Anomalous flow at the inlet of pitot tubes in dilute polymer solutions part II

Summary Some correlations are presented of experimental data, which mainly concern the transition from normal to anomalous flow at the inlet of Pitot tubes in dilute polymer solutions.Such transition is associated with the onset of pressure defect, and reveals some aspects of statistical regularity; when the polymer solution is fresh, it happens at a given value of the ratio of flow velocity to Pitot tube diameter v/d, and it seems not dependent or only slightly dependent on the diameter value alone. But the aging of the solution enhances the importance of the diameter value, and the transition value of v/d increases in a different way for different diameters, more quickly in the case of the bigger ones.This behaviour together with the observation that the viscosity does not affect significantly the phenomenon, brings the authors to confirm that such solutions cannot be considered as a viscoelastic continuum, but as a fluid with a structure due to large associations of water molecules and macromolecules, whose linear dimension is significant with respect to the probe diameter.

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Sommario Vengono presentate alcune correlazioni fra i dati sperimentali che riguardano essenzialmente la transizione da flusso normale a flusso anomalo in prossimità ed all'interno della bocca dei tubi di Pitot immersi in soluzioni diluite di polimeri.La transizione è associata alla genesi del recupero incompleto di pressione e presenta caratteri di regolarità in senso statistico; con soluzioni fresche si ha transizione mediamente attorno ad un dato valore del rapporto v/d tra la velocità del flusso ed il diametro del Pitot, in modo indipendente o scarsamente dipendente dal valore del solo diametro.Ma, invecchiando la soluzione, anche il valore del diametro in sè rivela influenza, poiché il valore relativo alla transizione del rapporto v/d cresce più rapidamente per i diametri più grandi. Questo comportamento, assieme alla constatazione che la viscosità non ha influenza rilevante sul fenomeno, conduce a confermare che queste soluzioni non possono essere ritenute un continuo visco-elastico, ma piuttosto un fluido strutturato da larghe associazioni di molecole di acqua e macromolecole, con una dimensione lineare non insignificante in confronto al diametro del Pitot.

     

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