Boundary layer from velocity decrease

Consider a heated vertical plate in a quiescent fluid. The plate heats the fluid in its neighborhood, which then becomes lighter and moves upward. The force resulting from the product of gravity and density difference and causing this upward motion is called buoyancy. The fluid moving under the effect of buoyancy develops a vertical boundary layer about the plate. Within the boundary layer the temperature decreases from the plate temperature to the fluid temperature, while the velocity vanishes on the plate walls and beyond the boundary layer and has a maximum in between (Fig. 5.13). Actually, in a manner similar to forced convection, the momentum boundary layer of natural convection is expected to be thicker for larger Prandtl numbers than the thermal boundary layer. However, the characteristic velocity for the enthalpy flow across should be scaled relative to Ss rather than 5,... 

SEPARATION FROM VELOCITY DECREASE Boundary-layer separation can occur even where there is no sudden change in cross section if the cross section is continuously enlarged. For example, consider the flow of a fluid stream through the trumpet-shaped expander shown in Fig. 5.16. Because of the increase of cross section in the direction of flow, the velocity of the fluid decreases, and by the Bernoulli equation, the pressure must increase. Consider two stream filaments, one, aa, very near the wall, and the other, bb, a short distance from the wall. The pressure increase over a definite length of conduit is the same for both filaments, because the pressure throughout any single cross section is uniform. The loss in velocity head is, then, the same for both filaments. The initial velocity head of filament aa is less than that of filament bb, however, because filament aa is nearer... 

Boundary layer flows are a special class of flows in which the flow far from the surface of an object is inviscid, and the effects of viscosity are manifest only in a thin region near the surface where steep velocity gradients occur to satisfy the no-slip condition at the solid surface. The thin layer where the velocity decreases from the inviscid, potential flow velocity to zero (relative velocity) at the sohd surface is called the boundary layer The thickness of the boundary layer is indefinite because the velocity asymptotically approaches the free-stream velocity at the outer edge. The boundaiy layer thickness is conventionally t en to be the distance for which the velocity equals 0.99 times the free-stream velocity. The boundary layer may be either laminar or turbulent. Particularly in the former case, the equations of motion may be simphfied by scaling arguments. Schhchting Boundary Layer Theory, 8th ed., McGraw-HiU, New York, 1987) is the most comprehensive source for information on boundary layer flows. 

As follows from the hydrodynamic properties of systems involving phase boundaries (see e.g. [86a], chapter 2), the hydrodynamic, Prandtl or stagnant layer is formed during liquid movement along a boundary with a solid phase, i.e. also at the surface of an ISE with a solid or plastic membrane. The liquid velocity rapidly decreases in this layer as a result of viscosity forces. Very close to the interface, the liquid velocity decreases to such an extent that the material is virtually transported by diffusion alone in the Nernst layer (see fig. 4.13). It follows from the theory of diffusion transport toward a plane with characteristic length /, along which a liquid flows at velocity Vo, that the Nernst layer thickness, 5, is given approximately by the expression,... 

The slope of the lines presented in Figure 5 is defined as k(q/v). The q/v term defines the turnover of the tank contents or what is commonly referred to as the retention time. When q is increased, the liquid contacts the carbon more often and the removal of pesticides should increase, however, the efficiency term, k, can be a function of q. As the waste flow rate is increased, the fluid velocity around each carbon particle increases, thereby increasing system turbulence and compressing the liquid boundary layer. The residence time within the carbon bed is also decreased at higher liquid flow rates, which will reduce the time available for the pesticides to diffuse from the bulk liquid into the liquid boundary layer and into the carbon pores. From inspection of Table II, the pesticide concentration also effects the efficiency factor, k can only be determined experimentally and is valid only for the equipment and conditions tested. 

Figure 1.11 represents the cross-section through a spherical particle over which an ideal non-viscous fluid flows. The fluid is at rest at points 1 and 3 but the fluid velocity is a maximum at points 2 and 4. There is a corresponding decrease in pressure from point 1 to point 2 and from 1 fo 4. However, fhe pressure rises to a maximum again at point 3. If fhe ideal fluid is replaced wifh a real viscous fluid then, as the pressure increases towards point 3, the boundary layer next to the particle surface becomes fhicker and then separates from the surface as in Figure 1.12. This separation of the boundary layer gives rise to...

The axisymmetric Hiemenz solution assumes an inviscid outer flow field. The outer flow, which the inner viscous boundary layer sees, has a constant scaled radial velocity V = 1 and an outer axial velocity that decreases linearly with the distance from the stagnation surface. 

Figure 6.13 illustrates the streamline patterns and velocity profiles for two rotation rates. The outer flow for the rotating disk is seen to be quite different from the semi-infinite stagnation-flow situation. In the rotating-disk case, the inviscid flow outside the viscous boundary layer has only uniform axial velocity. In the stagnation flow, the axial velocity varies linearly with the distance from the stagnation surface z and the scaled radial velocity v/r is a constant (cf. Fig. 6.6). The rotating-disk solutions reveal that as the rotation rate increases, the axial velocity increases in the outer flow and the boundary-layer thickness decreases as fi1/2 and f2-1/2, respectively.

Filtration is a physical separation whereby particles are removed from the fluid and retained by the filters. Three basic collection mechanisms involving fibers are inertial impaction, interception, and diffusion. In collection by inertial impaction, the particles with large inertia deviate from the gas streamlines around the fiber collector and collide with the fiber collector. In collection by interception, the particles with small inertia nearly follow the streamline around the fiber collector and are partially or completely immersed in the boundary layer region. Subsequently, the particle velocity decreases and the particles graze the barrier and stop on the surface of the collector. Collection by diffusion is very important for fine particles. In this collection mechanism, particles with a zig-zag Brownian motion in the immediate vicinity of the collector are collected on the surface of the collector. The efficiency of collection by diffusion increases with decreasing size of particles and suspension flow rate. There are also several other collection mechanisms such as gravitational sedimentation, induced electrostatic precipitation, and van der Waals deposition their contributions in filtration may also be important in some processes. 

In [41], calculations of the BSGC were performed with the model [34] using monthly climatic density fields with a discreteness about 22 km [11] obtained from the data from about 65 000 stations. For the first time, a clear seasonal variability in the intensity and structure of the BSGC was obtained with a physically reasonable succession of the current fields from one month to another. In February-May, the range of the SLE reached 0.24-0.26 m, while in June and October it decreased down to 0.20 and 0.12 m, respectively. Figures 7-9 represent the fields of current vectors in addition to those published in [41]. The level 0 m characterizes the BSGC in the upper 100-m layer, while the level 300 m best represents the currents at the lower boundary of the layer the maximal velocity decrease with depth below it, their vertical changes are multifold lower (see Fig. 3a). In order to illustrate this, the current field at a depth of 1000 m in May is additionally shown in Fig. 8. 

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