The filling and exhausting processes in a pneumatic system are involved with many factors, and numerical solutions of many partial differential equations are always adapted in the study of those processes, which have ...The filling and exhausting processes in a pneumatic system are involved with many factors, and numerical solutions of many partial differential equations are always adapted in the study of those processes, which have been proved to be troublesome and less intuitive. Analytical solutions based on loss-less tube model and average friction tube model are found respectively by using fluid net theory, and they fit the experimental results well. The research work shows that： Fluid net theory can be used to solve the analytical solution of filling and exhausting processes of pneumatic system, and the result of loss-less tube model is close to that of average friction model, so loss-less tube model is recommended since it is simpler, and the difference between filling time and exhausting time is determined by initial and final pressures, the volume of container and the section area of tube, and has nothing to do with the length of the tube.展开更多
A computational study on the flow development through tandem double-U-shaped-tubes compact heat exchangers inside exhaust nozzle is presented.In order to simplify the computational process on modeling the flow field,t...A computational study on the flow development through tandem double-U-shaped-tubes compact heat exchangers inside exhaust nozzle is presented.In order to simplify the computational process on modeling the flow field,the compact heat exchanger is modeled as a porous matrix by using an isotropic porous medium assumption,which makes two-dimensional numerical simulation realistic.With the use of an existed quadratic relation which connects the pressure drop with the inlet velocity in the external part of the heat exchanger,the permeability and drag coefficient in the porous medium model are determined and a corresponding computational method validation is also made.Two schemes of tandem double-U-shaped-tubes compact heat exchangers are numerically analyzed.In relative to the baseline scheme,the modified scheme is improved by smoothing the nozzle expansion,varying heat exchanger mounting angle and installing boat-tail ramp at the trailing edge of the last heat exchanger.The results show that the pressure losses due to the existence of local recirculation zones and inappropriate distribution of the flow field are reduced in the modified scheme.The pressure loss coefficient is decreased from 1.7% under the baseline scheme to 1.2% under the modified scheme.展开更多
基金This project is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.50575209).
文摘The filling and exhausting processes in a pneumatic system are involved with many factors, and numerical solutions of many partial differential equations are always adapted in the study of those processes, which have been proved to be troublesome and less intuitive. Analytical solutions based on loss-less tube model and average friction tube model are found respectively by using fluid net theory, and they fit the experimental results well. The research work shows that： Fluid net theory can be used to solve the analytical solution of filling and exhausting processes of pneumatic system, and the result of loss-less tube model is close to that of average friction model, so loss-less tube model is recommended since it is simpler, and the difference between filling time and exhausting time is determined by initial and final pressures, the volume of container and the section area of tube, and has nothing to do with the length of the tube.
文摘A computational study on the flow development through tandem double-U-shaped-tubes compact heat exchangers inside exhaust nozzle is presented.In order to simplify the computational process on modeling the flow field,the compact heat exchanger is modeled as a porous matrix by using an isotropic porous medium assumption,which makes two-dimensional numerical simulation realistic.With the use of an existed quadratic relation which connects the pressure drop with the inlet velocity in the external part of the heat exchanger,the permeability and drag coefficient in the porous medium model are determined and a corresponding computational method validation is also made.Two schemes of tandem double-U-shaped-tubes compact heat exchangers are numerically analyzed.In relative to the baseline scheme,the modified scheme is improved by smoothing the nozzle expansion,varying heat exchanger mounting angle and installing boat-tail ramp at the trailing edge of the last heat exchanger.The results show that the pressure losses due to the existence of local recirculation zones and inappropriate distribution of the flow field are reduced in the modified scheme.The pressure loss coefficient is decreased from 1.7% under the baseline scheme to 1.2% under the modified scheme.
