Viscosity effect on electrohydrodynamic (EHD) spraying of liquids

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1989 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Marcandalli ◽  
Pier Luigi Beltrame ◽  
Ernestina Dubini-Paglia ◽  
Alberto Seves

Author(s):  
Yi Shi ◽  
Jianjun Zhu ◽  
Haoyu Wang ◽  
Haiwen Zhu ◽  
Jiecheng Zhang ◽  
...  

Assembled in series with multistage, Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESP) are widely used in offshore petroleum production due to the high production rate and efficiency. The hydraulic performance of ESPs is subjected to the fluid viscosity. High oil viscosity leads to the degradation of ESP boosting pressure compared to the catalog curves under water flow. In this paper, the influence of fluid viscosity on the performance of a 14-stage radial-type ESP under varying operational conditions, e.g. rotational speeds 1800–3500 r/min, viscosities 25–520 cP, was investigated. Numerical simulations were conducted on the same ESP model using a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software. The simulated average pump head is comparable to the corresponding experimental data under different viscosities and rotational speeds with less than ±20% prediction error. A mechanistic model accounting for the viscosity effect on ESP boosting pressure is proposed based on the Euler head in a centrifugal pump. A conceptual best-match flowrate QBM is introduced, at which the impeller outlet flow direction matches the designed flow direction. The recirculation losses caused by the mismatch of velocity triangles and other head losses resulted from the flow direction change, friction loss and leakage flow etc., are included in the model. The comparison of model predicted pump head versus experimental measurements under viscous fluid flow conditions demonstrates good agreement. The overall prediction error is less than ±10%.


2012 ◽  
Vol 562-564 ◽  
pp. 1172-1176
Author(s):  
Jing Ping Wu ◽  
Shun Huai Chen ◽  
Ji Cheng Xiao

This paper numerically calculates the pressure distributions of a rudder of a ship for structure strength design. The sections profile of the rudder is NACA0020 airfoil. The viscous flow is simulated by FLUENT commercial software, while the model and mesh is generated by GAMBIT software. A 2D viscous flow around a NACA0020 airfoil is calculated firstly. Some notices are given here about the magnitude of computing domain, the density distribution and the numbers of grid nodes on the airfoil surface in order to gain better results. Then, based on these experiences, the viscous flow around a 3D rudder is simulated. The calculated pressure coefficients on the rudder’s section are compared with the experiment results and BEM results of the potential theory. At the attack angles and , the three results agree well with each other. However, when the attack angle is , the viscous results from FLUENT give better agreement with the experiment results than the BEM results. This conclusion confirms that the viscosity effect is great in the case of large attack angles.


1980 ◽  
Vol 102 (8) ◽  
pp. 2806-2810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nein-Chu C. Yang ◽  
Soon Bin Neoh ◽  
Takeaki Naito ◽  
Lay-Keow Ng ◽  
Donald A. Chernoff ◽  
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1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (20) ◽  
pp. 7369-7372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis D. Tanner ◽  
Christian P. Meintzer ◽  
Eve C. Tsai ◽  
H. Oumar-Mahamat

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 391-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Montois ◽  
Valérie Nassiet ◽  
Jacques Alain Petit ◽  
Yves Baziard
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Author(s):  
А.Н. Афанасьев ◽  
П.С. Алексеев ◽  
А.А. Грешнов ◽  
М.А. Семина

In conductors with a very small density of defects, electrons at low temperatures collide predominantly with a sample edges. Therefore, the ballistic regime of charge and heat transport is realized. The application of a perpendicular magnetic field substantially modifies the character of ballistic transport. For the case of two-dimensional (2D) electrons in the magnetic fields corresponding to the diameter of the cyclotron trajectories smaller than the sample width a hydrodynamic transport regime is formed. In the latter regime, the flow is mainly controlled by rare electron–electron collisions, which determine the viscosity effect. In this work, we study the ballistic flow of 2D electrons in long samples in magnetic fields up to the critical field of the transition to the hydrodynamic regime. From solution of the kinetic equation, we obtain analytical formulas for the profiles of the current density and the Hall electric field far and near the ballistic-hydrodynamic transition as well as for the longitudinal and Hall resistances in these ranges. Our theoretical results, apparently, describe the observed longitudinal resistance of pure graphene samples in the diapason of magnetic fields below the ballistic-hydrodynamic transition.


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