Rapid Multiphase Flow Dynamics Mapped by Single‐Shot MRI Velocimetry

A new, fast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method is described and applied to map flow fields in systems with internal velocities rapidly varying along the streamlines. While conventional MRI techniques encode the velocity information in a preparatory period prior to the imaging acquisition module, our technique repeatedly refreshes the velocity encoding during a single‐shot imaging sequence. In this way, the maximum acceleration responsible for velocity variation of the molecules is increased by up to two orders of magnitude compared to standard procedures. Besides being compatible with high acceleration, this pulse sequence is suited to acquiring in a single scan the multiple velocity images required to construct a full velocity vector map. The power of this new methodology is demonstrated by following the internal dynamics of toluene droplets levitating in a counterflow of water during mass transfer of acetone from the water phase into the drop in the presence of surface‐active impurities. The dramatic reduction in measurement time allows visualization for the first time of the important impact of even small concentrations of acetone on accumulation of surfactants at the drop’s surface.     

基于0.18μm CMOS工艺的环形行波振荡器

环形行波振荡器（rotary traveling-wave oscillators, RTWOs）是近年提出的一种基于传输线的新型千兆赫兹时钟生成技术,但研究表明该技术同样适用于压控振荡器设计。与普通LC振荡电路不同,环形行波振荡器可以很方便地产生幅度一致的差分多相（360o）振荡信号。本文基于SMIC 0.18μm CMOS工艺设计实现了一个工作于5.8GHz频段的环形行波振荡器,文中同时给出了仿真结果和测试结果。芯片大小为1.5×1.5 mm2。测试结果表明环形行波振荡器实际振荡频率为5.285GHz,相应输出功率6.68dBm,距离载波1MHz处相位噪声为-102dBc/Hz。     

射流影响下气固两相流动试验的定量分析

为了研究受限空间内的射流影响下的气固两相流动,本文采用数码颗粒图像测速仪（DpIV）系统测量颗粒分布,并开发了一套用于处理DPIV颗粒图片的算法,可用于准确地定量分析通道内的颗粒分布。使用该算法能够获得颗粒在拍摄平面内的二维相对浓度数据,定量分析该数据发现,在同样的流场条件下,射流对气流场和不同粒径颗粒的影响区域存在明...     

一种测量多相流流型的ECT图像重建算法

提出了一种新的电容层析成像图像重建算法-IMNSNOF算法.该算法在分析极小范数解的基础之上针对ECT逆问题的特点对其进行改进,并利用奇异值分解定理证明这种改进的数值稳定作用.在此基础上建立新的日标泛函,并在求解该泛函的过程中采用正则技巧对其进行改进确保数值解的稳定性.利用非闭合电极ECT传感器实测了多相流沿流向的流型...     

内锥式流量计数值模拟及优化设计

多相流过程参数的准确测量在石油化工与冶金工业等工业过程中十分重要。内锥式流量计作为一种新型差压流量计在多相流测量中逐渐受到关注,它能在较短的直管段条件下对流体实现准确的测量,但其结构尚存在优化的空间,需进行深入研究。本文对传统内锥式流量计做结构变形和优化研究,利用计算流体力学(CFD)方法对DN50 mm水平管道中内锥变形体的流场进行数值模拟,分析在不同结构参数下锥体的水力特性以优化结构。数值仿真结果表明,综合内锥式流量计在取压点、永久压损及测量精确度等因素,优化后的结构可以显著降低永久压损,提高测量重复性和精确度。     

An evaluation of a 3D free‐energy‐based lattice Boltzmann model for multiphase flows with large density ratio

In this paper, the 3D Navier–Stokes (N–S) equation and Cahn–Hilliard (C–H) equations were solved using a free‐energy‐based lattice Boltzmann (LB) model. In this model, a LB equation with a D3Q19 velocity model is used to recover continuity and N–S equations while another LB equation with D3Q7 velocity model for solving C–H equation (Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, 2008; 56 :1653–1671) is applied to solve the 3D C–H equation. To avoid the excessive use of computational resources, a moving reference frame is adopted to allow long‐time simulation of a bubble rising. How to handle the inlet/outlet and moving‐wall boundary conditions are suggested. These boundary conditions are simple and easy for implementation. This model's performance on two‐phase flows was investigated and the mass conservation of this model was evaluated. The model is validated by its application to simulate the 3D air bubble rising in viscous liquid (density ratio is 1000). Good agreement was obtained between the present numerical results and experimental results when Re is small. However, for high‐Re cases, the mass conservation seems not so good as the low‐Re case. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Chaos,transport and mesh convergence for fluid mixing

Chaotic mixing of distinct fluids produces a convoluted structure to the interface separating these fluids. For miscible fluids （as considered here）, this interface is defined as a 50% mass concentration isosurface. For shock wave induced （Richtmyer-Meshkov） instabilities, we find the interface to be increasingly complex as the computational mesh is refined. This interfacial chaos is cut off by viscosity, or by the computational mesh if the Kolmogorov scale is small relative to the mesh. In a regime of converged interface statistics, we then examine mixing, i.e. concentration statistics, regularized by mass diffusion. For Schmidt numbers significantly larger than unity, typical of a liquid or dense plasma, additional mesh refinement is normally needed to overcome numerical mass diffusion and to achieve a converged solution of the mixing problem. However, with the benefit of front tracking and with an algorithm that allows limited interface diffusion, we can assure convergence uniformly in the Schmidt number. We show that different solutions result from variation of the Schmidt number. We propose subgrid viscosity and mass diffusion parameterizations which might allow converged solutions at realistic grid levels.     

Prediction of liquid level distribution in horizontal gas-liquid stratified flows with interfacial level gradient

A one-dimensional momentum equation has been derived based on a two-fluid model and used to predict the axial distribution of liquid level or void fraction in steady, cocurrent, gas-liquid stratified flows in horizontal circular pipes and rectangular channels. The equation is carefully formulated to incorporate the effect of interfacial level gradient. Two different critical liquid levels are found from the momentum equation and are adopted as a boundary condition to calculate the liquid level or void fraction distribution upstream of the channel exit. The predicted void fraction distributions are compared with the experimental data obtained in a rectangular channel in this work and other data reported for large-diameter pipes. Good agreement is shown for air-kerosene, air-water and stream-water stratified flows with a smooth gas-liquid interface.     

Mehrphasige Finite Elemente in der Verformungs- und Versagensanalyse grob mehrphasiger Werkstoffe

Übersicht Zur Simulation des elastoplastischen Verformungsverhaltens und von Versagensprozessen in grob mehrphasigen Materialien verwenden wir die Methode der Mehrphasigen Finiten Elemente. Der Verzicht auf die ausschließliche Verwendung einphasiger Finiter Elemente gestattet die spannungs-/Dehnungsanalyse an komplizierten Realgefügen. Die vorgestellten Beispiele für Verformungs- und Versagensanalysen stellen die Leistungsfähigkeit der Methode der Mehrphasigen Finiten Elemente hinsichtlich Modellieraufwand, Konvergenz und Zuverlässigkeit der Resultate unter Beweis.

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Heat Transport in Unsaturated Zone Thermal Energy Storage – Analysis with Two-Phase and Single-Phase Models

We analyze a field experiment where ambient air is injected into the soil during the summer and extracted again during the winter. A multiphase model accounting for the conductive transport as well as the convective transport with the moving liquid and gas phases is used along with a more simplified single-phase model where the convective transport is due to the gas alone. The latter model also accounts for subzero wintertime temperatures. The multiphase model captures well both the seasonal variations and the actual test sequence, the main calibration being in the adjustment of medium permeabilities based on the observed pressure responses. The effect of the injection pump on the temperature and humidity of the injection air needs to be known accurately. Taking into account the humidity of the injection air explicitly instead of using humidity-corrected enthalpy values also has an effect. The effect of various humidity and specific enthalpy assumptions is of the order of 1–1.5°C, while ignoring the wintertime subzero temperatures has an effect of 1–2°C. These differences are of the same order of magnitude as the heterogeneity-introduced differences in field data. Using the simplified single-phase model typically appears to cause a difference of 1–2°C, but can yield an even higher deviation of the order of 3–4°C.