3-D numerical investigation of the wall-bounded concentric annulus flow around a cylindrical body with a special array of cylinders

Concentric annulus flow around a combinational cylindrical body with a special array of cylinders at five high Reynolds numbers is investigated numerically using Fluent 6.3.26 in this paper. The numerical results show a good agreement with the experimental data in regard to the axial velocity of the flow. This study focuses on the flow structure and the hydrodynamic characteristics based on the velocity distribution, the pressure distribution, streamlines and vectors under I-D, 2-D and 3-D condi- tions. Meanwhile, some global parameters including the pressure coefficient, the drag coefficient and the lift coefficient are analyzed. Numerical results show that the high velocity region and the reverse wake zone with low velocity exist in some spaces due to the disturbance of the cylindrical body. Negative pressures appear in some regions. Neither a wide area vortex nor the vortex shedding appears in the wall-bounded domain. The drag along the axial direction is the main force acting on the cylindrical body in the pipe domain. The annulus flow around the cylindrical body is analyzed to reveal the hydrodynamic characteristics of the complex turbule- nt concentric annulus flow field due to the multi-effects in the pipeline.

Numerical investigation of the concentric annulus flow around a cylindrical body with contrasted effecting factors

This paper studies the wall-bounded flow around a cylindrical at a high Reynolds numbers body in a determined computational domain, with simulations of the 3-D, turbulent concentric annulus flow in a straight pipe. Numerical results show that a reversing zone, appearing as a tongue zone with nested velocities higher than the surrounding area, exists behind the cylindrical body. The annulus space is a region of high velocity and low pressure. The zero velocity, of combined the X- velocity and the Y- velocity, exists in the cross sections and no vortex shedding is formed behind the attaching cylinders. Among all investigated effecting factors, the diameters of the attaching and the main cylinders affect the wake feature behind the cylindrical body while the main cylinder length does not affect the distribution tendency of the flow field. The diameters of the main cylinder and the pipe affect the pressure values and the distribution tendencies on the main cylinder surface. Obviously, the increase of the pipe diameter reduces the drag coefficient of the cylindrical body and the increase of the diameter of the main cylinder increases the drag coefficient greatly. The numerical investigation of the concentric annulus flow provides foundations for further improvements of the intricate flow studies.

Experimental Study of Heating Fluid between Two Concentric Cylinders with Cavities

In this paper, we are concerned with the heating fluid in the annular space between two concentric cylinders where the inner cylinder with cavities is rotated and the outer cylinder is at rest. The effects of cavities of the inner cylinder on the heating fluid and the cavitation behavior are examined. We measured the flow rate, rotating speed of rotor, friction torque, temperature rise and pressure drop between inlet and outlet of this device. The flow rate of water ranged from 0.42×10^-4 to 4.59×10^-4 ma/s at the inlet. The friction torque and the quantity of heat of the inner cylinder with cavities were larger than the case of no cavities, and they increased as the rotating speed of inner cylinder increased. The efficiency was close to about 1 as the rotating speed of inner cylinder increased. The behavior of cavitation in the cavity on the surface of inner cylinder was discussed.