Rheology and density of glucose syrup and honey: Determining their suitability for usage in analogue and fluid dynamic models of geological processes

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 1079-1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.P. Schellart
2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Karlström ◽  
Karin Eriksson

Abstract This is the first in a series of papers presenting the development of a comprehensive multiscale model with focus on fiber energy efficiency in thermo mechanical pulp processes. The fiber energy efficiency is related to the defibration and fibrillation work obtained when fibers and fiber bundles interact with the refining bars. The fiber energy efficiency differs from the total refining energy efficiency which includes the thermodynamical work as well. Extracting defibration and fibrillation work along the radius in the refining zone gives information valuable for fiber development studies.Models for this process must handle physical variables as well as machine specific parameters at different scales. To span the material and energy balances, spatial measurements from the refining zone must be available. In this paper, measurements of temperature profile and plate gaps from a full-scale CD-refiner are considered as model inputs together with a number of process variables. This enables the distributed consistency in the refining zone as well as the split of the total work between the flat zone and the CD-zone to be derived. As the temperature profile and the plate gap are available in the flat zone and the CD-zone at different process conditions it is also shown that the distributed pulp dynamic viscosity can be obtained. This is normally unknown in refining processes but certainly useful for all fluid dynamic models describing the bar-to-fiber interactions. Finally, it is shown that the inclusion of the machine parameters will be vital to get good estimates of the refining conditions and especially the split between the thermodynamical work and the defibration/fibrillation work.


2021 ◽  
pp. 073490412199344
Author(s):  
Wolfram Jahn ◽  
Frane Sazunic ◽  
Carlos Sing-Long

Synthesising data from fire scenarios using fire simulations requires iterative running of these simulations. For real-time synthesising, faster-than-real-time simulations are thus necessary. In this article, different model types are assessed according to their complexity to determine the trade-off between the accuracy of the output and the required computing time. A threshold grid size for real-time computational fluid dynamic simulations is identified, and the implications of simplifying existing field fire models by turning off sub-models are assessed. In addition, a temperature correction for two zone models based on the conservation of energy of the hot layer is introduced, to account for spatial variations of temperature in the near field of the fire. The main conclusions are that real-time fire simulations with spatial resolution are possible and that it is not necessary to solve all fine-scale physics to reproduce temperature measurements accurately. There remains, however, a gap in performance between computational fluid dynamic models and zone models that must be explored to achieve faster-than-real-time fire simulations.


2013 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 1327-1346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelghani Bellouquid ◽  
Juan Calvo ◽  
Juan Nieto ◽  
Juan Soler

2002 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Tambasco ◽  
David A. Steinman

Quantification of particle deposition patterns, transit times, and shear exposure is important for computational fluid dynamic (CFD) studies involving respiratory and arterial models. To numerically compute such path-dependent quantities, it is necessary to employ a Lagrangian approach where particles are tracked through a pre-computed velocity field. However, it is difficult to determine in advance whether a particular velocity field is sufficiently resolved for the purposes of tracking particles accurately. Towards this end, we propose the use of volumetric residence time (VRT)—previously defined for 2-D studies of platelet activation and here extended to more physiologically relevant 3-D models—as a means of quantifying whether a volume of Lagrangian fluid elements (LFE’s) seeded uniformly and contiguously at the model inlet remains uniform throughout the flow domain. Such “Lagrangian mass conservation” is shown to be satisfied when VRT=1 throughout the model domain. To demonstrate this novel concept, we computed maps of VRT and particle deposition in 3-D steady flow models of a stenosed carotid bifurcation constructed with one adaptively refined and three nominally uniform finite element meshes of increasing element density. A key finding was that uniform VRT could not be achieved for even the most resolved meshes and densest LFE seeding, suggesting that care should be taken when extracting quantitative information about path-dependent quantities. The VRT maps were found to be useful for identifying regions of a mesh that were under-resolved for such Lagrangian studies, and for guiding the construction of more adequately resolved meshes.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenio Trumpy ◽  
Gianluca Gola ◽  
Alessandro Santilano ◽  
Adele Manzella ◽  
Matteo Brambilla ◽  
...  

<p>Based on a joint analysis of geothermal indicators (e.g. temperature map at different depth, surface heat flux) and practical features (e.g. restricted areas, existing research lease), two promising areas in southern Tuscany were identified to perform a more detailed geothermal resource characterization. An area is located on the north-east of the Larderello-Travale geothermal field, and the other one is located on the west of the Mt. Amiata geothermal field.</p><p>A quantitative geothermal resources assessment was performed in the aforementioned areas of Tuscany by solving numerical thermo-fluid dynamic models and by computing the geothermal potential using the ‘ThermoGIS’ software, as further developed for the Italian case (Trumpy et al., 2016).</p><p>First of all, geological and geophysical data required for geological and thermo-fluid dynamic modelling were collected and organised. The geological data were used to build a 3D geological model of the two areas of interest suitable for numerical simulations. Static temperature data gathered from the Italian National Geothermal Database together with site-specific heat flow measurements were used to calibrate the simulated steady state temperature distribution.</p><p>The geothermal potential computed by integrating geological, thermal and petro-physical information implementing the volume method used in ThermoGIS provided estimates of the heat in place and the geothermal technical potential maps. The resulting technical potential in the area close to Larderello –Travale is 330 MW<sub>e</sub> and in the Mt. Amiata sector is 50MW<sub>e</sub>.</p><p>References</p><p>Trumpy E., Botteghi S., Caiozzi F., Donato A., Gola G., Montanari D., Pluymaekers M., Santilano A., Van Wees, J.D., Manzella A. Geothermal potential assessment for a low carbon strategy: a new systematic approach applied in southern Italy. Energy 103, 167-181, 2016.</p>


Biomaterials ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (34) ◽  
pp. 8753-8770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adebayo A. Adebiyi ◽  
Mohammad E. Taslim ◽  
Keith D. Crawford

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciro D'Apice ◽  
Peter I. Kogut ◽  
Rosanna Manzo

We study one class of nonlinear fluid dynamic models with impulse source terms. The model consists of a system of two hyperbolic conservation laws: a nonlinear conservation law for the goods density and a linear evolution equation for the processing rate. We consider the case when influx-rates in the second equation take the form of impulse functions. Using the vanishing viscosity method and the so-called principle of fictitious controls, we show that entropy solutions to the original Cauchy problem can be approximated by optimal solutions of special optimization problems.


1995 ◽  
Vol 136 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 223-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Mériaux ◽  
Claude Jaupart

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