Oscillating Rectilinear Fluid Flow Generator

1968 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 663-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. Hoppmann ◽  
Edward Kiss

A Rectilinear Fluid Flow Generator of an oscillating type has been developed for the purpose of studying the rheological properties and flow characteristics of both Newtonian and non-Newtonian liquids [1]. It consists essentially of two long horizontal concentric cylinders, in which the annulus is filled with a liquid. The external tube is mounted on elastic supports, while the internal tube can be harmonically oscillated axially at a predetermined frequency and amplitude. The motion of the external tube and the resultant force (liquid drag) acting on it are readily measurable at any time. The principle of the apparatus depends on the fact that the outside tube motion is dynamically coupled to the inside tube motion by the liquid in the annulus which itself is caused to move by the controlled oscillations of the inside tube. It is assumed, at least in principle, that if the motion of the outside tube is known for a given motion of the inside tube, the constitutive equations for the liquid can be determined. Or conversely, if the constitutive equations are known, the motion of the outside tube can be calculated for a given motion of the inside driving cylinder. It has been shown that the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations can be obtained for the flow of a viscous liquid within the annulus between two infinitely long concentric tubes, for the case where the fluid motion is generated by a rectilinear harmonic motion of the inner tube while the outer tube is assumed to be supported by elastic springs and moving parallel to its longitudinal axis. The velocity and shear stress in the fluid have been obtained, and asymptotic solution for drag force, and tube motions, as well as a method for determining the liquid viscosity coefficient are discussed. It is shown that the theoretical solution is important for the study of the motions of the Rectilinear Fluid Flow Generator.

Author(s):  
Shuichi Torii ◽  
Noritugu Ueda ◽  
Zijie Lin

The present study deals with unsteady laminar fluid flow phenomena around a pair of diamond-shaped cylinders in free stream. Emphasis is placed on the effects of the Reynolds number, Re, and the ratio of cylinder separation distance to length of diamond-shaped cylinder, s/d, on the flow patterns in side-by-side and tandem arrangements. The Navier-Stokes equations are discretized using finite difference method to determine the time history of velocity vector in the flow field. The Reynolds numbers, Re, is ranged from 30 to 300 and gap spacing, s/d, is varied from 0.0 to 2.5 for side-by-side and 0.0 to 5.0 for tandem, respectively. The results are compared with the experimental results with the aid of flow visualization method. The study discloses that (i) the generations of Karman vortex streets behind the diamond-shaped cylinders are intensified with an increase in the Reynolds number, (ii) the categorized flow patterns in the wake region of the diamond-shaped islands are affected by s/d, and (iii) the vortex shedding frequency in the wake of diamond-shaped cylinders depends on both the gap spacing and the formation of the vortices.


Author(s):  
K-S Yang ◽  
I-Y Chen ◽  
C-C Wang

A numerical study is conducted to examine the flow characteristics of the inkjet printer head with special attention made to the refilling process. By solving the full set of three-dimensional transient Navier-Stokes equations and considering the process of bubble growth and collapse as a movable membrane, the fluid flow inside the channel and the ejected droplet from the nozzle can be modelled. The calculated results indicate that the single refilling channel design provides the fastest refilling rate but also reveals pronounced flow surge/overshot phenomena. By using a double refilling channel design, the flow surge/overshot phenomenon can be reduced considerably owing to the imposed friction. Moreover, the flooding phenomenon is much less pronounced. However, placing an additional cylinder obstacle in the single filling channel will not reduce the flow surge/overshot phenomenon.


Transport ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-120
Author(s):  
Mykola Karpenko ◽  
Marijonas Bogdevičius

The article presents the findings of theoretical and experimental research on hydraulic processes occurring in the hydraulic drives of transport machines. The paper analyses the influence of hydrodynamic processes on the flow characteristics of fluid considering different hydraulic fitting connections. The performed analysis is based on numerical simulations using Navier–Stokes equations for the velocity field. The dynamics of fluid flow in the hydraulic system has been investigated taking into account the main parameters like system flow rate in the range of 5 to 100 L/min, the diameter of the pipeline making 1/2” and fitting standards DKOL, ORFS, BSP and JIS. As a result, pressure drop, power losses, resistance and flow coefficients at different fitting connections have been obtained. The article compares the provided results with the findings given employing the calculation method for the standard of equivalent length fitting. To simulate fluid flow, a mesh independence study and turbulence calculations have been performed. Simulation results have been examined conducting physical experiments on measuring pressure losses. Each experimental research includes three measurements of connections bearing in mind each fitting standard.


1985 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 789-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. Borghesani

The Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid motion induced by a disk rotating inside a cylindrical cavity have been integrated for several values of the boundary layer thickness d. The equivalence of such a device to a rotating disk immersed in an infinite medium has been shown in the limit as d → 0. From that solution and taking into account edge effect corrections an equation for the viscous torque acting on the disk has been derived, which depends only on d. Moreover, these results justify the use of a rotating disk to perform accurate viscosity measurements.


2016 ◽  
Vol 792 ◽  
pp. 5-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe A. Zampogna ◽  
Alessandro Bottaro

The interaction between a fluid flow and a transversely isotropic porous medium is described. A homogenized model is used to treat the flow field in the porous region, and different interface conditions, needed to match solutions at the boundary between the pure fluid and the porous regions, are evaluated. Two problems in different flow regimes (laminar and turbulent) are considered to validate the system, which includes inertia in the leading-order equations for the permeability tensor through a Oseen approximation. The components of the permeability, which characterize microscopically the porous medium and determine the flow field at the macroscopic scale, are reasonably well estimated by the theory, both in the laminar and the turbulent case. This is demonstrated by comparing the model’s results to both experimental measurements and direct numerical simulations of the Navier–Stokes equations which resolve the flow also through the pores of the medium.


2005 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 611-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Su ◽  
D. Lee ◽  
R. Tran-Son-Tay ◽  
W. Shyy

The fluid flow through a stenosed artery and its bypass graft in an anastomosis can substantially influence the outcome of bypass surgery. To help improve our understanding of this and related issues, the steady Navier-Stokes flows are computed in an idealized arterial bypass system with partially occluded host artery. Both the residual flow issued from the stenosis—which is potentially important at an earlier stage after grafting—and the complex flow structure induced by the bypass graft are investigated. Seven geometric models, including symmetric and asymmetric stenoses in the host artery, and two major aspects of the bypass system, namely, the effects of area reduction and stenosis asymmetry, are considered. By analyzing the flow characteristics in these configurations, it is found that (1) substantial area reduction leads to flow recirculation in both upstream and downstream of the stenosis and in the host artery near the toe, while diminishes the recirculation zone in the bypass graft near the bifurcation junction, (2) the asymmetry and position of the stenosis can affect the location and size of these recirculation zones, and (3) the curvature of the bypass graft can modify the fluid flow structure in the entire bypass system.


1965 ◽  
Vol 69 (658) ◽  
pp. 714-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald D. Mills

The Navier-Stokes equations are solved iteratively on a small digital computer for the class of flows generated within a rectangular “cavity” by a surface passing over its open end. Solutions are presented for depth/breadth ratios ƛ=0.5 (shallow), 10 (square), 20 (deep) and Reynolds number 100. Flow photographs ore obtained which largely confirm the predicted flows. The theoretical velocity profiles and pressure distributions through the centre of the vortex in the square cavity are calculated.In an appendix an improved finite difference formula is given for the vorticity generated at a moving boundary.Since Thorn began his pioneering work some thirty-five years ago the number of numerical solutions which have been obtained for the equations of incompressible viscous fluid motion remains small (see bibliographies of Thom and Apelt, Fromm). The known solutions are principally for steady streaming flows, although two methods have now been used with success for non-steady flows (Payne jets and Fromm flow past obstacles). By contrast this paper is concerned with the class of closed flows generated in a rectangular region of varying depth/breadth ratio by a surface passing over an open end. This problem has been considered for a number of reasons.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Yao ◽  
Kwongi Lee ◽  
Minho Ha ◽  
Cheolung Cheong ◽  
Inhiug Lee

A new pump, called the hybrid airlift-jet pump, is developed by reinforcing the advantages and minimizing the demerits of airlift and jet pumps. First, a basic design of the hybrid airlift-jet pump is schematically presented. Subsequently, its performance characteristics are numerically investigated by varying the operating conditions of the airlift and jet parts in the hybrid pump. The compressible unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations, combined with the homogeneous mixture model for multiphase flow, are used as the governing equations for the two-phase flow in the hybrid pump. The pressure-based methods combined with the Pressure-Implicit with Splitting of Operators (PISO) algorithm are used as the computational fluid dynamics techniques. The validity of the present numerical methods is confirmed by comparing the predicted mass flow rate with the measured ones. In total, 18 simulation cases that are designed to represent the various operating conditions of the hybrid pump are investigated: eight of these cases belong to the operating conditions of only the jet part with different air and water inlet boundary conditions, and the remaining ten cases belong to the operating conditions of both the airlift and jet parts with different air and water inlet boundary conditions. The mass flow rate and the efficiency are compared for each case. For further investigation into the detailed flow characteristics, the pressure and velocity distributions of the mixture in a primary pipe are compared. Furthermore, a periodic fluctuation of the water flow in the mass flow rate is found and analyzed. Our results show that the performance of the jet or airlift pump can be enhanced by combining the operating principles of two pumps into the hybrid airlift-jet pump, newly proposed in the present study.


1972 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. P. Jayasinghe ◽  
H. J. Leutheusser

This paper deals with elastic waves which may be generated in a fluid by the sudden movement of a flow boundary. In particular, an analysis of the classical piston, or signalling problem is presented for the special case of arbitrary velocity input into a stationary fluid contained in a circular, semi-infinite waveguide. The decay of the pulse, as well as the resulting flow development in the inlet region of the pipe are analyzed by means of an asymptotic expansion of the suitably nondimensionalized Navier-Stokes equations for a compressible, nonheat-conducting Newtonian fluid. The results differ significantly from those of the more conventional one-dimensional approach based on the so-called telegrapher’s equation of mathematical physics. The present theory realistically predicts the growth of a boundary layer both in time and position and, hence, it appears to represent the transient fluid motion in a manner which is physically more appealing.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document