An investigation of particulate flow behaviour and sedimentation in curved channel using Euler-Euler approach

Fluid flow through curved duct has been extensively studied for a wide range of applications with a key base of heat transfer and mixing enhancement. Such motivation has provided a fairly comprehensive knowledge of physic and numerical modelling addressing intrinsic vortices structure promoting mixi...

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Main Authors: Chandratilleke, Tilak, Nadim, Nima
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/imarusic/proceedings/19/88.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37454
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author Chandratilleke, Tilak
Nadim, Nima
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Nadim, Nima
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description Fluid flow through curved duct has been extensively studied for a wide range of applications with a key base of heat transfer and mixing enhancement. Such motivation has provided a fairly comprehensive knowledge of physic and numerical modelling addressing intrinsic vortices structure promoting mixing and momentum transfer. This study extends this area to a multi-phase flow case study where liquid-granular phase interaction stands for a commonly seen scenario of bed erosion in a duct flow. Advances in numerical modelling and a wide range of sub-models, specified for momentum exchange, turbulence structure and granular phase behaviour, are examined to achieve a fairly valid model. An Eulerian model is used alongside with k-e turbulence model and granular phase is modelled using a gas dynamic analogy. Results demonstrate a pivotal quantitative and qualitative role of secondary flow in curved duct where dimensionless helicity function is used for study of fluid flow structure associated with boundary reshaping and phase rearrangement.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-374542017-01-30T14:03:23Z An investigation of particulate flow behaviour and sedimentation in curved channel using Euler-Euler approach Chandratilleke, Tilak Nadim, Nima Fluid flow through curved duct has been extensively studied for a wide range of applications with a key base of heat transfer and mixing enhancement. Such motivation has provided a fairly comprehensive knowledge of physic and numerical modelling addressing intrinsic vortices structure promoting mixing and momentum transfer. This study extends this area to a multi-phase flow case study where liquid-granular phase interaction stands for a commonly seen scenario of bed erosion in a duct flow. Advances in numerical modelling and a wide range of sub-models, specified for momentum exchange, turbulence structure and granular phase behaviour, are examined to achieve a fairly valid model. An Eulerian model is used alongside with k-e turbulence model and granular phase is modelled using a gas dynamic analogy. Results demonstrate a pivotal quantitative and qualitative role of secondary flow in curved duct where dimensionless helicity function is used for study of fluid flow structure associated with boundary reshaping and phase rearrangement. 2014 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37454 http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/imarusic/proceedings/19/88.pdf restricted
spellingShingle Chandratilleke, Tilak
Nadim, Nima
An investigation of particulate flow behaviour and sedimentation in curved channel using Euler-Euler approach
title An investigation of particulate flow behaviour and sedimentation in curved channel using Euler-Euler approach
title_full An investigation of particulate flow behaviour and sedimentation in curved channel using Euler-Euler approach
title_fullStr An investigation of particulate flow behaviour and sedimentation in curved channel using Euler-Euler approach
title_full_unstemmed An investigation of particulate flow behaviour and sedimentation in curved channel using Euler-Euler approach
title_short An investigation of particulate flow behaviour and sedimentation in curved channel using Euler-Euler approach
title_sort investigation of particulate flow behaviour and sedimentation in curved channel using euler-euler approach
url http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/imarusic/proceedings/19/88.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37454