos. Este é um resultado de cunho prático, pois mostra que códigos livres podem ser usados na prática da hidráulica em geometrias não-convencionais.</p><p> </p><p align="center">OPEN SOURCE FOR NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF SAINT-VENAN EQUATIONS IN ASYMMETRIC TRAPEZOIDAL OPEN-CHANNELS</p><p>Flood waves in channels, positive waves produced when operating floodgates, and the hydraulic jump are some phenomena simulated with the Saint-Venant equations in practical engineering applications. A new code was developed to solve these equations applied to an asymmetric trapezoidal channel using the Lax-Friedrichs finite volumes method. A programming language recognized by a free software was used. Three numerical tests were performed. The first, corresponding to the passage of a flood wave in a rectangular channel, showed adherence to results of the solution calculated using the Preissmann implicit method, presenting a maximum relative deviation of 1.4% for the speed and 0.81% for the flow height. The second test solved the flow in a channel with a variable bed that induces the formation of a hydraulic jump. Comparisons of the present results with those of recently published simulations produced a maximum deviation of 2.3% for the flow heights, upstream and downstream of the hydraulic jump. For the mean positions of the hydraulic jump the deviation was 2.4%. In the third comparison a hydraulic jump was simulated in an asymmetric trapezoidal channel with a strong slope, obtaining a solution with relative deviations less than 1% for flows upstream downstream of the jump, when compared to the results calculated with the MacCormack method. The average position of the jump in this third comparison showed a deviation of 5.5% in relation to the former results. The calculated deviations indicate that the developed code is capable of solving variable flows in channels with and without the formation of hydraulic jumps. This is a practical result, because it shows that open codes can be used in the practice of hydraulics in nonconventional geometries.</p>


Author(s):  
Omid Asgari ◽  
Mohammad Hassan Saidi

Microchannel are at the fore front of today’s cooling technologies. They are widely being considered for cooling of electronic devices and in micro heat exchanger systems due to their ease of manufacture. One issue which arises in the use of microchannels is related to the small length scale of the channel or channel cross-section. In this work, the maximum heat transfer and the optimum geometry for a given pressure loss have been calculated for forced convective heat transfer in microchannels of various cross-section having finite volume for laminar flow conditions. Solutions are presented for 10 different channel cross sections, namely parallel plate channel, circular duct, rectangular channel, elliptical duct, polygonal ducts, equilateral triangular duct, isosceles triangular duct, right triangular duct, rhombic duct and trapezoidal duct. The model is only a function of Prandtl number and geometrical parameters of the cross-section, i.e., area and perimeter. This solution is performed with two exact and approximate methods. Finally, in addition to comparison and discussion about these two methods, validation of the relationship is provided using results from the open literature.


2020 ◽  
Vol 156 ◽  
pp. 04003
Author(s):  
Tias Ravena Maitsa ◽  
M Gilang Indra Mardika ◽  
Mohammad Bagus Adityawan ◽  
Dhemi Harlan ◽  
Dyah Kusumastuti ◽  
...  

Dam-break is one of the disasters that can occurred due to earthquake. The earthquake vibration may damage the dam construction and therefore causing a dam-break flow. The flow can cause severe destruction to the downstream urban area. Dam-break modeling offers a way to analyze its effect of buildings. In this study, a 2D model for analyzing dam break flow is developed based on the Saint Venant equations and solved using Lax Scheme. The initial condition of the modelling is a rectangular channel with obstacles at both sides of the channel and two similar columns in the middle of the channel. These obstacles are considered as buildings in an urban area. Numerical filter is used to increase the stability of the simulation. The developed model is able to perform well in simulating a case of urban dam-break based on a previous experiment. In addition, the applied numerical filter is able to handle shock, therefore maintaining the stability of the model while reducing the simulation time without the needs to use a higher order numerical scheme.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 5597
Author(s):  
Hussein A. Z. AL-bonsrulah ◽  
Mohammed J. Alshukri ◽  
Ammar I. Alsabery ◽  
Ishak Hashim

Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEM-FC) aggregation pressure causes extensive strains in cell segments. The compression of each segment takes place through the cell modeling method. In addition, a very heterogeneous compressive load is produced because of the recurrent channel rib design of the dipole plates, so that while high strains are provided below the rib, the domain continues in its initial uncompressed case under the ducts approximate to it. This leads to significant spatial variations in thermal and electrical connections and contact resistances (both in rib–GDL and membrane–GDL interfaces). Variations in heat, charge, and mass transfer rates within the GDL can affect the performance of the fuel cell (FC) and its lifetime. In this paper, two scenarios are considered to verify the performance and lifetime of the PEM-FC using different innovative channel geometries. The first scenario is conducted by adopting a constant channel height (H = 1 mm) for all the differently shaped channels studied. In contrast, the second scenario is conducted by taking a constant channel cross-sectional area (A = 1 mm2) for all the studied channels. Therefore, a computational fluid dynamics model (CFD) for a PEM fuel cell is formed through the assembly of FC to simulate the pressure variations inside it. The simulation results showed that a triangular cross-section channel provided the uniformity of the pressure distribution, with lower deformations and lower mechanical stresses. The analysis helped gain insights into the physical mechanisms that lead to the FC’s durability and identify important parameters under different conditions. The model shows that it can assume the intracellular pressure configuration toward durability and appearance containing limited experimental data. The results also proved that the better cell voltage occurs in the case of the rectangular channel cross-section, and therefore, higher power from the FC, although its durability is much lower compared to the durability of the triangular channel. The results also showed that the rectangular channel cross-section gave higher cell voltages, and therefore, higher power (0.63 W) from the fuel cell, although its durability is much lower compared to the durability of the triangular channel. Therefore, the triangular channel gives better performance compared to other innovative channels.


Author(s):  
Charles J. Oswald

Measurements made on a long span reinforced concrete arch culvert under 7.3 m (24 ft) of silty clay backfill were compared with results from finite-element analyses of the soil-structure system using the CANDE finite-element code. The culvert strains and deflections and the soil pressure on the culvert were measured during construction and during the following 2.5 years at three instrumented cross sections. The CANDE program was modified to account for the effects of concrete creep and shrinkage strains after it was noted that the measured postconstruction culvert deflection and strains increased significantly whereas the measured soil pressure on the culvert remained relatively constant. Good agreement was generally obtained between measured and calculated values of the culvert strain and deflection and the soil pressure during the entire monitoring period after the code was modified.


1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 748-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Niewitecka ◽  
L. Krause

The disorientation of 62P1/2 cesium atoms, induced in collisions with noble gas atoms in their ground states, was systematically investigated by monitoring the depolarization of cesium resonance fluorescence in relation to noble gas pressures. The Cs atoms, contained together with a buffer gas in a fluorescence cell and located in zero magnetic field, were excited and oriented by irradiation with circularly polarized 8943 Å resonance radiation, and the resonance fluorescence, emitted in an approximately backward direction, was analyzed with respect to circular polarization. The experiments yielded the following disorientation cross sections which have been corrected for the effects of nuclear spin: Cs–He: 4.9 ± 0.7 Å2; Cs–Ne: 2.1 ± 0.3 Å2; Cs–Ar: 5.6 ± 0.8 Å2; Cs–Kr: 5.8 ± 0.9 Å2; Cs–Xe: 6.3 ± 0.9 Å2. The results are in good agreement with most of the available zero-field and low-field data.


Author(s):  
Anahita Ayasoufi ◽  
Theo G. Keith ◽  
Ramin K. Rahmani

An improvement is introduced to the conservation element and solution element (CE/SE) phase change scheme presented previously. The improvement addresses a well known weakness in numerical simulations of the enthalpy method when the Stefan number, (the ratio of sensible to latent heat) is small (less than 0.1). Behavior of the improved scheme, at the limit of small Stefan numbers, is studied and compared with that of the original scheme. It is shown that high dissipative errors, associated with small Stefan numbers, do not occur using the new scheme.


Author(s):  
Mosbah Ben Said ◽  
Ahmed Ouamane

Abstract Labyrinth weirs are commonly used to increase the capacity of existing spillways and provide more efficient spillways for new dams due to their high specific discharge capacity compared to the linear weir. In the present study, experimental and numerical investigation was conducted to improve the rectangular labyrinth weir performance. In this context, four configurations were tested to evaluate the influence of the entrance shape and alveoli width on its discharge capacity. The experimental models, three models of rectangular labyrinth weir with rounded entrance and one with flat entrance, were tested in rectangular channel conditions for inlet width to outlet width ratios (a/b) equal to 0.67, 1 and 1.5. The results indicate that the rounded entrance increases the weir efficiency by up to 5%. A ratio a/b equal to 1.5 leads to an 8 and 18% increase in the discharge capacity compared to a/b ratio equal to 1 and 0.67, respectively. In addition, a numerical simulation was conducted using the opensource CFD OpenFOAM to analyze and provide more information about the flow behavior over the tested models. A comparison between the experimental and numerical discharge coefficient was performed and good agreement was found (Mean Absolute Relative Error of 4–6%).


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Totterdill ◽  
Tamás Kovács ◽  
Wuhu Feng ◽  
Sandip Dhomse ◽  
Christopher J. Smith ◽  
...  

Abstract. Fluorinated compounds such as NF3 and C2F5Cl (CFC-115) are characterised by very large global warming potentials (GWPs) which result from extremely long atmospheric lifetimes and strong infrared absorptions in the atmospheric window. In this study we have experimentally determined the infrared absorption cross-sections of NF3 and CFC-115, calculated the radiative forcing and efficiency using two radiative transfer models and identified the effect of clouds and stratospheric adjustment. The infrared cross sections are in good agreement with previous measurements, whereas the resulting radiative forcings and efficiencies are, on average, around 10 % larger. A whole atmosphere chemistry-climate model was used to determine the atmospheric lifetimes of NF3 and CFC-115 to be (616 ± 34) years and (492 ± 22) years, respectively. The GWPs for NF3 are estimated to be 14 600, 19 400 and 21 400 over 20, 100 and 500 years, respectively. Similarly, the GWPs for CFC-115 are 6120, 8060 and 8630 over 20, 100 and 500 years, respectively.


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