DYNAMIC MODELING FOR WATER FLOW

2014 ◽  
pp. 197-252
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Author(s):  
Yongwen Liu ◽  
Ming Su

This paper describes the dynamic modeling and simulation of spray tower saturator using one-dimensional flow control volume method, as a part of study for dynamic modeling of the humid air turbine cycle. The mass, energy and momentum exchanges between gas flow and water flow, as well as their conservations, are taken into consideration. Separate modules are built for gas flow and water flow, and are put into an application library of EASY5, which is general-purpose simulation software. Modular structure and mathematical causality needed by explicit modeling are maintained for the modules in the application library. Then spray tower saturators can be divided into arbitrary number of segments, and each one is modeled by a gas flow module and a water flow module. To exemplify the modeling method, two dynamic models with different number of segments are built for a spray tower saturator. For steady state analysis, quantity variations with tower height at design point are illustrated, and the results of the two models are compared. For dynamic analysis, two dynamic simulations are run to obtain response to 10% step increase of the gas and water inlet temperature respectively. Estimation of the dominant time constants by linearized model is also discussed.


Author(s):  
A.J. Mia ◽  
L.X. Oakford ◽  
T. Yorio

The amphibian urinary bladder has been used as a ‘model’ system for studies of the mechanism of action of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) in stimulating transepithelial water flow. The increase in water permeability is accompanied by morphological changes that include the stimulation of apical microvilli, mobilization of microtubules and microfilaments and vesicular membrane fusion events . It has been shown that alterations in the cytosolic calcium concentrations can inhibit ADH transmembrane water flow and induce alterations in the epithelial cell cytomorphology, including the cytoskeletal system . Recently, the subapical granules of the granular cell in the amphibian urinary bladder have been shown to contain high concentrations of calcium, and it was suggested that these cytoplasmic constituents may act as calcium storage sites for intracellular calcium homeostasis. The present study utilizes the calcium antagonist, verapamil, to examine the effect of calcium deprivation on the cytomorphological features of epithelial cells from amphibian urinary bladder, with particular emphasis on subapical granule and microfilament distribution.


2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Watson ◽  
Carl Byington ◽  
Douglas Edwards ◽  
Sanket Amin

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 774-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles C. Driver ◽  
Manuel C. Voelkle

Author(s):  
Enrico Marchi ◽  
Attilio Adami ◽  
Alfredo Caielli ◽  
Giovanni Cecconi

Author(s):  
Anatoly Kusher

The reliability of water flow measurement in irrigational canals depends on the measurement method and design features of the flow-measuring structure and the upstream flow velocity profile. The flow velocity profile is a function of the channel geometry and wall roughness. The article presents the study results of the influence of the upstream flow velocity profile on the discharge measurement accuracy. For this, the physical and numerical modeling of two structures was carried out: a critical depth flume and a hydrometric overfall in a rectangular channel. According to the data of numerical simulation of the critical depth flume with a uniform and parabolic (1/7) velocity profile in the upstream channel, the values of water discharge differ very little from the experimental values in the laboratory model with a similar geometry (δ < 2 %). In contrast to the critical depth flume, a change in the velocity profile only due to an increase in the height of the bottom roughness by 3 mm causes a decrease of the overfall discharge coefficient by 4…5 %. According to the results of the numerical and physical modeling, it was found that an increase of backwater by hydrometric structure reduces the influence of the upstream flow velocity profile and increases the reliability of water flow measurements.


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