Wall boundary layer

With turbulent channel flow the shear rate near the wall is even higher than with laminar flow. Thus, for example, (du/dy) ju = 0.0395 Re u/D is vaHd for turbulent pipe flow with a hydraulically smooth wall. The conditions in this case are even less favourable for uniform stress on particles, as the layer flowing near the wall (boundary layer thickness 6), in which a substantial change in velocity occurs, decreases with increasing Reynolds number according to 6/D = 25 Re", and is very small. Considering that the channel has to be large in comparison with the particles D >dp,so that there is no interference with flow, e.g. at Re = 2300 and D = 10 dp the related boundary layer thickness becomes only approx. 29% of the particle diameter. It shows that even at Re = 2300 no defined stress can be exerted and therefore channels are not suitable model reactors. 

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Later on, Nikuradse [9] examined these correlations for artificially roughened pipes (by sticking sand particles onto the inner wall surface) and represented them in a pi-space extended by the geometrical number dp/d. He and later researchers, for example [10], were primarily interested in the transition range of the Re number, where the wall roughness is of the same order of magnitude as the wall boundary layer. 

This concept was demonstrated at the Institute of Process Engineering and Cryogenics at ETH (Switzerland) during the last two years with the FilmCooled Hydrothermal Burner (FCHB). The FCHB operated at pressures of 25 MPa and temperatures up to 2000 K, cf. [1], Experiments and detailed analysis led to the basic design approach for SCWO reactors discussed herein which is based on wall boundary layer control and internal recirculation. 

Liner L is cooled from the outside with cooling fluid Y which enforces a temperature drop in the wall boundary layer G, so that Tw can be kept below Twmax. 

The liner has a porous or near porous structure generating a uniformly distributed source of cooling or hot flushing fluid that keeps Tw of the liner cool or reduces the concentration of corrosives species in the wall boundary layer G. 

G Boundary/shear layer, W Wall of pressure vessel The wall boundary layer control system must protect the walls, while the whole reactor must match the specified performance and stability. 

The wall boundary layer of the cylinder head of a Sandia research engine has been observed by Lucht et al. [171] using mean temperatures measured by CARS. Their data for a motored engine are relevant to autoignition and at tdc the mean temperature gradient was between 40 and 50 K/mm, at a distance of 1 mm from the surface. This increased as the surface... 

Another distinguishing feature of the spectral curves can also be analyzed. The pronounced peaks on curves 2-6 indicate that there is a significant energy at frequencies about / 17 Hz, corresponding to a Strouhal number St = jf- 0.17. Above the wake and far enough to its sides, the energy reduces and the spectral curves come to the shape obtained in the smooth wall boundary layer. Such peaks in wake spectra immediately downstream of individual obstructions have been found by other authors, see, for instance, [197],... 

In this paragraph the wall function concept is outlined. The wall functions are empirical parameterizations of the mean flow variable profiles within the inner part of the wall boundary layers, bridging the fully developed turbulent log-law flow quantities with the wall through the viscous and buffer sublayers where the two-equation turbulence model is strictly not valid. These empirical parameterizations thus allow the numerical flow simulation to be carried out with a finite resolution within the wall boundary layers, and one avoids accounting for viscous effects in the model equations. Therefore, in the numerical implementation of the k-e model one anticipates that the boundary layer flow is not fully resolved by the model resolution. The first grid point or node used at a wall boundary is thus placed within the fully turbulent log-law sub-layer, rather than on the wall itself [95]. In effect, the wall functions amount to a synthetic boundary condition for the k-e model. In addition, the limited boundary layer resolution required also provides savings on computer time and storage. 

It follows from this expression that near the tube axis the fluid and pressure oscillations are opposite in phase, and the viscosity effects are noticeable only in the near-wall boundary layer with characteristic size y/v/uj. By calculating the time-averaged square of the velocity Vj, one can see that this variable attains its maximum value at the distance 3.22y/ujuj from the wall. This is just the annular effect experimentally discovered in [400]. 

Fig. 18. Calculated electron density and temperature distribution in a plasma wall boundary layer. Reprinted from...

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