Flow continuity equation

The Navier-Stokes equations and the flow continuity equation together give the general flow model other cases associate various forms of the energy conservation equation to this model. 

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Equation 4.23 is referred to as the flow continuity equation. If Eqs. 4.19 and 4.21 are substituted in the continuity equation, then ... 

Referring to Figure 3, a gross flow continuity equation was written for the circumferential flow at the reformation boundary for half the bearing width at an angular location (<(>f.Q ) ... 

In the second model the viscous fluid flow inside the fracture is taken into account. In this case the propagation model is unsteady. The process unsteadiness is taken into account by the fluid-flow continuity equation. Meanwhile all other equations describing momentum balance, elastic equilibrium, and material rapture are stationary. The dynamics of the propagation process is represented by the static conditions of flow momentum, stress field, and elastic media displacements in various moments of time. 

As was argued in previous work, the inlet meniscus position A is of limited interest, as it is determined by the thickness of the oil layer in the inlet hou- In order to link hou with the inlet meniscus position a the flow continuity equation is analysed on the negative x-axis (0 = 0). 

Three-dimensional (3D) models represent the highest tier of spatial and process complexity and solve the flow continuity equation and the Navier-Stokes equations for conservation of mass and momentum in three-dimensional space. Three-dimensional models are favored over depth-averaged models for water body systems where density stratification occurs or hydraulic structures significantly impact hydrodynamic behavior. Examples of 3D coupled hydrodynamic/sediment transport models include EEDC, ECOMSED, MIKE-3, RMA-10, and Delft 3D. 

As already explained the necessity to satisfy the BB stability condition restricts the types of available elements in the modelling of incompressible flow problems by the U-V P method. To eliminate this restriction the continuity equation representing the incompressible flow is replaced by an equation corresponding to slightly compressible fluids, given as... 

In an axisymmetric flow regime all of the field variables remain constant in the circumferential direction around an axis of symmetry. Therefore the governing flow equations in axisymmetric systems can be analytically integrated with respect to this direction to reduce the model to a two-dimensional form. In order to illustrate this procedure we consider the three-dimensional continuity equation for an incompressible fluid written in a cylindrical (r, 9, 2) coordinate system as... 

Therefore the continuity equation for an incompressible axisymmetric flow is written as... 

It is evident that application of Green s theorem cannot eliminate second-order derivatives of the shape functions in the set of working equations of the least-sc[uares scheme. Therefore, direct application of these equations should, in general, be in conjunction with C continuous Hermite elements (Petera and Nassehi, 1993 Petera and Pittman, 1994). However, various techniques are available that make the use of elements in these schemes possible. For example, Bell and Surana (1994) developed a method in which the flow model equations are cast into a set of auxiliary first-order differentia] equations. They used this approach to construct a least-sciuares scheme for non-Newtonian flow equations based on equal-order C° continuous, p-version hierarchical elements. 

MODELLING OF STEADY-STATE VISCOMETRIC FLOW -WORKING EQUATIONS OF THE CONTINUOUS PENALTY SCHEME IN CARTESIAN COORDINATE SYSTEMS... 

Wc now obtain the integral of the continuity equation for incompressible fluids with respect to the local gap height hr this flow domain... 

Material Balances Whenever mass-transfer applications involve equipment of specific dimensions, flux equations alone are inadequate to assess results. A material balance or continuity equation must also be used. When the geometiy is simple, macroscopic balances suffice. The following equation is an overall mass balance for such a unit having bulk-flow ports and ports or interfaces through which diffusive flux can occur ... 

Selecting the inlet and outlet surfaces 1 and 2 as shown, the continuity equation Eq. (6-9) can he used to find the exit velocity V2 = ViAi/A2. The mass flow rate is obtained by m = pViAi. 

The continuity equation gives V2 = V AJa, and Vj = Q/A. The pressure drop measured by the manometer is pi —p2= (p — p)gA . Substituting these relations into the energy balance and rearranging, the desired expression for the flow rate is found. 

Since = 0 at y = ff/2, the continuity equation integrates to = 0. This is a direct result of the assumption of fuUy developed flow. 

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is the analysis of systems involving fluid flow, energy transfer, and associated phenomena such as combustion and chemical reactions by means of computer-based simulation. CFD codes numerically solve the mass-continuity equation over a specific domain set by the user. The technique is very powerful and covers a wide range of industrial applications. Examples in the field of chemical engineering are ... 

The mass flow is found using the continuity equation riv= punrd /4 and the Reynolds number formula Re = dm/firp dv)-. 

The dimensionless form of the continuity equation (4.278) ( , = 0) in Uv o-dimensional boundary layer flow is... 

The governing equations for mass flow, energy flow, and contaminant flow in a room will be the continuity equation, Navier-Stokes equations (one in each coordinate direction), the energy equation, and the mass transport equation, respectively. 

The continuity equation for an incompressible flow is given by the following expression ... 

The same equations that are used in constructing the energy function lead to a continuity equation as well. That is, an equation describing the temporal variation of bond energy can be written as the difference between incoming and outgoing flows ... 

We first derive the so-called continuity equation, which is a direct consequence of the conservation of mass. If p is the density, or mass per unit volume, then the total mass of a fluid contained in F is equal to M = fj p dF. Letting dS — fi dS be an element of the surface, with n a unit vector perpendicular to the surface, the mass flow per unit time through the surface element is pv dS. The total fluid flow out of the volume F is then given by... 

The estimation of the diffusional flux to a clean surface of a single spherical bubble moving with a constant velocity relative to a liquid medium requires the solution of the equation for convective diffusion for the component that dissolves in the continuous phase. For steady-state incompressible axisym-metric flow, the equation for convective diffusion in spherical coordinates is approximated by... 

Equation (8.64) allows the shape of the velocity profile to be calculated (e.g., substitute ytr = constant and see what happens), but the magnitude of the velocity depends on the yet unknown value for dPjdz. As is often the case in hydrodynamic calculations, pressure drops are determined through the use of a continuity equation. Here, the continuity equation takes the form of a constant mass flow rate down the tube ... 

The flow in the die hole is predominantly in the axial direction with the axial velocity, Vz, a function of both r and z position. The radial component of velocity, Vr, is significant only in the conical section of the die hole. However, Vj- is about two orders of magnitude smaller compared with the axial velocity, vz. Therefore, Vj- is estimated by forcing the continuity equation to be... 

Flow in the transverse (y) direction is negligible. Although flow in the transverse (y) direction will actually be non-zero, because the channel width increases it is assumed to be negligible, relative to Vx. After solving the problem based on Vy=0, an estimate of Vy can be obtained by then solving the continuity equation. 

Henry [ 157] solved the steady-flow continuity and Navier-Stokes equations in spherical geometry, neglecting inertial terms but including pressure and electrical force terms, coupled with Poisson s equation. The electrical force term in Henry s analysis consisted of the sum of the externally applied electric field and the field due to the double layers. His major assumptions are low surface potential (i.e., potentials less than approximately 25 mV) and undistorted double layers. The additional parameter ku appearing in the Henry... 

Trinh et al. [399] derived a number of similar expressions for mobility and diffusion coefficients in a similar unit cell. The cases considered by Trinh et al. were (1) electrophoretic transport with the same uniform electric field in the large pore and in the constriction, (2) hindered electrophoretic transport in the pore with uniform electric fields, (3) hydrodynamic flow in the pore, where the velocity in the second pore was related to the velocity in the first pore by the overall mass continuity equation, and (4) hindered hydrodynamic flow. All of these four cases were investigated with two different boundary condi-... 

The Eulerian multiphase model is used to predict the dispersed gas-liquid flow in the airlift loop reactor. It involves a set of momentum and continuity equations for each phase. Model equation coupling is achieved through the pressure and interphase exchange coefBcdents [5],... 

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