Computational Fluid Mechanics (CFM)
S. Rasoolzadeh; M. Y. Hashemi
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to numerically simulate unsteady, incompressible, and laminar flow with natural and mixed convection heat transfer in a square lid-driven cavity filled with Cu-Water nanofluid. Jameson method is used in conjunction with the Artificial compressibility method on the unstructured ...
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The purpose of this paper is to numerically simulate unsteady, incompressible, and laminar flow with natural and mixed convection heat transfer in a square lid-driven cavity filled with Cu-Water nanofluid. Jameson method is used in conjunction with the Artificial compressibility method on the unstructured grid in a viscous flow. Effects of Grashof number and nanoparticle volume fraction on the flow and heat transfer characteristics are investigated. Two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations as the governing equations of the problem are discretized with the finite volume method. Spatial discretization is performed with a two-order central scheme; and Jameson artificial dissipation terms are added to equations to stabilize the solution. Unsteady terms are discretized with an implicit two-order scheme and are solved with fourth-order explicit Runge-Kutta method in pseudo-time. It is found that the Jameson method has good performance with a reasonable convergence rate. Results show that an increase in the volume fraction of nanoparticles improves heat transfer characteristics while the increase in the Grashof number, weakens the heat transfer due to the domination of natural convection.
Computational Fluid Mechanics (CFM)
Hamid Reza Nazif
Abstract
Hydrodynamic of a turbulent impinging jet on a flat plate has been studied experimentally and numerically. Experiments were conducted for the Reynolds number range of 72000 to 102000 and a fixed jet-to-plate dimensionless distance of H/d=3.5. Based on the experimental setup, a multi-phase numerical model ...
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Hydrodynamic of a turbulent impinging jet on a flat plate has been studied experimentally and numerically. Experiments were conducted for the Reynolds number range of 72000 to 102000 and a fixed jet-to-plate dimensionless distance of H/d=3.5. Based on the experimental setup, a multi-phase numerical model was simulated to predict flow properties of impinging jets using two turbulent models. Mesh-independency of the numerical model was studied to ensure the preciseness of the results. Numerical and experimental forces on the target plate were compared to examine the performance of turbulent models and wall functions. As a result, the force obtained by the Reynolds stress turbulent model alongside with non-equilibrium wall function was in good agreement with the experiment. The correlation equations were obtained for predicting the water thickness over the target plate and impingement force versus Reynolds number. It was also indicated that the maximum shear stress on the target plate was located at radial dimensionless distance of r/d=0.75.
