Reynolds number drag coefficient

Figure 21. Ratio of drag coefficient to low Reynolds number drag coefficient, uB/umj- - 10 and 3. (From Glicksman et al 1993b.)...

Most seed kernels are irregular in shape. Their drag coefficients depend not only on the shape but also on the orientation of the kernels in the airstream. Thus, an equivalent diameter is used in the determination of the Reynolds number. Drag coefficients for various crops are given in Table 27.15. 

Particle size distribution (iran) Average particle size (mm) Particle Reynolds number Drag coefficient for a sphere Drag coefficient for a particle with shape factor of 1... 

Archimedes number Bingham number Bingham Reynolds number Blake number Bond number Capillary number Cauchy number Cavitation number Dean number Deborah number Drag coefficient Elasticity number Euler number Fanning friction factor Froude number Densometric Froude number Hedstrom number Hodgson number Mach number Newton number Ohnesorge number Peclet number Pipeline parameter... 

The drag coefficient has different functionalities with particle Reynolds number Ri in three different regimes (Fig. 14), which results in the following expressions (1). 

Suppose that an experiment were set up to determine the values of drag for various combinations of O, p, and ]1. If each variable is to be tested at ten values, then it would require lO" = 10, 000 tests for all combinations of these values. On the other hand, as a result of dimensional analysis the drag can be calculated by means of the drag coefficient, which, being a function of the Reynolds number Ke, can be uniquely determined by the values of Ke. Thus, for data of equal accuracy, it now requires only 10 tests at ten different values of Ke instead of 10,000, a remarkable saving in experiments. 

In addition, dimensional analysis can be used in the design of scale experiments. For example, if a spherical storage tank of diameter dis to be constmcted, the problem is to determine windload at a velocity p. Equations 34 and 36 indicate that, once the drag coefficient Cg is known, the drag can be calculated from Cg immediately. But Cg is uniquely determined by the value of the Reynolds number Ke. Thus, a scale model can be set up to simulate the Reynolds number of the spherical tank. To this end, let a sphere of diameter tC be immersed in a fluid of density p and viscosity ]1 and towed at the speed of p o. Requiting that this model experiment have the same Reynolds number as the spherical storage tank gives... 

The drag coefficient for rigid spherical particles is a function of particle Reynolds number, Re = d pii/ where [L = fluid viscosity, as shown in Fig. 6-57. At low Reynolds number, Stokes Law gives 24... 

The drag coefficients for disks (flat side perpendicular to the direction of motion) and for cylinders (infinite length with axis perpendicular to the direclion of motion) are given in Fig. 6-57 as a Function of Reynolds number. The effect of length-to-diameter ratio for cylinders in the Newton s law region is reported by Knudsen and Katz Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1958). 

Equations (6-236) to (6-239) are based on experiments on cube-oc tahedrons, octahedrons, cubes, and tetrahedrons for which the sphericity f ranges from 0.906 to 0.670, respectively. See also Chft, Grace, and Weber. A graph of drag coefficient vs. Reynolds number with y as a parameter may be found in Brown, et al. (Unit Operations, Whey, New York, 1950) and in Govier and Aziz. 

And introducing the ratio of accelerations, = ag/g, where indicates the relative strength of acceleration, ag, with respect to the gravitational acceleration g. This is known as the separation number. The LHS of equation 60 contains a Reynolds number group raised to the second power and the drag coefficient. Hence, the equation may be written entirely in terms of dimensionless numbers ... 

The drag coefficient also depends on shape and 0(, but in addition, because drag is partially due to friction, and frictional effects in a flow arc governed by a powerful dimensionless quantity called Reynolds number, then Cu is also a function of the Reynolds number. Re ... 

Under conditions of high vapour velocity Carpenter and Colburn 9 have shown that turbulence may occur with low values of the Reynolds number, in the range 200-400. When the vapour velocity is high, there will be an appreciable drag on the condensate him and the expression obtained for the heat transfer coefficient is difficult to manage. 

Figure 2.10 Relationship between drag coefficient lfd) and Reynolds number (Re) for a spherical particle settling in a liquid.

The drag coefficient is a function of the shape of the structure and the wind velocity (Reynolds number). 

Above a Reynolds number of around 2, Equation 8.5 will underestimate the drag coefficient and hence overestimate the settling velocity. Also, for Re > 2, an empirical expression must be used7 ... 

As seen in Fig. 11-2, the drag coefficient for the sphere exhibits a sudden drop from 0.45 to about 0.15 (almost 70%) at a Reynolds number of about 2.5 x 105. For the cylinder, the drop is from about 1.1 to about 0.35. This drop is a consequence of the transition of the boundary layer from laminar to turbulent flow and can be explained as follows. 

For larger Reynolds numbers (1 < NRe < 500), Rivkind and Ryskind (see Grace, 1983) proposed the following equation for the drag coefficient for spherical drops and bubbles ... 

With regard to the drag on a sphere moving in a Bingham plastic medium, the drag coefficient (CD) must be a function of the Reynolds number as well as of either the Hedstrom number or the Bingham number (7V Si = /Vne//VRe = t0d/fi V). One approach is to reconsider the Reynolds number from the perspective of the ratio of inertial to viscous momentum flux. For a Newtonian fluid in a tube, this is equivalent to... 

Equation (11-45) could be used in place of the traditional Reynolds number for correlating the drag coefficient. 

This result can also be applied directly to coarse particle swarms. For fine particle systems, the suspending fluid properties are assumed to be modified by the fines in suspension, which necessitates modifying the fluid properties in the definitions of the Reynolds and Archimedes numbers accordingly. Furthermore, because the particle drag is a direct function of the local relative velocity between the fluid and the solid (the interstitial relative velocity, Fr), it is this velocity that must be used in the drag equations (e.g., the modified Dallavalle equation). Since Vr = Vs/(1 — Reynolds number and drag coefficient for the suspension (e.g., the particle swarm ) are (after Barnea and Mizrahi, 1973) ... 

Since the same simplified set of dimensionless parameters holds exactly at both high and low Reynolds numbers, it is reasonable to expect that it will hold, at least approximately, over the entire range of conditions for which the drag coefficient can be determined by the Ergun equation or an equation of similar form. 

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