Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) has been employed to determine pseudo-turbulence characteristics of the flow field around bubble train forming in non-Newtonian caboxymethylcellulose (CMC) aqueous solution at low gas flow rate condition. The Reynolds stress and turbulent intensity of the liquid were investigated by means of Reynolds time-averaged method. The experimental results show that ax...

In this paper, the turbulent air droplet flow inside a single passage of a curved type vane separator has been studied numerically. The simulation is based on the Eulerian - Lagrangian method. For turbulent air flow calculations, a computer code was developed to solve the Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) equations together with the equations of Reynolds Stress Transport Model (RSTM) o...

The Generation IV Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) is being considered as a promising concept to produce electricity or process heat with high efficiencies and unique safety features. The PBMR is a high-temperature, helium-cooled, graphite moderated reactor. The fuel elements consist of 6 cm diameter spherical graphite “pebbles” containing each thousands of uranium dioxide microspheres. As the...

The effect of adding extra inlet channels on the operation of the Stairmand Cyclone has been investigated numerically. The Reynolds stress model (RSM) and Eulerian-Lagrangian method were used to investigate the complex turbulent flow and cyclone performance. The impacts of one-way coupling and two-way coupling models on the cyclone efficiency and the calculation of cut-off size diameter were ex...

For developing a reliable data-driven Reynold stress tensor (RST) model, successful reconstruction of the mean velocity field based on high-fidelity information (i.e., direct numerical simulations or large-eddy simulations) is crucial and challenging, considering ill-conditioning problem Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) equations. It shown that frozen treatment Reynolds force vector (RFV)...

In order to study the effect of dust outlet geometry on the performance of cyclone separators, the gas-solid flow characteristics in four cyclone separators with different dust outlet geometries (without dustbin, with dustbin, with dipleg and with dustbin plus dipleg) have been computationally simulated. The gas flow fields were simulated with Reynolds Stress Model(RSM).The effect of instantane...

High-rise building complexes are of great importance for enabling sustainable urban development in large parts the world. Earlier studies have indicated that high wind speed regions can be present along passage between two high-rise buildings as well above roofs. At such locations, energy could harvested by installing turbines and/or roof buildings. However, available potential around an array ...

Microscopic structure in bubbly flows is a topic of interest in the study of fluid flows. In the present paper, the Ultrasonic Doppler Method was applied to the measurement of bubbly flows from which Reynolds stress profiles were obtained. Experiments were carried out for an air-water dispersed bubbly flow in a 20mm x 100 mm vertical rectangular channel having a void fraction smaller than 3%. T...

Spur dike is a common hydraulic structure, which is widely used in hydraulic engineering such as channel regulation, flood prevention and river diversion for preserving the desired water depth, deflecting the main current and protecting river banks. In actual operations, spur dikes exert influence on river system usually in the form of groups, and the flow field around spur dike group is compli...

The present work considers the turbulent air flow inside an annular high speed rotor-stator cavity opened to the atmosphere at the periphery. The interdisk-spacing is sufficiently large so that the boundary layers developed on each disk are separated and the flow belongs to the regime IV of Daily and Nece (1960). In such a system, the solid body rotation of the core predicted by Batchelor in ca...