A model of the flow of two immiscible fluids in a microchannel between two parallel plates was made. The concept of pumping a nonconducting fluid using interfacial viscous shear stress was applied while taking into account the combined effect of the pressure gradient and electroosmosis. To determine the electric potential and flow parameters, the Poisson–Boltzmann equation and modified Navier–Stokes equations were solved for a steady fully-developed laminar flow. The results obtained demonstrate the influence of the pressure difference, the dynamic viscosity ratio, the wall and interfacial zeta potentials, the interface location and the interfacial shear stress on the flow characteristics of both fluids. A comparison of results was performed to validate the developed approach.
This paper presents the numerical investigation of the effects that the pertinent design parameters, including the blade height, the blade number, the outlet blade angle, the blade width, and the impeller diameter, have on the steady state liquid flow in a three-dimensional centrifugal pump. Three cases were considered for this study: impeller, combined impeller and volute, and combined impeller and diffuser. The continuity and Navier-Stokes equations with the k-ε turbulence model and the standard wall functions were used by means of ANSYS-CFX code. The results achieved reveal that the selected key design parameters have an impact on the centrifugal pump performance describing the pump head, the brake horsepower, and the overall efficiency. To valid the developed approach, the results of numerical simulation were compared with the experimental results considering the case of combined impeller and diffuser.
This paper deals with the numerical investigation of a liquid flow in a first stage of a multistage centrifugal pump consisting of an impeller, diffuser with return vanes, and casing. The continuity and Navier-Stokes equations with the k-ε turbulence model and standard wall functions were used. To improve the design of the pump's first stage, the impacts of the impeller blade height and diffuser vane height, number of impeller blades, diffuser vanes and diffuser return vanes, and wall roughness height on the performances of the first stage of a multistage centrifugal pump were analyzed. The results achieved reveal that the selected parameters affect the pump head, brake horsepower, and efficiency in a strong yet different manner. To validate the model developed, the results of the numerical simulations were compared with the experimental results from the pump manufacturer.
The aim of this paper is to investigate numerically the effects of the evaporation rate on combustion of kerosene sprays in a partially premixed pre-vaporized combustion chamber. The simulations are carried out by means of a Eulerian-Lagrangian approach under consideration of a full two-way coupling. Two different evaporation models (equilibrium and non-equilibrium ansatz) based on the uniform temperature assumption were used. The combustion is described by a BML like model modified for partially premixed combustion description as encountered in LPP (Bray-Moss-Libby Modell) configuration. Dodecane, whose chemistry was described by the flamelet model, was used as a surrogate for kerosene. To isolate the effect of evaporation on spray combustion, liquid droplets have been sprayed at different temperature conditions in a partially premixed pre-vaporized combustor as experimentally investigated in [23]. It turned out that the non-equilibrium performs well and allows achieving an overall agreement with experimental data. With this confidence in place, some parameter studies could be carried out and additional informations, that were not experimentally available, could be extracted to gain insights relevant to understanding the effects under study.
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