The Preston's method is considered as one of the most commonly employed methods to measure the wall shear stress. However, it is only possible to determine the wall shear stress from measured pressure differences of ...The Preston's method is considered as one of the most commonly employed methods to measure the wall shear stress. However, it is only possible to determine the wall shear stress from measured pressure differences of the Preston tube and undisturbed static pressure, combined with calibration curves, which depend on the Preston tube diameter, fluid density, and viscosity. Since its invention, no significant advancement in theory has been made, and calibration curves proposed by Preston, Patel and Bechert are still in use. In the present study, a need to measure surface shear stress over a circular cylinder prompted us to develop our original Preston tube system. The developed system has been calibrated by measuring the wall shear stress in the fully developed turbulent flow regime in a circular pipe. The present results generally confirm the previously reported calibration curves. A slight modification of the coefficients in the calibration equation shows further improvement.展开更多
A model for gas–liquid annular and stratified flow through a horizontal pipe is investigated, using the two-phase hydrokinetics theory. Taking into consideration the flow factors including the void fraction, the fric...A model for gas–liquid annular and stratified flow through a horizontal pipe is investigated, using the two-phase hydrokinetics theory. Taking into consideration the flow factors including the void fraction, the friction between the two phases and the entrainment in the gas core, the one-dimensional momentum equation for gas has been solved. The differential pressure of the wet gas between the two tapings in the straight pipe has been modeled in the pressure range of 0.1–0.8 MPa. In addition a more objective iteration approach to determine the local void fraction is proposed. Compared with the experimental data, more than 83% deviation of the test data distributed evenly within the band of ± 10%. Since the model is less dependent on the specific empirical apparatus and data,it forms the foundation for further establishing a flow measurement model of wet gas which will produce fewer biases in results when it is extrapolated.展开更多
The present work introduces a mathematical model for ionic fluid that flows under the effect of both pulsating pressure and axial electromagnetic field. The fluid is treated as a Newtonian fluid applying Navier-Stokes...The present work introduces a mathematical model for ionic fluid that flows under the effect of both pulsating pressure and axial electromagnetic field. The fluid is treated as a Newtonian fluid applying Navier-Stokes equation. The fluid is considered as a neutral mixture of positive and negative ions. The effect of axial electric field is investigated to determine velocity profiles. Hydroelectric equation of the flow is deduced under dc and ac external electric field. Hence the effect of applied frequency (0-1 GHz) and amplitude (10-350 V/m) is illustrated. The ultimate goal is to approach the problem of EMF field interaction with blood flow. The applied pressure waveform is represented as such to simulate the systolic-diastolic behavior. Simulation was carried out using Maple software using blood plasma parameters; hence velocity profiles under various conditions are reported.展开更多
This study presents the LES (large eddy simulation) of forced convection in laminar and two dimensional turbulent flows when the flow reaches the steady state. The main purpose is the evaluation of a developed numer...This study presents the LES (large eddy simulation) of forced convection in laminar and two dimensional turbulent flows when the flow reaches the steady state. The main purpose is the evaluation of a developed numerical methodology for the simulation of forced convection flows at various Reynolds numbers (100 _〈 Rex 〈_ 10,000) and for a fixed Prandtl number (Pr = 1.0). The hexahedral eight-node FEM (finite element method) with an explicit Taylor-Galerkin scheme is used to obtain the numerical solutions of the conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy. The Smagorinsky model is employed for the sub-grid treatment. The time-averaged velocity and temperature profiles are compared with results of literature and a CFD (computational fluid dynamics) package based on finite volume method, leading to a highest deviation of nearly 6%. Moreover, characteristics of the forced convection flows are properly obtained, e.g., the effect of the Reynolds number over the multiplicity of scales.展开更多
Implicit smoothed particle hydrodynamics method has been proposed to overcome the problem that only very small time steps can be used for high viscosity fluids(such as power law fluids)in order to obtain a stable simu...Implicit smoothed particle hydrodynamics method has been proposed to overcome the problem that only very small time steps can be used for high viscosity fluids(such as power law fluids)in order to obtain a stable simulation.However,the pressure field is difficult to simulate correctly with this method because the numerical high-frequency noise on the pressure field cannot be removed.In this study,several improvements,which are the diffusive term in the continuity equation,the artificial viscosity and a simplified physical viscosity term in the momentum equation,are introduced,and a new boundary treatment is also proposed.The linear equations derived from the momentum equation are large-scale,sparse and positive definite but unsymmetrical,therefore,Conjugate Gradient Squared(CGS)is used to solve them.For the purpose of verifying the validity of the proposed method,Poiseuille flows with Newtonian and power law fluids are solved and compared with exact solution and traditional SPH.Drops of different fluid properties impacting a rigid wall are also simulated and compared with VOF solution.All the numerical results obtained by the proposed method agree well with available data.The proposed method shows the higher efficiency than traditional SPH and the less numerical noise on the pressure field and better stability than implicit SPH.展开更多
In this study a mathematical model for two-dimensional pulsatile blood flow through overlapping constricted tapered vessels is presented. In order to establish resemblance to the in vivo conditions, an improved shape ...In this study a mathematical model for two-dimensional pulsatile blood flow through overlapping constricted tapered vessels is presented. In order to establish resemblance to the in vivo conditions, an improved shape of the time-variant overlapping stenosis in the elastic tapered artery subject to pulsatile pressure gradient is considered. Because it contains a suspension of all erythrocytes, the flowing blood is represented by micropolar fluid. By applying a suitable coordinate transformation, tapered cosine-shaped artery turned into non-tapered rectangular and a rigid artery. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations under the imposed realistic boundary conditions are solved using the finite difference method. The effects of vessel tapering on flow characteristics consid- ering their dependencies with time are investigated. The results show that by increasing the taper angle the axial velocity and volumetric flow rate increase and the microrota- tional velocity and resistive impedance reduce. It has been shown that the results are in agreement with similar data from the literature.展开更多
文摘The Preston's method is considered as one of the most commonly employed methods to measure the wall shear stress. However, it is only possible to determine the wall shear stress from measured pressure differences of the Preston tube and undisturbed static pressure, combined with calibration curves, which depend on the Preston tube diameter, fluid density, and viscosity. Since its invention, no significant advancement in theory has been made, and calibration curves proposed by Preston, Patel and Bechert are still in use. In the present study, a need to measure surface shear stress over a circular cylinder prompted us to develop our original Preston tube system. The developed system has been calibrated by measuring the wall shear stress in the fully developed turbulent flow regime in a circular pipe. The present results generally confirm the previously reported calibration curves. A slight modification of the coefficients in the calibration equation shows further improvement.
基金Supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China(61603207 and61571252)Tsinghua University Shenzhen Graduate School Grant(050100001)
文摘A model for gas–liquid annular and stratified flow through a horizontal pipe is investigated, using the two-phase hydrokinetics theory. Taking into consideration the flow factors including the void fraction, the friction between the two phases and the entrainment in the gas core, the one-dimensional momentum equation for gas has been solved. The differential pressure of the wet gas between the two tapings in the straight pipe has been modeled in the pressure range of 0.1–0.8 MPa. In addition a more objective iteration approach to determine the local void fraction is proposed. Compared with the experimental data, more than 83% deviation of the test data distributed evenly within the band of ± 10%. Since the model is less dependent on the specific empirical apparatus and data,it forms the foundation for further establishing a flow measurement model of wet gas which will produce fewer biases in results when it is extrapolated.
文摘The present work introduces a mathematical model for ionic fluid that flows under the effect of both pulsating pressure and axial electromagnetic field. The fluid is treated as a Newtonian fluid applying Navier-Stokes equation. The fluid is considered as a neutral mixture of positive and negative ions. The effect of axial electric field is investigated to determine velocity profiles. Hydroelectric equation of the flow is deduced under dc and ac external electric field. Hence the effect of applied frequency (0-1 GHz) and amplitude (10-350 V/m) is illustrated. The ultimate goal is to approach the problem of EMF field interaction with blood flow. The applied pressure waveform is represented as such to simulate the systolic-diastolic behavior. Simulation was carried out using Maple software using blood plasma parameters; hence velocity profiles under various conditions are reported.
文摘This study presents the LES (large eddy simulation) of forced convection in laminar and two dimensional turbulent flows when the flow reaches the steady state. The main purpose is the evaluation of a developed numerical methodology for the simulation of forced convection flows at various Reynolds numbers (100 _〈 Rex 〈_ 10,000) and for a fixed Prandtl number (Pr = 1.0). The hexahedral eight-node FEM (finite element method) with an explicit Taylor-Galerkin scheme is used to obtain the numerical solutions of the conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy. The Smagorinsky model is employed for the sub-grid treatment. The time-averaged velocity and temperature profiles are compared with results of literature and a CFD (computational fluid dynamics) package based on finite volume method, leading to a highest deviation of nearly 6%. Moreover, characteristics of the forced convection flows are properly obtained, e.g., the effect of the Reynolds number over the multiplicity of scales.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51276192)
文摘Implicit smoothed particle hydrodynamics method has been proposed to overcome the problem that only very small time steps can be used for high viscosity fluids(such as power law fluids)in order to obtain a stable simulation.However,the pressure field is difficult to simulate correctly with this method because the numerical high-frequency noise on the pressure field cannot be removed.In this study,several improvements,which are the diffusive term in the continuity equation,the artificial viscosity and a simplified physical viscosity term in the momentum equation,are introduced,and a new boundary treatment is also proposed.The linear equations derived from the momentum equation are large-scale,sparse and positive definite but unsymmetrical,therefore,Conjugate Gradient Squared(CGS)is used to solve them.For the purpose of verifying the validity of the proposed method,Poiseuille flows with Newtonian and power law fluids are solved and compared with exact solution and traditional SPH.Drops of different fluid properties impacting a rigid wall are also simulated and compared with VOF solution.All the numerical results obtained by the proposed method agree well with available data.The proposed method shows the higher efficiency than traditional SPH and the less numerical noise on the pressure field and better stability than implicit SPH.
文摘In this study a mathematical model for two-dimensional pulsatile blood flow through overlapping constricted tapered vessels is presented. In order to establish resemblance to the in vivo conditions, an improved shape of the time-variant overlapping stenosis in the elastic tapered artery subject to pulsatile pressure gradient is considered. Because it contains a suspension of all erythrocytes, the flowing blood is represented by micropolar fluid. By applying a suitable coordinate transformation, tapered cosine-shaped artery turned into non-tapered rectangular and a rigid artery. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations under the imposed realistic boundary conditions are solved using the finite difference method. The effects of vessel tapering on flow characteristics consid- ering their dependencies with time are investigated. The results show that by increasing the taper angle the axial velocity and volumetric flow rate increase and the microrota- tional velocity and resistive impedance reduce. It has been shown that the results are in agreement with similar data from the literature.