{"title":"An Assessment of the Validity of Quasi-Steady Analysis of Pressure Relief Valves","authors":"Christopher Doyle, W. Dempster, S. Taggart","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-10607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-10607","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this paper, the validity of the commonly used quasi-steady design approach to pressure relief valves (PRV) is examined by comparing detailed steady state conditions of valve behavior directly with transient conditions. To achieve this, a PRV conforming to ASME VIII standards was modelled using the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) package ANSYS FLUENT to account for transient fluid-structure interaction processes. Detailed steady state CFD simulations were conducted using quasi-steady assumptions and compared to high fidelity transient moving mesh simulations to allow the piston forces to be examined. The results indicated that noticeably different magnitudes can occur between steady state and transient simulations; highlighting the possibility of significant differences occurring between quasi steady designed valves and their ultimate performance. In this paper, a single operating condition is examined, using air at 10.3 barg, for a 5231BX refrigeration valve supplied by the Henry Group to highlight the main issues. Analysis has indicated that the differences in performance are generated by temporal, short lived vortices at the piston surface which influences the bulk flow features as the disc accelerates and decelerates; altering the net disc forces when compared to steady state conditions.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"110 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":"127993553","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":"CFD Analysis of Reversed Installation on Flow Measurements by a Plate Orifice","authors":"D. Zheng, Haibo Ma, A. Silaen, Chenn Q. Zhou","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-10620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-10620","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The accidental reversal installation of an orifice plate could occur during maintenance operations and a long time may have elapsed before being noticed. The reversal installation can result in a significant mismeasurement of flow in a pipe. In the paper, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model has been developed to simulate the pressure and velocity distribution in a pipe with the correct and the reversed installation of an orifice plate. The results shown that there is a significant difference between the correct and reversed installation in terms of pressure. Using the CFD pressure drop results for flows in both installations, an estimate correlation between those installations was found. This result provides the method to solve the issue about the accidental reversal of an orifice plate using a correction factor.","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":"131202823","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}
U. Alqsair, Anas M. Alwatban, Ahmed M. Alshwairekh, Robert Krysko, Abdullah A. Alghafis, A. Oztekin
{"title":"The Effect of Mixing Promotors on Sweeping Gas Membrane Distillation System Performance","authors":"U. Alqsair, Anas M. Alwatban, Ahmed M. Alshwairekh, Robert Krysko, Abdullah A. Alghafis, A. Oztekin","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-10727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-10727","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Computational fluid dynamics simulations were conducted to model the effect of adding mixing promoters in sweeping gas membrane distillation modules. Net-type spacers of 45° are placed in the feed side while membrane corrugation is employed with the tips of the corrugation pointing towards the permeate side. The membrane corrugation is of chevron type. The membrane is considered as a functional surface, and the vapor flux through the membrane is modeled using the Dusty-Gas model. The vapor flux equation couples the vapor pressure variation across the membrane with the feed concentration. The flow inside the channels with mixing promoters is considered turbulent. The k–ω SST turbulent model is used to model the steady-state turbulent structures inside the channels. The flow rate in the feed side is fixed, and the flow rate in the permeate channel is varied so that Rep = 1000,1500, and 2000 are considered. The inlet feed and permeate temperatures, and the membrane properties are fixed. The results indicate that the presence of mixing promoters increases the vapor permeation through the membrane by alleviation of the concentration and temperature polarization effects. The mixing promoters are more effective at high flow rates in both channels.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"378 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":"133174571","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}
Gurjap Singh, E. Lopes, Nicholas Hentges, A. Ratner
{"title":"Experimental Investigation of Water Emulsion Fuel Stability","authors":"Gurjap Singh, E. Lopes, Nicholas Hentges, A. Ratner","doi":"10.1115/IMECE2019-10258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2019-10258","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The combustion of liquid fuels emulsified with water have long generated interest in the internal combustion engine research community. Typically, these fuels consist of small quantities of water emulsified with ultrasonification or other mechanical methods into a pure or multicomponent hydrocarbon fuel. These emulsion fuels promise significant advantages over base liquid fuels, such as better fuel economy, colder combustion temperatures, less NOx emissions, and so on. However, a significant practical disadvantage of these fuels is that they are prone to phase separation after they have been prepared. Till date, an objective but economical method of identifying the various degrees of phase separation has not been identified. Present research presents such a method and shows its utilization in analyzing the stability of water and hydrocarbon fuel emulsions over time without the addition of chemical stabilizers. It is expected that present research will pave the way in establishing this method to study the stability of other specialized multicomponent fluids.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"86 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":"123969894","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":"Application of a Hybrid RANS-LES Method to Free Shear Layers","authors":"P. Catalano","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-10618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-10618","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper presents the application of the XLES (eXtra Large Eddy Simulation) method to relevant test-cases. The mixing between two boundary layers and between a wake and a boundary layer are discussed. The first test case considers the mixing layer that forms at the end of a splitting plate. Two boundary layers with different free-stream velocities flow on the upper and lower side of a flat plate and join at the trailing edge forming a free shear layer. The second test case represents a mixing between the 2-D wake originating downstream an airfoil and the 2-D boundary layer developing over a flat plate placed beneath the airfoil. This application is representative of flows over multi-element configurations where the wake coming from the slat merges with the boundary layer of the main component. The method has shown to be effective reducing the modelled turbulence and providing resolved turbulence in the regions of the field treated in LES mode. The “grey-area” issue has been highlighted. This is likely connected to the stochastic character of the model.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"10 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":"123826704","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":"Pressure Drop in Circular Two-Phase Pipe Flow As Influenced by the Angle of Inclination","authors":"B. Worl, S. Nielson, Xiuling Wang","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-11352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-11352","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A variety of models exist to describe the frictional pressure drop for two-phase flow in a pipe. These models all are based on assumptions and simplifications of the flow regime and can experience difficulty when modeling flow through non-horizontal pipes due to the buoyant effects as the bubbles grow in size. Using computational fluid dynamics, it is possible to model the interaction between the two phases and determine an expected pressure drop. In order to evaluate the effect of the inclination angle of a channel, a parametric study will be conducted using ANSYS Fluent; these predicted pressure drops will then be compared to those found in literature for validation and then to other theoretical pressure drop calculations. Through this study, the benefits of both the theoretical framework and the numerical simulation will be identified.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"24 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":"128674109","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":"Modeling and Analysis of Noise Barrier Shape Effects on Highway Automobiles Emission Dispersion","authors":"Shaoguang Wang, Xiuling Wang","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-11355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-11355","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Noise barriers are common configurations along highways. They are originally designed to impede and absorb the noise from vehicles on highways. Recent research has suggested that noise barriers have significant impacts on near-road automobile emissions. Highway noise barriers can make a great difference on the dispersion of air pollutants on and downstream of highway than those with non-barriers features. Certain shaped noise barriers have better performance on reduction noise than others, but the noise barrier shape effects on emission dispersion are still not clear.\u0000 In this paper a 3-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model has been developed to simulate the shape effects on highway downstream and nearby region emission dispersion. The realizable k-ε turbulence model was adopted to simulate the turbulent flow caused by fast moving vehicles on highway. A non-reaction species transport model was applied to simulate emission dispersion. The model was first used to simulate rectangular shaped noise barriers effect on highway emission dispersion. Results were compared with the data from literature, and good agreements were observed. Further, simulations were conducted to reveal the noise barrier shape as well as various height effects on emission dispersion on highway and nearby regions.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"207 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":"131252222","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}
A. Sheridan, S. Srivastava, M. Henneke, M. S. Raza, K. Sallam
{"title":"Inclined Injection of Under Expanded Supersonic Gas Jet","authors":"A. Sheridan, S. Srivastava, M. Henneke, M. S. Raza, K. Sallam","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-12020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-12020","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The injection of choked gaseous jets into the still air is investigated experimentally motivated by many industrial applications including flares and burners. The objective is to study the effect of injection angle on the jet mixing with ambient air. The experimental methods consist of particle image velocimetry (PIV) using pulsed Nd:YAG lasers of a choked gas jet, seeded with aluminum oxide particles, injected into still air, seeded with water fog. The computational methods consisted of 7.7 million cells simulation using Star CCM+. The test conditions include injection angles of 0°, 15°, and 30°. The results including mean and fluctuating velocities and the flow vorticity are presented. The flow field is not symmetric along the injection axis due to the asymmetric triggering of expansion fans at the jet exit due to the inclined injection plane. Moreover, the numerical simulation reveals the complex interaction mechanism of the expansion fans and shockwaves within the injection port.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"45 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":"133102345","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":"Wettability Gradients on Graphene to Drive Bubble Motion","authors":"Hongyang Yu, Yu Zhao, Jingjie Sha, Yunfei Chen","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-10886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-10886","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The molecular dynamics (MD) method is employed to simulate thermal bubble nucleation processes confined in graphene nanochannels. It is found that nucleation sites depend strongly on the different solid-liquid interfacial properties in various systems. In this work, the thermal bubble nucleates on the graphene surface, on which the interaction between liquid molecules and channel wall is weak relatively. It is demonstrated that the hydrophobic surface would make thermal bubble to initiate easier. A conceptual design about surface wettability gradient was proposed, which can break the equilibrium state of a bubble and induce its unidirectional movement on the surface. Moreover, MD simulation showed that through a continuous gradient of surface wettability, the direction of movement is under control. These findings provide us with a method in device design for applications of self-controlling motion of bubble down to nanoscale and other wettability-enabled actuators.","PeriodicalId":229616,"journal":{"name":"Volume 7: Fluids Engineering","volume":"123 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":"127062344","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":"Dynamics of Compound Droplet Passing Through a Conical CTC Microfilter","authors":"Pengliang Chang, M. Hashem, Xiaolin Chen, H. Tan","doi":"10.1115/imece2019-10519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-10519","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are important biomarkers which can be used for early-stage cancer detection and treatment. Developing an efficient approach to detect CTCs from peripheral blood is a challenging problem due to their extreme rarity. The CTC microfiltration provides a good solution as a critical method based on the physical property of CTCs. In this study, we employed a compound droplet model to investigate the transport behavior of a CTC squeezing through a conical-shaped microfilter. The compound droplet model of CTC is composed of a cortical membrane, cytoplasm and the nucleus. Numerically, we used the octree-based Adaptive-Mesh-Refinement (AMR) to analyze the deformable CTC flowing through a microfilter with non-uniform cross-sections. We investigated the pressure-deformability behavior of the cell with different nuclear to cytoplasmic ratio (N/C ratio). Our study revealed that the nucleus smaller than the filter pore did not affect the pressure behaviors significantly. However, when the nucleus is larger than the filter pore size, the pressure behaviors are greatly affected. We also studied the effects of the flow rate on the cell squeezing process. We found that the critical pressure increases significantly with the flow rate. Our study can provide valuable information about cell transport behavior in conical-shaped microfilters.","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":"121276159","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}