Energy turbulent flow

X 109 4 onwards 4 Big Bang expansion of universe - creation of space and time Formation of mass energy Turbulent flow Galaxies, stars Basic atoms in stars Heavier atoms in stars (nuclear reactions see Fig. 8.2)... 

If these assumptions are satisfied then the ideas developed earlier about the mean free path can be used to provide qualitative but useful estimates of the transport properties of a dilute gas. While many varied and complicated processes can take place in fluid systems, such as turbulent flow, pattern fonnation, and so on, the principles on which these flows are analysed are remarkably simple. The description of both simple and complicated flows m fluids is based on five hydrodynamic equations, die Navier-Stokes equations. These equations, in trim, are based upon the mechanical laws of conservation of particles, momentum and energy in a fluid, together with a set of phenomenological equations, such as Fourier s law of themial conduction and Newton s law of fluid friction. When these phenomenological laws are used in combination with the conservation equations, one obtains the Navier-Stokes equations. Our goal here is to derive the phenomenological laws from elementary mean free path considerations, and to obtain estimates of the associated transport coefficients. Flere we will consider themial conduction and viscous flow as examples. 

The balanced equation for turbulent kinetic energy in a reacting turbulent flow contains the terms that represent production as a result of mean flow shear, which can be influenced by combustion, and the terms that represent mean flow dilations, which can remove turbulent energy as a result of combustion. Some of the discrepancies between turbulent flame propagation speeds might be explained in terms of the balance between these competing effects. 

As may be expected, turbulent flow (9,11) is more efficient for droplet formation in low viscosity Hquids. With the average amount of energy dissipated per unit time and volume equal to Z and mass density equal to p, the larger eddies are characterized by a velocity gradient equal to... 

Circular Tubes Numerous relationships have been proposed for predicting turbulent flow in tubes. For high-Prandtl-number fluids, relationships derived from the equations of motion and energy through the momentum-heat-transfer analogy are more complicated and no more accurate than many of the empirical relationships that have been developed. 

With turbulent flow, shear stress also results from the behavior of transient random eddies, including large-scale eddies which decay to small eddies or fluctuations. The scale of the large eddies depends on equipment size. On the other hand, the scale of small eddies, which dissipate energy primarily through viscous shear, is almost independent of agitator and tank size. 

In Gaussian plume computations the change in wind velocity with height is a function both of the terrain and of the time of day. We model the air flow as turbulent flow, with turbulence represented by eddy motion. The effect of eddy motion is important in diluting concentrations of pollutants. If a parcel of air is displaced from one level to another, it can carry momentum and thermal energy with it. It also carries whatever has been placed in it from pollution sources. Eddies exist in different sizes in the atmosphere, and these turbulent eddies are most effective in dispersing the plume. 

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is the numerical analysis of systems involving transport processes and solution by computer simulation. An early application of CFD (FLUENT) to predict flow within cooling crystallizers was made by Brown and Boysan (1987). Elementary equations that describe the conservation of mass, momentum and energy for fluid flow or heat transfer are solved for a number of sub regions of the flow field (Versteeg and Malalase-kera, 1995). Various commercial concerns provide ready-to-use CFD codes to perform this task and usually offer a choice of solution methods, model equations (for example turbulence models of turbulent flow) and visualization tools, as reviewed by Zauner (1999) below. 

For partieles to break-up in a turbulent flow field, fluid eddies responsible for break-up have to be of both less than the eritieal size and also possess suffieient disruptive energy. Eddies that are larger than the eritieal size tend to entrain... 

The availability of large and fast computers, in combination with numerical techniques to compute transient, turbulent flow, has made it possible to simulate the process of turbulent, premixed combustion in a gas explosion in more detail. Hjertager (1982) was the first to develop a code for the computation of transient, compressible, turbulent, reactive flow. Its basic concept can be described as follows A gas explosion is a reactive fluid which expands under the influence of energy addition. Energy is supplied by combustion, which is modeled as a one-step conversion process of reactants into combustion products. The conversion (combustion)... 

The major mechanism of a vapor cloud explosion, the feedback in the interaction of combustion, flow, and turbulence, can be readily found in this mathematical model. The combustion rate, which is primarily determined by the turbulence properties, is a source term in the conservation equation for the fuel-mass fraction. The attendant energy release results in a distribution of internal energy which is described by the equation for conservation of energy. This internal energy distribution is translated into a pressure field which drives the flow field through momentum equations. The flow field acts as source term in the turbulence model, which results in a turbulent-flow structure. Finally, the turbulence properties, together with the composition, determine the rate of combustion. This completes the circle, the feedback in the process of turbulent, premixed combustion in gas explosions. The set of equations has been solved with various numerical methods e.g., SIMPLE (Patankar 1980) SOLA-ICE (Cloutman et al. 1976). 

Liquids in motion have characteristics different from liquids at rest. Frictional resistances within the fluid, viscosity, and inertia contribute to these differences. Inertia, which means the resistance a mass offers to being set in motion, will be discussed later in this section. Other relationships of liquids in motion you must be familiar with. Among these are volume and velocity of flow flow rate, and speed laminar and turbulent flow and more importantly, the force and energy changes which occur in flow. 

Both of these abnormal forcing functions (i.e., turbulent flow and operation outside of the effective control range) increase the level of vibration. However, when the instability is relatively minor, the resultant vibration occurs at the vane-pass frequency. As it become more severe, there also is a marked increase in the broadband energy. 

The kinetic energy attributable to this velocity will be dissipated when the liquid enters the reservoir. The pressure drop may now be calculated from the energy balance equation and equation 3.19. For turbulent flow of an incompressible fluid ... 

If at time t the liquid level is D m above the bottom of the tank, then designating point 1 as the liquid level and point 2 as the pipe outlet, and applying the energy balance equation (2.67) for turbulent flow, then ... 

An experimental study of the laminar-turbulent transition in water flow in long circular micro-tubes, with diameter and length in the range of 16.6-32.2 pm and 1-30 mm, respectively, was carried out by Rands et al. (2006). The measurements allowed to estimate the effect of heat released by energy dissipation on fluid viscosity under conditions of laminar and turbulent flow in long micro-tubes. 

The dependence of the measured rise in fluid mixed-cup temperature on Reynolds number is illustrated in Fig. 3.12. The difference between outlet and inlet temperatures increases monotonically with increasing Re at laminar and turbulent flows. Under conditions of the given experiments, the temperature rise due to energy dissipation is very significant AT = 15—35 K at L/ i = 900—1,470 and Re = 2,500. The data on rising temperature in long micro-tubes can be presented in the form of the dependence of dimensionless viscous heating parameter Re/[Ec(L/(i)] on Reynolds number (Fig. 3.13). 

Under certain conditions the energy dissipation may lead to an oscillatory regime of laminar flow in micro-channels. The oscillatory flow regime occurs in microchannels at Reynolds numbers less that Recr- In this case the existence of velocity flucmations does not indicate change from laminar to turbulent flow. 

In turbulent flow, part of this extra energy buys something. It increases turbulence and improves heat transfer and mixing. 

The increase in pumping energy is smaller than for turbulent flow but is still large. The power input to a unit volume of fluid increases by a factor of S. ... 

In laminar flow, the pressure drop is constant when scaleup is carried out by geometric similarity. In turbulent flow, it increases as the square root of throughput. There is extra pumping energy per unit volume of throughput, which gives... 

When two or more phases are present, it is rarely possible to design a reactor on a strictly first-principles basis. Rather than starting with the mass, energy, and momentum transport equations, as was done for the laminar flow systems in Chapter 8, we tend to use simplified flow models with empirical correlations for mass transfer coefficients and interfacial areas. The approach is conceptually similar to that used for friction factors and heat transfer coefficients in turbulent flow systems. It usually provides an adequate basis for design and scaleup, although extra care must be taken that the correlations are appropriate. 

P. Clavin. D)mamic behaviour of premixed flame fronts in laminar and turbulent flows. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 11 1-59,1985. 

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