刮膜蒸发器内非牛顿流体流场特性数值模拟

刮膜蒸发器是通过旋转刮板强制成膜,可实现高黏度非牛顿流体类物料平稳蒸发的新型高效蒸发器.蒸发器内流体的流动、分布与传输机制直接决定了蒸发器的蒸发效率与功耗.不同于现有研究主要基于牛顿流体开展,本文针对不同黏度的非牛顿流体,建立蒸发器三维计算流体动力学模型,系统研究了蒸发器内的流场分布特性和成膜机理.结果表明:低黏非牛顿流体的流场分布特性和牛顿流体类似,物料可在壁面形成均匀且连续的液膜;随着黏度的增加,液膜的均匀性和连续性逐渐变差.通过对流场分布与传输形式的研究,结合液膜分布、速度分布、剪应变率分布,以及黏度分布进行对比分析发现,蒸发器内部结构与运行状态形成的剪切场与黏度分布是蒸发器良好成膜的关键.此外,提出对刮板前缘进行弯折可辅助高黏流体液膜铺展,并对最佳弯折角度进行探索.本研究为刮膜蒸发器的设计和应用提供了理论指导与依据.     

基于格子Boltzmann方法的幂律流体二维顶盖驱动流转捩研究

研究非牛顿流体转捩问题,可为调控非牛顿流体动力特性提供理论基础.相对于牛顿流体转捩问题,非牛顿流体转捩研究较少,缺乏转捩雷诺数精细预报方法.论文以格子Boltzmann方法为核心求解器,以典型非牛顿流体幂律模型为例,开展了幂律流体二维顶盖驱动流转捩模拟,给出剪切变稀和剪切增稠流体的第一转捩雷诺数,并分析了转捩雷诺数附近流场时频域特性及模态分布.结果表明,剪切变稀流体和剪切增稠流体的第一转捩雷诺数与牛顿流体差异显著,且在转捩临界雷诺数附近监控点处速度分量均呈现周期性变化趋势.通过对流场速度和涡量的本征正交分解发现,不同类型的流体在转捩临界雷诺数附近,前两阶模态均为流场的主模态,能量占比超过95%,且同类型流体不同雷诺数的主模态间具有相似的结构.     

平板型环路热管应用于LED的启动特性研究

本文将平板型环路热管应用于大功率LED的散热,通过实验研究了加热位置、放置方式和功率对启动特性的影响.蒸发器内的汽液分布影响着从蒸发器到补偿器的热泄漏,从而影响启动特性.如果非有效蒸发区内的液态工质量越多,则热泄漏越小,环路热管越容易启动.此外,补偿器内工质往液管流动,相当于补偿器对外做功,自身能量有减少的趋势,促使形成循环所需的更大压差.     

水平管降膜蒸发器管外液体流动数值模拟

水平管外液体成膜厚度是反映管外液体流动情况的重要参数之一.本文用数值模拟的方法,通过计算不同条件下的液膜厚度来研究冷态情况下水平管降膜蒸发器管外液体流动的影响凶素.计算结果表明:液体的初始流速和管间距对蒸发器底部蒸发管管外液体的流动影响比较明显,要增大整个降膜蒸发器中成柱状流的管排范围,需同时考虑流速及管间距的影响,且二者的变化对成柱状流的管排数的影响趋势相反.     

圆截面直流道中微粒黏弹性聚焦机理研究

微粒黏弹性聚焦技术近年来受到了广泛的研究重视, 但影响粒子聚焦特性的关键参数调控机理仍不清楚. 基于此目的, 本文量化研究了圆截面直流道中非牛顿流体诱导微粒黏弹性聚焦的行为, 给出了流速和流道长度对粒子聚焦特性的调控机理. 具体而言: 首先, 对比分析不同黏度牛顿流体(水和22 wt%甘油水溶液)和非牛顿流体(8 wt%聚乙烯吡咯烷酮水溶液)中粒子横向迁移行为, 发现非牛顿流体中粒子将在弹性力主导下聚焦至流道中心区域, 而牛顿流体中粒子则在惯性升力主导下迁移形成Segré-Silberberg圆环. 其次, 量化分析粒子尺寸和驱动流速对黏弹性聚焦效果的影响, 发现随着流速的增加, 粒子聚焦效果逐渐变好并最终趋于稳定, 且大粒子较小粒子具有更好的聚焦效果. 最后, 研究粒子沿流道长度的动态聚焦过程, 推导并验证了粒子聚焦所需安全流道长度的数学模型, 发现大粒子聚焦所需安全流道长度显著短于小粒子. 上述研究结果对于提升粒子黏弹性聚焦机理和过程的理解, 实现微粒聚焦特性的灵活控制具有非常重要的意义.     

制冷用水平管降膜蒸发器换热特性数值模拟

水平管降膜蒸发器相比满液式具有换热效率高、制冷剂充注量少等优点。文中采用分布参数法建立水平管降膜蒸发换热模型,应用MATLAB软件,对换热管在理想条件下的换热特性进行了数值模拟。研究了光管及Turbo-BII管在管外无干斑发生换热条件下,管外降膜蒸发换热系数、管内对流换热系数、总换热系数、热流密度、降膜蒸发因子、以及换热管单元换热量沿管长方向分布规律,并根据计算结果分析了管间距对换热的影响。该研究为应用于制冷空调领域水平管降膜蒸发器的设计提供理论指导,促进其在制冷空调领域的推广应用。     

水平螺旋槽管壁面升膜形成机理的研究

对驱动升膜形成的润湿力进行分析,建立单组分流体的数学模型,得出壁面液膜蒸发时的速度和厚度分布。基于此得到蒸发过程中水平螺旋槽管管外壁升膜的形成机理和流动特性,并给出液膜润湿整个管壁面的临界条件。     

升膜式板式换热器的换热性能研究

升膜蒸发是在换热器表面形成一层薄液膜,薄膜蒸发能够强化换热。文中研究采用光滑铜板的板式升膜蒸发器,以去离子水作为介质,在不同进水流量、不同加热量(热流密度)下,测定换热器某些点的局部换热系数,计算出总的换热系数,研究影响板式换热器升膜蒸发的因素和变化趋势。     

纳米粗糙度对胶体液滴蒸发图案的影响机制

对比研究了Si O_2胶体液滴在光滑基底与纳米粗糙度基底上的蒸发及其图案形成.实验发现,在光滑基底上,液滴的蒸发伴有显著的"咖啡环效应",沉积图案呈现碗状.而在粗糙基底上蒸发后得到厚度分布较为均匀的蒸发图案,且裂纹密度明显增大.分析显示,纳米粗糙度可抑制液滴内沿基底的回流,极大地削弱了毛细流的补偿作用,导致颗粒在气-液界面富集并形成颗粒膜,从而克服了"咖啡环效应",最终形成厚度分部均匀的蒸发图案.     

水平管降膜蒸发器传热优化研究

基于分布参数方法,对大型制冷系统中的水平管外降膜蒸发进行了传热优化数值模拟计算.在计算中,分析了饱和的液态制冷剂R134a在水平的铜管束外流动蒸发的换热特性.模型考虑了不同的管子类型和2流程不同管程布置对蒸发器换热特性的影响,结果表明,蒸发器采用Turbo-EHP管的性能高于其它管;不同管程布置对蒸发器性能的影响比较大,其中,下进上出管程布置的换热性能优于其它管程布置.同时,本文考虑了传热管外"干斑"对换热的影响.本文结论对于大型制冷系统中的降膜蒸发器传热优化设计具有指导性意义.     

微扩张管道内幂律流体非定常电渗流动

研究了电渗驱动下幂律流体在有限长微扩张管道内非稳态流动特性.基于Ostwald-de Wael幂律模型,采用高精度紧致差分离散二维Poisson-Nernst-Planck方程及修正的Cauchy动量方程,数值模拟了初始及稳态时刻微扩张管道内幂律流体电渗流流场分布情况,研究了管道截面改变对幂律流体无量纲剪切应变率及无量纲表观黏度的影响,以及无量纲表观黏度对拟塑性流体与胀流型流体流速分布的影响.数值模拟结果显示,当扩张角和无量纲电动宽度一定时,电场驱动下的幂律流体在近壁区域速度响应都很快;初始时刻,近壁处表观黏度的变化受到剪切应变率变化的影响,从而影响了三种幂律流体速度峰值的分布,出现拟塑性流体流速在扩张段上游及扩张段近壁处速度峰值均为幂律流体中最大、而在扩张段下游三种幂律流体速度峰值相近的现象;稳态时刻,幂律流体速度剖面呈现塞型分布,且满足连续性条件下,幂律流体流速随扩张管半径增大而减小,牛顿流体流动规律与宏观尺度下流动规律相同;初始时刻,在相同电动宽度、不同壁面电势作用下,幂律流体在扩张管近壁处剪切应变率分布的差异导致表观黏度分布的差异,并最终导致拟塑性流体与胀流型流体流速分布的差异.     

An advected-field method for deformable entities under flow

We study dynamics of a deformable entity (such as a vesicles under hydrodynamical constraints). We show how the problem can be solved by means of Green's functions associated with the Stokes equations. A gauge-field invariant formulation makes the study of dynamics efficient. However, this procedure has its short-coming. For example, if the fluids are not Newtonian, then no Green's function is available in general. We introduce a new approach, the advected field one, which opens a new avenue of applications. For example, non-Newtonian entities can be handled without additional deal. In addition problems like budding, droplet break-up in suspensions, can naturally be treated without additional complication. We exemplify the method on vesicles filled by a fluid having a viscosity contrast with the external fluid, and submitted to a shear flow. We show that beyond a viscosity contrast (the internal fluid being more viscous), the vesicle undergoes a tumbling bifurcation, which has a saddle-node nature. This bifurcation is known for blood cells. Indeed red cells either align in a shear flow or tumble according to whether haematocrit concentration is high or low. Received 19 December 2001 / Received in final form 31 May 2002 Published online 2 October 2002 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: chaouqi.misbah@ujf-grenoble.fr     

Numerical study of the pulsatile flow depending on non-Newtonian viscosity in a stenosed microchannel

Considering the shear-thinning feature of blood viscosity, the characteristics of non-Newtonian fluids are important in pulsatile blood flows. Stenosis, with an abnormal narrowing of the vessel, blocks blood flow to downstream tissues and leads to plaque rupture. In smaller arteries of diameters up to a few hundred micrometers, such stenosis can result in severe consequences. Therefore, a systematic analysis of the blood flow around the stenosed microchannel is important. In this study, non-Newtonian behaviors of the blood flow around a microchannel of diameter 500 μm, with 60% severe stenosis, were examined using CFX under pulsatile flow condition, with a period of 1 s and Reynolds number of 14.025 at the systolic phase. The viscosity information of the two non-Newtonian samples and the used pulsatile profile were based on our previous study. For comparison, water at room temperature was used as the Newtonian fluid. During the pulsatile phase, wall shear stress (WSS) is highly oscillated. In the case of the water flow, the recirculation occurred downstream the stenosis. This recirculation made the vortex structures travel the longest and induced a low WSS distribution and rapid normalized pressure drop at downstream of the stenosis. Conversely, the non-Newtonian feature of viscosity made flow structures almost symmetric, with respect to the stenosis. However, the highly oscillating WSS enhances the tendency of plaque instability and damage to the endothelium. Our findings on the influence of blood viscosity on stenotic lesions may help clinicians understand relevant mechanisms.     

Measurement of the viscosity-density product using multiple reflections of ultrasonic shear horizontal waves

We have developed an on-line computer-controlled sensor, based on ultrasound reflection measurements, to determine the product of the viscosity and density of a liquid or slurry for Newtonian fluids and the shear impedance of the liquid for non-Newtonian fluids. A 14 MHz shear wave transducer is bonded to one side of a 45-90 degrees fused silica wedge and the base is in contract with the liquid. Twenty-eight echoes were observed due to the multiple reflections of an ultrasonic shear horizontal (SH) wave within the wedge. The fast Fourier transform of each echo was obtained for a liquid and for water, which serves as the calibration fluid, and the reflection coefficient at the solid-liquid interface was obtained. Data were obtained for 11 sugar water solutions ranging in concentration from 10% to 66% by weight. The viscosity values are shown to be in good agreement with those obtained independently using a laboratory viscometer. The data acquisition time is 14s and this can be reduced by judicious selection of the echoes for determining the reflection coefficient. The measurement of the density results in a determination of the viscosity for Newtonian fluids or the shear wave velocity for non-Newtonian fluids. The sensor can be deployed for process control in a pipeline, with the base of the wedge as part of the pipeline wall, or immersed in a tank.     

Flow of a non-Newtonian fluid

The objective of the present study is to calculate flows of a non-Newtonian fluid in a plane channel. An exact solution that determines the distribution of the fluid velocity in the transverse cross section of the channel is obtained under certain conditions concerning the dependence of viscosity on the velocity gradient. It is shown that this distribution differs substantially from a parabolic profile of a Newtonian fluid. It is indicated that, in the flow of a non-Newtonian fluid, its special features never disappear-only the region of a non-Newtonian flow shrinks, becoming localized in the vicinity of the velocity maximum.     

Cooperative shear model for the rheology of glass-forming metallic liquids

A rheological law based on the concept of cooperatively sheared flow zones is presented, in which the effective thermodynamic state variable controlling flow is identified to be the isoconfigurational shear modulus of the liquid. The law captures Newtonian as well as non-Newtonian viscosity data for glass-forming metallic liquids over a broad range of fragility. Acoustic measurements on specimens deformed at a constant strain rate correlate well with the measured steady-state viscosities, hence verifying that viscosity has a unique functional relationship with the isoconfigurational shear modulus.     

The inertial dynamics of thin film flow of non-Newtonian fluids

Consider the flow of a thin layer of non-Newtonian fluid over a solid surface. I model the case where the viscosity depends nonlinearly on the shear-rate; power law fluids are an important example, but the analysis here is for general nonlinear dependence. The modelling allows for large changes in film thickness provided the changes occur over a relatively large enough lateral length scale. Modifying the surface boundary condition for tangential stress forms an accessible foundation for the analysis where flow with constant shear is a neutral critical mode, in addition to a mode representing conservation of fluid. Perturbatively removing the modification then constructs a model for the coupled dynamics of the fluid depth and the lateral momentum. For example, the results model the dynamics of gravity currents of non-Newtonian fluids when the flow is not creeping.     

Ultrasonic atomization: effect of liquid phase properties

Experiments have been conducted to understand the mechanism by which the ultrasonic vibration at the gas liquid interface causes the atomization of liquid. For this purpose, aqueous solutions having different viscosities and liquids showing Newtonian (aqueous solution of glycerin) and non-Newtonian behavior (aqueous solution of sodium salt of carboxy methyl cellulose) were employed. It has been found that the average droplet size produced by the pseudo-plastic liquid is less than that produced by the viscous Newtonian liquid having viscosity equal to zero-shear rate viscosity of the shear thinning liquid. The droplet size was found to increase initially with an increase in the viscosity up to a certain threshold viscosity after which the droplet size was found to decrease again. Also droplet size distribution is found to be more compact (uniform sizes) with an increasing viscosity of the atomizing liquid. The presence of the cavitation and its effect on the atomization has been semi quantitatively confirmed using energy balance and by the measurement of the droplet ejection velocities and validated on the basis of the decomposition of the aqueous KI solution. A correlation has been proposed for the prediction of droplet size for aqueous Newtonian fluids and fluids showing non-Newtonian behavior based on the dimensionless numbers incorporating the operating parameters of the ultrasonic atomizer and the liquid phase physico-chemical properties.     

Correlation between flow characteristics and interfacial friction behaviour of a Zr-based metallic glass during micro-extrusion

The interfacial friction behaviour of Zr₃₅Ti₃₀Be_26.75Cu_8.25 metallic glass during micro-extrusion was investigated at various strain rates and temperatures in the supercooled liquid region. A friction mechanism map that distributes adhesion regime, furrow regime and mechanical engagement regime was constructed. These regimes respectively correspond to Newtonian flow, non-Newtonian flow and inhomogeneous flow by comparing with the typical deformation map. The correlation between flow characteristics and interfacial friction behaviour is well analysed by combining the viscosity theory with the finite-element simulations.