Comparison of turbulence models in simulating swirling pipe flows

Swirling flow is a common phenomenon in engineering applications. A numerical study of the swirling flow inside a straight pipe was carried out in the present work with the aid of the commercial CFD code fluent. Two-dimensional simulations were performed, and two turbulence models were used, namely, the RNG k–ε model and the Reynolds stress model. Results at various swirl numbers were obtained and compared with available experimental data to determine if the numerical method is valid when modeling swirling flows. It has been shown that the RNG k–ε model is in better agreement with experimental velocity profiles for low swirl, while the Reynolds stress model becomes more appropriate as the swirl is increased. However, both turbulence models predict an unrealistic decay of the turbulence quantities for the flows considered here, indicating the inadequacy of such models in simulating developing pipe flows with swirl.     

Extreme event detection in near-wall turbulence using reflection-encoded readout of micropillar arrays

A method is presented which uses the intensity-based encoding of deflection of micropillars to detect criticical events in near-wall turbulence. The pillars are tailored to respond only to the streamwise or the spanwise component of the wall-shear stress with larger deflection. Light reflected from the side-walls of these structures is used to dected certain events in the flow that run along the wall. Examples are given for defined disturbances in a planar Couette flow. (© 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Analytical solution of coupled soil erosion and consolidation equations by asymptotic expansion approach

In this work, one-dimensional approximation of internal erosion taking place in a soil made from sand and clay mixture was considered. The clay phase that is susceptible to experience erosion under water flow discharge was assumed to be small. A new erosion law fixing the initiation threshold of erosion and integrating the effect of soil consolidation on internal erosion was proposed. Conversely, the effect of erosion on elastic soil deformation was also integrated through damage mechanics concepts. Asymptotic expansion of the coupled equations in terms of a perturbation parameter linked to the total amount of internal erosion that is likely to occur has been performed. This has enabled to view the internal erosion phenomenon occurring inside the soil as a perturbation affecting the classical soil consolidation equation, and further to evaluate the critical discharge gradient for which internal erosion starts. Equations at order zero that are provided by the asymptotic expansion were exactly integrated while an adequate finite difference scheme was introduced to solve the equations at order one. A parametric study was conducted after that in order to assess effects of the main factors on internal erosion and soil deformation.     

Buoyant Poiseuille–Couette flow with viscous dissipation in a vertical channel

Steady combined forced and free convection is investigated in a vertical channel having a wall at rest and a moving wall subjected to a prescribed shear stress. The moving wall is thermally insulated, while the wall at rest is kept at a uniform temperature. The analysis deals with the fully–developed parallel flow regime. The governing equations yield a boundary value problem, that is solved analytically by employing a power series expansion of the velocity field with respect to the transverse coordinate. It is shown that the nonlinear interplay between buoyancy and viscous dissipation may determine the existence of dual solutions of the boundary value problem corresponding to fixed values of the applied shear stress on the moving wall and of the hydrodynamic pressure gradient. It is shown that a nontrivial fully separated flow may occur such that the hydrodynamic pressure gradient is zero and the shear stress vanishes on both walls. E. Magyari: On leave from Institute of Building Technology, ETH – Zürich     

Applying a non-equilibrium wall function in k–ε turbulent modelling of hydrodynamic circulating flow

Wall bounded flow with severe adverse pressure, separation, reattachment and stagnation has non-equilibrium (NE) exhibition. A wall function in turbulent flow is a remedy to avoid resolving near wall complex phenomena using predetermined functions as boundary conditions. The advantage of this case is permission to use a relatively coarse near wall cells and hence saving CPU time. Standard wall function (SWF) is a semi-empirical function that is just valid for constant shear near wall cell and local equilibrium flow. Popovac and Hanjalic introduced a non-equilibrium wall function as (PWF) with a blending method in v²–f model. To investigate PWF in circulating flow, standard k–ε model that has key role in complex and expensive industrial problems is used in this study. The approach derived by Popovac and Hanjalic retains the functional form of the SWF and can be easily implemented in existing code. Simulation results are validated against direct numerical simulation (DNS) on channel and experimental data on backward facing step (BS) and a sharp U bend flow. Prediction with PWF shows that use of this wall function in k–ε model has not any sensitive change in near equilibrium flow. However, produces an improvement in NE conditions like flow in circulation zones.     

Special finite elements including stress concentration effects of a hole

Special finite elements are developed for efficient evaluation of stress concentration around a hole in complex structures. The complex variable formulation is used to derive a special set of stress functions which embody the stress concentration effects of a hole. The stress functions in combination with an independent displacement field assumed along the element boundary are used to construct the special elements with the hybrid displacement finite element method. Several numerical examples are presented to show that the used of special finite elements to model critical regions around a hole, together with conventional finite elements to model other regions away from the hole, is not only very convenient but also highly accurate.     

圆截面螺旋管道内非定常流动研究

以血液流动为背景,利用双参数摄动法研究了圆截面螺旋管内低频振荡流动,得到问题的二阶摄动解,分析了轴向速度、二次流、壁面剪应力在不同时刻的特点及随时间和Womersley数的变化情况。研究表明:挠率对圆截面曲线管道内低频振荡流动的影响不可忽略,尤其是轴向压力梯度绝对值很小时,挠率将对二次流动结构起主要影响作用。流函数的剧烈变化只发生在正、负数值发生转变的很小的时间段内,大部分时间段内变化平缓。壁面剪应力随θ的变化也很大。     

Convexity conditions and normal structure of Banach spaces

We prove that F-convexity, the property dual to P-convexity of Kottman, implies uniform normal structure. Moreover, in the presence of the WORTH property, normal structure follows from a weaker convexity condition than F-convexity. The latter result improves the known fact that every uniformly nonsquare space with the WORTH property has normal structure.     

A GN model for thermoelastic interaction in an unbounded fiber-reinforced anisotropic medium with a circular hole

In this work, we have constructed the equations for generalized thermoelasticity of an unbounded fiber-reinforced anisotropic medium with a circular hole. The formulation is applied in the context of Green and Naghdi (GN) theory. The thermoelastic interactions are caused by (I) a uniform step in stress applied to the boundary of the hole with zero temperature change and (II) a uniform step in temperature applied to the boundary of the hole which is stress-free. The solutions for displacement, temperature and stresses are obtained with the help of the finite element procedure. The effects of the reinforcement on temperature, stress and displacement are studied. Results obtained in this work can be used for designing various fiber-reinforced anisotropic elements under mechanical or thermal load to meet special engineering requirements.     

A 3-dimensional Eulerian–Eulerian CFD simulation of a hydrocyclone

Hydrocyclones are used in mineral industries for classification and separation of solid particles of different sizes and densities suspended in water medium. In the present study an Eulerian–Eulerian CFD simulation of a solid–liquid hydrocyclone has been carried out taking into account two solid phases and one liquid phase. The average size of the larger particle was 0.6117 and that of the smaller particle was 0.09875 mm. Three separate momentum balance equations for the three phases have been considered unlike that in the mixture model where a single momentum equation is solved for the three phases. Two turbulent models i.e. the Reynolds stress model (RSM) and the standard k–ε model were studied. Comparison of the two turbulence models showed slight variation in prediction of the velocity profile and the separation efficiency. The maximum deviation between the two models was observed near the wall where the stress was maximum for larger size particles.     

q-Taylor and interpolation series for Jackson q-difference operators

We prove q-Taylor series for Jackson q-difference operators. Absolute and uniform convergence to the original function are proved for analytic functions. We derive interpolation results for entire functions of q-exponential growth which is less than lnq⁻¹, 0<q<1, from its values at the nodes , a is a non-zero complex number with absolute and uniform convergence criteria.     

Γ-convergence and homogenization of functionals in Sobolev spaces with variable exponents

This paper is devoted to homogenization and minimization problems for variational functionals in the framework of Sobolev spaces with continuous variable exponents. We assume that the sequence of exponents converges in the uniform metric and that the Lagrangian has a periodic microstructure. Then under natural coerciveness assumptions we prove a Γ-convergence result and, as a consequence, the convergence of minimizers (solutions to the corresponding Euler equations).     

环空管内粘弹性流体不定常旋转流的解及流动特性分析

本文用Hankel积分变换法分别求得二阶流体和Maxwell流体在环管内不定常旋转流运动方程的解析解,据此可以分析环管内旋转速度和切应力的分布与变化特征;流体物性参数、管道环隙大小等参量在解析公式中有明确反映,便于定性分析和讨论,本解可以为钻探工程和高分子加工工艺的设计提供理论依据,另外还可用来分析双筒粘度计的流动状态和应力特征,拟合曲线,确定材料的粘弹性参数,在对这种流体进行特性分析时,我们发现,Maxwell流体的旋转流动在起动初期表现为方波振荡,振动的幅度和周期随Ha(物质常数)的增大而增大,此种现象还是首次发现,可能对实际应用有一定的意义。     

Micro diffuser flow modeling for cold gas propulsion systems

The use of highly diluted and hypersonic gas flow is in the scope of application of cold gas thrusters for space applications. Satellites and small spacecrafts are navigated to their orbital trajectory with these nozzles. Inside these propulsion systems high density gradients are dominating the efficiency and the thrust steering behavior of the propulsion systems. Micro flows in the transient regime between free molecular flow and continuous flow are not able to be computed with trustworthy results by using a continuous model with no-slip boundary conditions. Therefore boundary slip-velocity models are used for modeling the reduced wall shear stress. Molecular shear stresses decrease the molecular mean velocity near the wall. With a Knudsen number depending slip-velocity model the effective shear stress is computed by the mean gradient of the velocity profile near the wall. In the present study a trans-sonic nozzle flow is computed by using a calibrated velocity slip model what depends on the Knudsen number. The Knudsen numbers are lower the Kn=1 at the nozzle neck of the propulsion system. The results are compared with simulation results of a uniform channel flow and computations of the corresponding no-slip approach. The differences in the hypersonic region are following discussed. (© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

On the Gaussian q-distribution

We present a study of the Gaussian q-measure introduced by Díaz and Teruel from a probabilistic and from a combinatorial viewpoint. A main motivation for the introduction of the Gaussian q-measure is that its moments are exactly the q-analogues of the double factorial numbers. We show that the Gaussian q-measure interpolates between the uniform measure on the interval [−1,1] and the Gaussian measure on the real line.     

The effect of surface elasticity and residual surface stress in an elastic body with an elliptic nanohole

The deformation of an elastic plane with an elliptic hole in a uniform stress field is considered, taking into account the surface elasticity and the residual surface tension. The solution of the problem, based on the use of the linearized Gurtin–Murdoch surface elasticity relations and the complex Goursat–Kolosov potentials, is reduced to a singular integrodifferential equation. Using the example of a circular hole, for which an exact solution of the equation is obtained in closed form, the effect of the residual surface tension and the surface elasticity on the stress state close to and on the boundary of a nanohole is analysed for uniaxial tension. It is shown that the effect of the residual surface stress and the surface tension, due to deformation of the body, depends on the elastic properties of the surface, the value of the stretching load and the dimensions of the hole.     

Forced vibration of an initially stressed thick rectangular plate made of an orthotropic material with a cylindrical hole

The forced vibration of an initially statically stressed rectangular plate made of an orthotropic material is studied. The plate is simply supported along all its edges and contains an internal across-the-width cylindrical hole of rectangular cross section with rounded corners. The initial stresses are created by uniformly distributed normal forces applied to opposite end faces of the plate. Because of the hole, these stresses are not uniform in the plate and significantly affect the stress field caused by additional time-harmonic dynamical forces acting on the upper face of the plate. Hence, for solving the boundary-value problem considered, the superposition principle is unsuitable. Therefore, our investigations are carried out within the framework of the three-dimensional linearized theory of elastic waves in initially stressed bodies. The corresponding boundary- value problems on determining the initial and additional, dynamical stress states are solved by using the three-dimensional finite-element method. Numerical results on stress concentrations around the cylindrical hole and the fundamental frequencies, and on the influence of the initial stresses on the frequencies are presented.     

Different numerical methods in the study of passive scalar transport in a pipeline x-junction

A computational fluid dynamic model is used to analyze the transport processes of a passive scalar generated in the mixing of two fluids or flows in a pipeline x-junction. Turbulent flow field is computed for the merging of streams using two and three-dimensional simulations, which are achieved employing Cartesian coordinates, BFC and a cut cell method. These different numerical solving methods are compared. The numerical model is validated through an experimental set-up. Different parameters are measured for various operating conditions. The influence of the angle between pipe inlets is studied to establish the optimal condition in which the passive scalar concentration in both outlets is similar.     

横向剪变形对具有一小圆孔的浅壳应力集中系数的影响

本文导出了分析计及横向剪变形的浅壳小孔应力集中问题的简化方程.对浅球壳和圆柱壳带一小圆孔的情况,获得了方程的级数形式通解.对均匀内压作用下的圆柱壳,求得了小圆孔边上应力集中系数的近似显式解,并计算了数值结果.     

Drag reduction via spanwise transversal traveling waves of smooth and structured surfaces

The turbulent wall-shear stress can be influenced through passive and active means. The effect of combining active and passive methods is briefly analyzed using transversal traveling waves for the active method and riblets at an optimum spacing as a passive method. (© 2016 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)