An Analysis of Unsteady Torque on a Two-Dimensional Radial Impeller

1982 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Imaichi ◽  
Y. Tsujimoto ◽  
Y. Yoshida

Unsteady flows around radial impellers are analyzed by the use of singularity methods. Unsteady torque is given for transient and/or sinusoidal flow rate and/or angular velocity fluctuation. It is shown that the unsteady torque can be divided into three components—quasisteady, apparent mass and wake—and the nature of each component is discussed. As a result of separating the torque into these three components, it is shown that the wake component is usually smaller than the others. A gross estimate of torque fluctuation can be made easily by using the apparent mass coefficient given in the paper for logarithmic impellers covering a wide range of blade angles, blade numbers and impeller diameter ratios.

1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-413
Author(s):  
Y. Tsujimoto ◽  
K. Imaichi ◽  
T. Moritani ◽  
K. Kim

Apparent mass torque coefficients for fluctuations of flow rate and angular velocity are determined experimentally for two-dimensional centrifugal impellers. Nearly sinusoidal fluctuations of flow rate and angular velocity are produced by using crank mechanisms, and the resulting unsteady torque on the impeller is measured. The torque is divided into components in-phase and out-of-phase with the displacements. The in-phase components are used to determine the apparent mass coefficients. Drag torque coefficients are defined and used to represent the out-of-phase components. The tests are conducted under various frequencies and amplitudes of the fluctuations with zero mean flow rate and rotational velocity. The apparent mass torque coefficients are compared with theoretical values obtained under the assumption of a two-dimensional potential flow. The experimental values are 5 to 20 percent larger than the theoretical ones and no appreciable effects of the frequency and the amplitude are observed within the range of the experiments.


Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Oishi ◽  
Geoffrey M. Vasil ◽  
Morgan Baxter ◽  
Andrew Swan ◽  
Keaton J. Burns ◽  
...  

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) occurs when a weak magnetic field destabilizes a rotating, electrically conducting fluid with inwardly increasing angular velocity. The MRI is essential to astrophysical disc theory where the shear is typically Keplerian. Internal shear layers in stars may also be MRI-unstable, and they take a wide range of profiles, including near-critical. We show that the fastest growing modes of an ideal magnetofluid are three-dimensional provided the shear rate, S , is near the two-dimensional onset value, S c . For a Keplerian shear, three-dimensional modes are unstable above S  ≈ 0.10 S c , and dominate the two-dimensional modes until S  ≈ 2.05 S c . These three-dimensional modes dominate for shear profiles relevant to stars and at magnetic Prandtl numbers relevant to liquid-metal laboratory experiments. Significant numbers of rapidly growing three-dimensional modes remainy well past 2.05 S c . These finding are significant in three ways. First, weakly nonlinear theory suggests that the MRI saturates by pushing the shear rate to its critical value. This can happen for systems, such as stars and laboratory experiments, that can rearrange their angular velocity profiles. Second, the non-normal character and large transient growth of MRI modes should be important whenever three-dimensionality exists. Finally, three-dimensional growth suggests direct dynamo action driven from the linear instability.


1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Tsujimoto ◽  
K. Imaichi ◽  
T. Tomohiro ◽  
M. Gotoo

A new method is given for the analysis of unsteady flows through mixed flow impellers under an assumption of a two-dimensional flow in a representative flow surface of revolution. The flow is mapped to one around a two-dimensional annular cascade. If the thickness of the impeller flow passage changes in a certain functional form, the flow can be represented by using a two-dimensional potential flow in the mapping plane. For impellers with such a thickness distribution, small sinusoidal and/or large transient fluctuations of flow rate and/or rotational velocity are considered. Special attention is paid to the unsteady torque on the impeller. The unsteady torque is divided into three components—quasisteady, apparent mass and wake, and the effects of the geometry of the flow surface on each component are discussed. Apparent mass torque coefficients are determined for fluctuations of flow rate and rotational velocity. Stability of torsional vibration and surging are discussed from energy considerations.


Author(s):  
Herman D. Haustein ◽  
Wilko Rohlfs ◽  
Faruk Al-Sibai ◽  
Reinhold Kneer

Heat exchangers employing falling films are relevant to a multitude of industrial applications using water-based liquids. In the present study, periodic, two-dimensional waves are imposed by excitation on a vertically falling film of water, which is then heated by a uniform heat flux, within the laminar and transitional flow range (39<Re<200). Liquid-film thickness is measured by confocal chromatic imaging and surface temperature is measured by high-speed IR thermography. As the 2D waves travel downstream they destabilize in the spanwise direction and evolve 3D structures (bumps). Further wave destabilization, under relatively low heating, was observed to coincide with the appearance of local thermal flows (“hot streaks”), though no deformation of the liquid surface could be measured. These flows are understood to be induced by thermo-capillary forces, which in extreme cases are known to lead to the formation of rivulets, film rupture and heater burnout. Understanding these initial stages of thermo-capillary flow is crucial to its suppression. Analysis of the thermal images reveals several significant streamwise length scales: a thermal inlet length based on the emergence of the thermal boundary layer (Lt), a thermal inlet length based on reaching thermally developed conditions (Lh), and the length at which “hot-streaks” first appear (Ls). In addition the dominant (most unstable) spanwise wavelength of the hot streaks, Lz, was identified through FFT analysis of the thermal profile beyond Ls. First the independence of the thermal inlet lengths from the heat-flux was established. Next, the influence of the nominal flow conditions (Reynolds number and excitation frequency) on Lt, Lh and Lz was examined — thereby extending the range of previous studies to higher Reynolds numbers. The thermal inlet lengths Lt and Lh were found to increase with flow rate, whereas they had opposing trends with regard to frequency. Lz consistently decreased with an increase of the flow rate, as smaller (turbulent) scales became more dominant, and it was found to be indifferent to excitation frequency over a wide range. Some future directions and methods of hot streak suppression are discussed, as well.


2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-64
Author(s):  
Mikhail Alekseyevich Golovkin ◽  
Andrey Aleksandrovich Efremov ◽  
Miroslav Sergeevich Makhnev

HortScience ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 556-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredy Van Wassenhove ◽  
Patrick Dirinck ◽  
Georges Vulsteke ◽  
Niceas Schamp

A two-dimensional capillary gas chromatographic method was developed to separate and quantify aromatic volatiles of celery in one analysis. The isolation, identification, and quantification of the volatile compounds of four cultivars of blanching celery (Apium graveolens L. var. dulce) and six cultivars of celeriac (Apium graveolens L. var. rapaceum) are described. The qualitative composition of Likens-Nickerson extracts of both cultivars is similar. The concentration of terpenes and phthalides, the key volatile components, found in various cultivars of both celery and celeriac varied over a wide range.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1431
Author(s):  
Sungsik Wang ◽  
Tae Heung Lim ◽  
Kyoungsoo Oh ◽  
Chulhun Seo ◽  
Hosung Choo

This article proposes a method for the prediction of wide range two-dimensional refractivity for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications, using an inverse distance weighted (IDW) interpolation of high-altitude radio refractivity data from multiple meteorological observatories. The radio refractivity is extracted from an atmospheric data set of twenty meteorological observatories around the Korean Peninsula along a given altitude. Then, from the sparse refractive data, the two-dimensional regional radio refractivity of the entire Korean Peninsula is derived using the IDW interpolation, in consideration of the curvature of the Earth. The refractivities of the four seasons in 2019 are derived at the locations of seven meteorological observatories within the Korean Peninsula, using the refractivity data from the other nineteen observatories. The atmospheric refractivities on 15 February 2019 are then evaluated across the entire Korean Peninsula, using the atmospheric data collected from the twenty meteorological observatories. We found that the proposed IDW interpolation has the lowest average, the lowest average root-mean-square error (RMSE) of ∇M (gradient of M), and more continuous results than other methods. To compare the resulting IDW refractivity interpolation for airborne SAR applications, all the propagation path losses across Pohang and Heuksando are obtained using the standard atmospheric condition of ∇M = 118 and the observation-based interpolated atmospheric conditions on 15 February 2019. On the terrain surface ranging from 90 km to 190 km, the average path losses in the standard and derived conditions are 179.7 dB and 182.1 dB, respectively. Finally, based on the air-to-ground scenario in the SAR application, two-dimensional illuminated field intensities on the terrain surface are illustrated.


2020 ◽  
Vol 146 ◽  
pp. 03004
Author(s):  
Douglas Ruth

The most influential parameter on the behavior of two-component flow in porous media is “wettability”. When wettability is being characterized, the most frequently used parameter is the “contact angle”. When a fluid-drop is placed on a solid surface, in the presence of a second, surrounding fluid, the fluid-fluid surface contacts the solid-surface at an angle that is typically measured through the fluid-drop. If this angle is less than 90°, the fluid in the drop is said to “wet” the surface. If this angle is greater than 90°, the surrounding fluid is said to “wet” the surface. This definition is universally accepted and appears to be scientifically justifiable, at least for a static situation where the solid surface is horizontal. Recently, this concept has been extended to characterize wettability in non-static situations using high-resolution, two-dimensional digital images of multi-component systems. Using simple thought experiments and published experimental results, many of them decades old, it will be demonstrated that contact angles are not primary parameters – their values depend on many other parameters. Using these arguments, it will be demonstrated that contact angles are not the cause of wettability behavior but the effect of wettability behavior and other parameters. The result of this is that the contact angle cannot be used as a primary indicator of wettability except in very restricted situations. Furthermore, it will be demonstrated that even for the simple case of a capillary interface in a vertical tube, attempting to use simply a two-dimensional image to determine the contact angle can result in a wide range of measured values. This observation is consistent with some published experimental results. It follows that contact angles measured in two-dimensions cannot be trusted to provide accurate values and these values should not be used to characterize the wettability of the system.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 7260
Author(s):  
Yang Jun Kang

Determination of blood viscosity requires consistent measurement of blood flow rates, which leads to measurement errors and presents several issues when there are continuous changes in hematocrit changes. Instead of blood viscosity, a coflowing channel as a pressure sensor is adopted to quantify the dynamic flow of blood. Information on blood (i.e., hematocrit, flow rate, and viscosity) is not provided in advance. Using a discrete circuit model for the coflowing streams, the analytical expressions for four properties (i.e., pressure, shear stress, and two types of work) are then derived to quantify the flow of the test fluid. The analytical expressions are validated through numerical simulations. To demonstrate the method, the four properties are obtained using the present method by varying the flow patterns (i.e., constant flow rate or sinusoidal flow rate) as well as test fluids (i.e., glycerin solutions and blood). Thereafter, the present method is applied to quantify the dynamic flows of RBC aggregation-enhanced blood with a peristaltic pump, where any information regarding the blood is not specific. The experimental results indicate that the present method can quantify dynamic blood flow consistently, where hematocrit changes continuously over time.


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