There are several ways of improving the performance of a vapor compression refrigeration cycle. Use of an ejector as expansion device is one of the alternative ways. The present paper aims at evaluate the performance improvement of a vapor compression refrigeration cycle under a wide range of operating conditions. A numerical model is developed and a parametric study of important parameters suc...

UNLABELLED With the capability to improve indoor air quality while simultaneously reducing energy demand, displacement ventilation is becoming popular. However, the numerical simulation of air distribution in an indoor space with displacement ventilation using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is challenging because of the complexity of air diffuser geometry and the complicated airflow pattern...

Flow characteristics of low Reynolds number laminar flow through gradually expanding conical and planar diffusers were investigated. Such diffusers are used in valveless micropumps to effect flow rectification and thus lead to pumping action in one preferential direction. Four different types of diffuser flows are considered: fully developed and thin inlet boundary layer flows through conical a...

Abstract The paper focuses on implementing the wall model developed by Manhart, in Reynolds Averaged Navier - Stokes (RANS) turbulence models used field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). This considers influence streamwise pressure gradient addition to existing usual CFD codes. In present work, two RANS numerical simulations are carried out using k-ω Shear Stress Transport (SST) an asymmet...

The pressure pulsation characteristics of the blade’s surface have an impact on lifespan multiphase pump impeller. To explore influence gap matching relation at pump, axial clearance coefficient (ACC) between impeller and diffuser relative tip were defined. By combining numerical simulation experiment, single pressurization unit studied under different relations. results show that size leakage ...

In this work, a numerical investigation using Ansys Fluent software is performed to study the flow pattern, indoor thermal comfort, and air freshness generated in full-scale ventilated office room occupied by sitting occupant. The performance of multi-cone ceiling diffuser equipped with lobed inserts assessed compared traditional diffuser. comfort evaluated predicted percentage dissatisfaction ...

in this paper, direct numerical simulation of two-phase incompressible gas-liquid flow for simulation of bubble motion in a microtube is presented. microtube radius is 10 µm. the interface is tracked using volume of fluid (vof) method with continuous surface force (csf) model. the flow is solved using a finite volume scheme, based on piso algorithm. numerical simulation is performed on a axisym...