{"title":"Design of a Turbopiston Pump Guided by Computational Analysis","authors":"Ting Wang, P. Rousset","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-10636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-10636","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 An innovative pump, TurboPiston Pump (TPP), has been invented to incorporate the merits of centrifugal, axial, and positive displacement pumps. The TPP is designed to deliver large flow rates with a potential at high pressure of up to 1000 psia with one stage. To improve the original design, an understanding of the flow behavior inside the pump is needed. The objective of this study is to simulate the flow field inside the pump and study its performance to guide the design process. This study includes modeling the pump with the transient sliding mesh scheme using a commercial computational fluid dynamics solver, ANSYS/FLUENT. The flow pattern, static pressure distribution, and total pressure losses are calculated and analyzed. The regions of high total pressure losses and potential creation of cavitation are identified. A plastic demonstration model and a metal prototype have been fabricated based on the result of the CFD analyis.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130205290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drag Reduction of Ground Vehicles Using Air-Injected Wheel Deflectors","authors":"Kaloki L. Nabutola, S. Boetcher","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-10454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-10454","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Numerical simulations of flow modification devices on a simplified ground vehicle are conducted. A parametric study on the size and distance upstream of conventional wheel deflectors is conducted on a simplified body at a Reynolds number of 1.6 × 105 to observe the impact on drag coefficient. Results show that wheel drag is decreased as the height of the conventional wheel deflector is increased. Additionally, the further the conventional wheel deflector is from the wheelhouse, the more sensitive the wheel is to changes in drag coefficient. The conventional wheel deflectors are then replaced by air-jets which are used to manipulate the flow field in and near the wheelhouse to reduce the wheel drag of the simplified body. The air-jet successfully decreases the wheel drag and it is observed that the closer the air-jet is to the wheelhouse the less impact it has on the single wheel drag, but the greater the impact on the overall drag of the simplified body.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114455127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finite Element Method for Fluid Flow in 3D Domains Containing Moving Interfaces","authors":"A. Mazumder","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-10016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-10016","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study presented a three-dimensional (3D) finite element method (FEM) for the numerical analysis of fluid flow in domains containing moving interfaces. This method falls into the general category of Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) method; based on a fixed mesh that is locally adapted at the moving interfaces and reverts to its original shape once the moving interfaces go over the elements. The 3D domain occupied by the fluid at any time in the simulation is used as the reference domain and is discretized using a mesh of hexahedral tri-linear isoparametric finite elements. The moving interfaces are defined by sets of marker points so that the global mesh is independent of interface movement and eliminates the possibility of mesh entanglement. The mesh never becomes unsuitable due to its continuous deformation, thus eliminating the need for repeated re-meshing and interpolation. A validation is presented via a problem with an analytical solution for the 3D flow between two planes separating at a prescribed speed that shows second order accuracy. The model’s capabilities are illustrated through application to laminar incompressible flows in different geometrical settings that show the flexibility of the technique.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128512833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hani AlHasni, Ona Thornquist, Shafquat Islam, P. Garrison, I. Sahin
{"title":"Hydrodynamic Coefficients for an Extraterrestrial Submarine","authors":"Hani AlHasni, Ona Thornquist, Shafquat Islam, P. Garrison, I. Sahin","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-10257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-10257","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 An autonomous submarine design was proposed as part of NASA’s NIAC program to explore the hydrocarbon seas of Titan, the Saturnian moon, and study its hydrological cycle. The submarine is to be capable of operating at both the surface and in a deeply-submerged mode. This study aims to complement and compare previous CFD simulations with results obtained using the panel code CMARC. The comparison is of interest as the previous studies included a grid-based viscous code and a particle method using smoothed-particle hydrodynamics. The previous approaches encountered difficulties in obtaining agreeable results as each method has flow regimes suitable for a specific formulation, specifically free-surface flow versus a deeply submerged case. The panel formulation presented here is for the deeply submerged configuration and results match well with other approaches and parametric analyses, particularly when appendages are included in the modeling.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"411 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134500437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicholas Stanley, Ashley Ciero, W. Timms, Rodward L. Hewlin
{"title":"Development of 3-D Printed Optically Clear Rigid Anatomical Vessels for Particle Image Velocimetry Analysis in Cardiovascular Flow","authors":"Nicholas Stanley, Ashley Ciero, W. Timms, Rodward L. Hewlin","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-11649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-11649","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In recent years, blood flow analysis of diseased arterial mock vessels using particle image velocimetry (PIV) has been hampered by the inability to fabricate optically clear anatomical vessel models that realistically replicate the complex morphology of arterial vessels and provide highly resolved flow images of flow tracer particles. The aim of the present work is to introduce an approach for producing optically clear rigid anatomical models that are suitable for PIV analysis using a common 3-D SLA inkjet printing process (using a Formlabs Form 2 3-D printer) and stock clear resin (RS-F2-GPCL-04). By matching the index of refraction (IOR) of the working fluid to the stock clear resin material, and by printing the part in a 45-degree print orientation, a clear anatomical model that allows clear visualization of flow tracer particles can be produced which yields highly resolved flow images for PIV analyses. However, a 45-degree print orientation increases the need for post processing due to an increased amount of printed support material. During post processing, the part must be wet sanded in several steps and surface finished with Novus Plastic Polish 3 Step System to achieve the final surface finish needed to yield high quality flow images. The fabrication methodology of the clear anatomical models is described in detail.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125538162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anas M. Alwatban, Ahmed M. Alshwairekh, U. Alqsair, Robert Krysko, Abdullah A. Alghafis, A. Oztekin
{"title":"The Effect of the Embedded Spacers on the Performance of Direct Contact Membrane Distillation System Operating With Different Inlet Feed Temperature","authors":"Anas M. Alwatban, Ahmed M. Alshwairekh, U. Alqsair, Robert Krysko, Abdullah A. Alghafis, A. Oztekin","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-10723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-10723","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Computational fluid dynamics simulations are used to model the effect of the inlet feed temperature in direct contact membrane distillation modules. Embedded spacers are used as a local mixing promoter tool. Net-type spacers of angle 45° are used as spacers. The presence of the spacers will mitigate the temperature and concentration polarization effects. The calculation of the vapor flux through the membrane is based on the Dusty-Gas model. The membrane is considered as a functional surface, and the embedded spacers are treated as impermeable surfaces. The vapor flux equation couples the variation of the vapor flux in the feed and the permeate channel with the variation of the feed concentration along the membrane. The flow is considered turbulent in channels containing embedded spacers. The k–ω SST turbulent model is used to characterize the steady-state turbulent structures inside the flow channels. The flow rate in the feed and the permeate channels is fixed. The membrane properties are also fixed. The inlet feed temperature is varying while fixing the inlet permeate temperature. The results indicate that the embedded spacers increase the vapor flux permeation while the temperature and concentration polarizations are mitigated. As the inlet feed temperature is increased, the effect of the embedded spacers becomes more significant.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125591547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of Eddy-Viscosity Turbulence Models on Flow in a Wheelhouse","authors":"Kaloki L. Nabutola, S. Boetcher","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-10453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-10453","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Six different turbulence models were used to simulate the flow within the wheelhouse of a simplified body. The performance of each model was evaluated by comparing the results to data collected from wind tunnel experiments. The performance of large eddy simulation (LES) and detached eddy simulation (DES) is largely dependent on the time step and grid size to accurately resolve turbulent eddies. The standard k–ω and k–ω SST models deviated the most from the experimental data. The standard k–ε model was found to produce the most consistent results which matched experimental data for the simplified body and wheel.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122651559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Impingement Surface Velocity on Slot Jet and Slot Jet Reattachment Nozzles’ Flow Field","authors":"M. Farzad, J. Yagoobi","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-11404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-11404","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Slot jet reattachment (SJR) nozzle is developed in an attempt to enhance heat and mass transfer characteristics while effectively controlling the impingement surface force exerted by the jet flow. In the SJR nozzle, the jet is directed outward from the nozzle exit and it then reattaches on an adjacent surface in its vicinity. The turbulent mixing occurs at the boundaries of the free stream induces secondary flow by mass entrainment and causes the flow to reattach the surface in the form of an oval reattachment at close nozzle to surface spacing [1].\u0000 All the previous studies had considered a stationary reattachment surface. This paper, for the first time, investigates the impact of reattachment surface movement on the flow structure of SJR nozzle with three different exit angles of +45°, +20°, and +10°. Specifically, this numerical study is carried out by varying the surface-to-jet velocity ratio (u* = up/ue) from 0 to 1.5 and comparing of flow reattachment flow fields to those of a regular slot jet (SJ) nozzle, where up is the speed of reattachment surface (moving plate) and ue is the jet exit velocity. In this study, jet exit temperature is kept constant at the room temperature of 20°C and all comparisons were performed at the same Reynolds number of 7,900. Additionally, the effect of SJR air exit angle on the peak surface pressure is investigated.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127217296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Dunn, Luis G. Enriquez, J. Godinez, M. Moore, Xiuling Wang, Chenn Q. Zhou
{"title":"Numerical and Experimental Study of an FSAE Intake Manifold","authors":"C. Dunn, Luis G. Enriquez, J. Godinez, M. Moore, Xiuling Wang, Chenn Q. Zhou","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-11462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-11462","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Formula SAE (FSAE) is an international student engineering competition that allows students to design, manufacture and race a formula-style race car to compete with other universities. This season the Purdue University Northwest (PNW) Formula SAE Team required a means of evaluating potential performance characteristics and optimizing future design concepts for the intake manifold system prior to manufacturing, to reduce the overall time and cost. The air intake system is a critical powertrain system component that requires numerical study and experimentation to validate any meaningful design. Without simulation and testing, an efficient intake may only be designed by chance.\u0000 This project focused on replicating the characteristic flow behavior witnessed in the 2017–2018 PNW FSAE intake system using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software named STAR-CCM+. A 3D printed test model was manufactured and tested on a flow bench to gather boundary conditions and pressure data from multiple locations within the intake manifold. The physical testing results of the 2017–2018 intake system were with the CFD results in order to validate the simulation models.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130141625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Magnetic-Based Particle Tracking in a Dense Granular Shear Flow","authors":"Xingtian Tao, Huixuan Wu","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-10652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-10652","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Granular material is ubiquitous in nature and plays a significant role in industry. Researchers have paid a lot of attention to density and velocity distributions of dense granular flows. However, the motion of individual particle is hard to capture because visualizing individual particles in a dense granular flow, especially in 3D, is very difficult and could be expansive. Here we use the magnetic particle tracking (MPT) technique to capture the motion of a single particle in a sheared dense granular flow. The accuracy of MPT is quantified using experimental results. The sheared granular flow is generated in a Couette cell by rotating a plate at the bottom of a cylinder container. It is able to generate different shear stresses by controlling the speed of the plate. By tracking the magnetic particle in the cylinder, we can capture the velocity of an individual particle at different locations in the granular flow.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121136884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}