Mixing from shear turbulence

A consideration of the right-hand sides of these two equations indicates that the turbulence terms in these equations have, as discussed in Chapter 2, the form of additional shearing stress and heat transfer terms although they arise, of course, from the momentum transfer and enthalpy transfer produced by the mixing that arises from the turbulence. Because of their similarity to the molecular terms, the turbulence terms are usually called the turbulent shear stress and turbulent heat transfer rate respectively. Thus, the following are defined ... 

TURBULENCE is chaotic fluid flow characterized by the appearance of three-dimensional, irregular swirls. These swirls are called eddies, and usually turbulence consists of many different sizes of eddies superimposed on each other. In the presence of turbulence, fluid masses with different properties are mixed rapidly. Atmospheric turbulence usually refers to the small-scale chaotic flow of air in the Earth s atmosphere. This type of turbulence results from vertical wind shear and convection and usually occurs in the atmospheric boundary layer and in clouds. On a horizontal scale of order 1000 km, the disturbances by synoptic weather systems are sometimes referred to as two-dimensional turbulence. Deterministic description of turbulence is difficult because of the chaotic character of turbulence and the large range of scales involved. Consequently, turbulence is treated in terms of statistical quantities. Insight in the physics of atmospheric turbulence is important, for instance, for the construction of buildings and structures, the mixing of air properties, and the dispersion of air pollution. Turbulence also plays an... 

The production of turbulence is maximum close to walls, where both shear rate and turbulent viscosity, ut, are high. In pipe flow, the maximum is close to y+ = 12. A proper design of a chemical reactor for efficient mixing at low Re should allow the generated turbulence to be transported with the mean flow from the region where it is produced to the bulk of the fluid where it should dissipate. 

These different approaches are complementary to each other in basic concept. However, these analyses have not provided clear insight information of the bubble layer at the CHF about the bubble shape (spherical or flat elliptical), bubble population and its effect on turbulent mixing, and bubble behavior. The bubble behavior in a bubble layer could involve bubble rotation caused by flow shear, normal bubble velocity fluctuation, and bubble condensation in the bubble layer caused by the subcooled water coming from the core. Further visual study and measurements in this area may be desired. 

Many experiments have established that, as mentioned before, there is a region near the wall where the local turbulent shear stress depends on the wall shear stress and the distance from the wall alone and is largely independent of the nature of the rest of the flow. In this region, the mixing length increases linearly with distance from the wall except that near the wall there is a damping of the turbulence due to viscosity. In the wall region, it is assumed therefore that ... 

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