Numerical computations of steady and unsteady flow in bended pipes

Collection of Technical Papers - 37th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1850-1859

  Hellstrom, Fredrik ^a,b   Fuchs, Laszlo ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b GM Powertrain   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PIPE; PULSATILE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STEADY FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

BENDED PIPES; INFLOW PULSATIONS; INLET BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES (RANS);

UNSTEADY FLOW;

EID: 35649003022     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-4350     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (18)

1. Wendt, G. Mickan, R. K. R. and Dopheide, D., "Systematic investigation of pipe flows and installation effects using laser Doppler anemometry- PART I. Profile measurements downstream of several pipe configurations and flow conditioners," Flow Measurements and Instrumentations, Vol. 7, 1996, pp. 141-149.
2. Mickan, R. Wendt, G. K. R. and Dopheide, D., "Systematic investigation of pipe flows and installation effects using laser Doppler anemometry- PART II. The effect od disturbed flow profiles on turbine gas meters-a describing empirical model," Flow Measurements and Instrumentations, Vol. 7, 1996, pp. 151-160.
3. Hamakiotes, C. and Berger, S., "Fully developed pulsatile flow in a curved pipe," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 195, 1988, pp. 22-55.
4. Dec, J. E. Keller, J. O. and Hongo, I., "Time-resolved velocities and turbulence in oscillating flow of a pulse combustor tail pipe," Combustion and flame, Vol. 83, 1991, pp. 271-292.
5. Ramaprian, B. R. and Tu, S. W., "Fully developed periodic turbulent pipe flow. Part 2. The detailed structure of the flow," J. of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 137, 1983, pp. 59-81.
6. Sudo, K. Sumida, H. and Hibara, H., "Experimental investigation on turbulent flow through a circular-sectioned 90° bend," Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 25, 1998, pp. 42-49.
7. Anwer, M. So, R. M. C. and Lai, Y. G., "Pertubation and recovery from bend curvature of a fully developd turbulent pipe flow," Physics of Fluid, Vol. 1, 1989, pp. 1387-1397.
8. Mattingly, G. and Yeh, T., "Effects of pipe elbows and tube bundles on selected types of flowmeters," Flow Meas. Instrum, Vol. 2, 1991, pp. 4-13.
9. Steenbergen, W. and Voskamp, J., "The rate of decay of swirl in turbulent pipe flow," Flow Measurements and Instrumentations, Vol. 9, 1998, pp. 67-78.
10. Najafi, A.F. Saidi, M. S. M. and Souhar, M., "Numerical analysis of turbulent swirling decay pipe flow," International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 32, 2005, pp. 627-638.
11. Pruvost, J. Legrand, J. and Legentilhomme, P., "Numerical investigation of bend and torus flows, part I: effect of swirl motion on flow structure in U-bend," Chemical engineering Science, Vol. 59, 2004, pp. 3345-3357.
12. Hilgenstock, A. and Ernst, R., "Analysis of installation effects by means of computational fluid dynamics-CFD vs experiments?" Flow Meas. Instrum, Vol. 7, 1996, pp. 161-171.
13. Iacovides, H. Launder, B. E. and Li, H.-Y., "The computation of flow development through stationary and rotating U-ducts of strong curvature," International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 17, 1996, pp. 22-33.
14. Sugiyama, H. and Hitomi, D., "Numerical analysis of developing flow turbulent flow in a 180° bend tube by an algebraic Reynolds stress model," Int. Journal for Numerical methods in Fluids, Vol. 47, 2005, pp. 1431-1449.
15. Celik, I. B., "Procedure for Estimation and Reporting of Discretization Error in CFD Applications," Internal report, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, West Virgina University, Morgantown Wv, USA, ismail.celik@mail.wvu.edu.
16. Rutten, F. Schroder, W. and Meinke, M., "Large Eddy Simulation of low frequency oscillations of the Dean vortices in turbulent pipe bend flows," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 17, 2005.
17. Berkooz, G., Holmes, P., and Lumley, J., "The Proper Orthogonal Decomposition in the Analysis of Turbulent Flows," Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech., Vol. 25, 1993, pp. 539575., Vol. Vol. 25, 1993, pp. pp. 539575.
18. Jeong, J. and Hussain, F., "On the identifaction of a vortex," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 285, 1995, pp. 69-94.