Increasing production and recovery from mature oil and gas fields often requires a boosting system. Introducing natural gas ejectors can be considered to be a cost-effective way for boosting the production of low-pressure natural gas wells. The CFD technique was employed to investigate the effects of the geometrical factors of natural gas ejectors, the optimal geometrical factors were obtained ...

The ejectors are used commonly to extract gases in the petroleum industry where it is not possible to use an electric bomb due the explosion risk because the gases are flammable. The steam ejector is important in creating and holding a vacuum system. The goal of this job is to develop an object oriented parallel numerical code to investigate the unsteady behavior of the supersonic flow in the e...

The diffuser total efficiency was formulated and defined based on the generalized actuator disc model for index of diffuser-alone diffuser-augmented wind turbines. An optimization method to maximize developed using a genetic algorithm axisymmetric computational fluid dynamics. A case study conducted 10% chord-to-diameter ratio, 2% thickness-to-chord plate, crest position at 50% chord diffuser. ...

This paper numerically investigates stator endwall designs for a mixed flow turbine. One key design parameter studied is the tilting angle of endwall. By examining with different angles, aim this to improve efficiency turbine at low velocity ratio working conditions. The performance curve speed was chosen comparison between baseline and tilted designs. First, numerical predictions were validate...

We report numerical and experimental studies on a droplet moving through an array of mirofluidic ratchets. Droplets are formed at a T junction and subsequently forced through microfluidic ratchets in the form of diffuser/nozzle structures. At the same flow rates of the continuous and the dispersed phases, the velocity of the droplet is determined by the viscosity of the continuous phase and the...

This paper studies the effects of viscous loss, flow separation and base pressure for ducted turbine designs using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. Analytical model coefficients for inlet and diffuser efficiency and base pressure coefficient parameterize these effects and have been identified from CFD results. General trends are: the inlet efficiency is nearly unity for the simula...

The prevention of airborne infections in emergency departments is a very important issue. This study investigated the effects of architectural features on airborne pathogen dispersion in emergency departments by using a CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulation tool. The study included three architectural features as the major variables: increased ventilation rate, inlet and outlet diffuser...

In the present investigation the distribution of mean velocity, static pressure and total pressure are experimentally studied on an annular curved diffuser of 37.5° angle of turn with an area ratio of 1.284 and centerline length was chosen as three times of inlet diameter. The experimental results then were numerically validated with the help of Fluent and then a series of parametric investigat...