Free stream

The free streaming tenn can be written as the difference between the number of particles entering and leaving the small region in time 5t. Consider, for example, a cubic cell and look at the faces perpendicular to the v-... 

Values of and m for various configurations are hsted in Table 5-5. The characteristic length is used in both the Nusselt and the Reynolds numbers, and the properties are evaluated at the film temperature = (tio + G)/2. The velocity in the Reynolds number is the undisturbed free-stream velocity. 

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. 

Flat Plate, Zero Angle of Ineidenee For flow over a wide, thin flat plate at zero angle of incidence with a uniform free-stream velocity, as shown in Fig. 6-47, the eritieal Reynolds number at which the boundaiy layer becomes turbulent is normally taken to be... 

However, the transition Reynolds number depends on free-stream turbulence and may range from 3 X 10 to 3 X lO ". The laminar boundary layer thickness 8 is a function of distance from the leading edge ... 

D = diameter of cylinder or effective width of objecl V = free-stream velocity p = fluid density [L = fluid viscosity... 

A = projected area perpendicular to the flow p = fluid density V = free-stream fluid velocity... 

A Free-stream speed of sound flexibility equation ... 

There are certain limitations on the range of usefulness of pitot tubes. With gases, the differential is very small at low velocities e.g., at 4.6 m/s (15.1 ft/s) the differential is only about 1.30 mm (0.051 in) of water (20°C) for air at 1 atm (20°C), which represents a lower hmit for 1 percent error even when one uses a micromanometer with a precision of 0.0254 mm (0.001 in) of water. Equation does not apply for Mach numbers greater than 0.7 because of the interference of shock waves. For supersonic flow, local Mac-h numbers can be calculated from a knowledge of the dynamic and true static pressures. The free stream Mach number (MJ) is defined as the ratio of the speed of the stream (V ) to the speed of sound in the free stream ... 

Caution A free stream of chlorine gas is employed in this reaction, which should therefore be conducted in an efficient hood. 

Anderson (A2) has derived a formula relating the bubble-radius probability density function (B3) to the contact-time density function on the assumption that the bubble-rise velocity is independent of position. Bankoff (B3) has developed bubble-radius distribution functions that relate the contacttime density function to the radial and axial positions of bubbles as obtained from resistivity-probe measurements. Soo (S10) has recently considered a particle-size distribution function for solid particles in a free stream ... 

In these equations x and y denote independent spatial coordinates T, the temperature Tib, the mass fraction of the species p, the pressure u and v the tangential and the transverse components of the velocity, respectively p, the mass density Wk, the molecular weight of the species W, the mean molecular weight of the mixture R, the universal gas constant A, the thermal conductivity of the mixture Cp, the constant pressure heat capacity of the mixture Cp, the constant pressure heat capacity of the species Wk, the molar rate of production of the k species per unit volume hk, the speciflc enthalpy of the species p the viscosity of the mixture and the diffusion velocity of the A species in the y direction. The free stream tangential and transverse velocities at the edge of the boundaiy layer are given by = ax and Vg = —ay, respectively, where a is the strain rate. The strain rate is a measure of the stretch in the flame due to the imposed flow. The form of the chemical production rates and the diffusion velocities can be found in (7-8). 

Consider a system of N particles with masses m in a volume V = L3. Particle i has position r, and velocity v, and the phase point describing the microscopic state of the system is /e (r, v ) = (ri, r2,..., rN, vi, V2,..., v v). We assume that the particles comprising the system undergo collisions that occur at discrete-time intervals x and free stream between such collisions. If the position of particle i at time t is r, its position at time t + x is... 

Without loss of generality, the time r may be set to unity if only MPC and free streaming determine the dynamics. In hybrid models discussed later that combine molecular and MPC dynamics, its value influences the transport properties of the system. Anticipating such an extension, we allow t to remain arbitrary here. 

In multiparticle collisions the same rotation operator is applied to each particle in the cell c but every cell in the system is assigned a different rotation operator so collisions in different cells are independent of each other. As a result of free streaming and collision, if the system phase point was (r, N) at time t, it is (r, v ) at time t + x. 

In the description of MPC dynamics, the size of the collision cell was not specified. Given the number density h = N/V of the system, the cell size will control how many particles, on average, participate in the multiparticle collision event. This, in turn, controls the level of coarse graining of the system. As originally formulated, it was assumed that on average particles should free stream a distance comparable to or somewhat greater than the cell length in the... 

The displaced position on the left-hand side reflects the free streaming between collisions generated by the free streaming Liouville operator,... 

These expressions for the shear viscosity are compared with simulation results in Fig. 5 for various values of the angle a and the dimensionless mean free path X. The figure plots the dimensionless quantity (v/X)(x/a2) and for fixed y and a we see that (vkin/A,)(x/a2) const A, and (vcol/A)(r/u2) const/A. Thus we see in Fig. 5b that the kinetic contribution dominates for large A since particles free stream distances greater than a cell length in the time x however, for small A the collisional contribution dominates since grid shifting is important and is responsible for this contribution to the viscosity. 

Here va and va are the stoichiometric coefficients for the reaction. The formulation is easily extended to treat a set of coupled chemical reactions. Reactive MPC dynamics again consists of free streaming and collisions, which take place at discrete times x. We partition the system into cells in order to carry out the reactive multiparticle collisions. The partition of the multicomponent system into collision cells is shown schematically in Fig. 7. In each cell, independently of the other cells, reactive and nonreactive collisions occur at times x. The nonreactive collisions can be carried out as described earlier for multi-component systems. The reactive collisions occur by birth-death stochastic rules. Such rules can be constructed to conserve mass, momentum, and energy. This is especially useful for coupling reactions to fluid flow. The reactive collision model can also be applied to far-from-equilibrium situations, where certain species are held fixed by constraints. In this case conservation laws... 

Multiparticle collisions are carried out at time intervals x as described earlier. We can write the equation of motion for the phase space probability density function as a simple generalization of Eq. (15) by replacing the free-streaming operator with streaming in the intermolecular potential. We find... 

We have four equations but five unknowns. Although a constant, in this steady state case, nip is not known. We need to specify two boundary conditions for each variable. This is done by the conditions at the wall (y = 0) and in the free stream of the enviornment outside of the boundary layer (y = S). Usually the environment conditions are known. At y = 6,... 

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