Mutual Similarity in Laminar Pipe Flows with Secondary Flows. Curved Pipe and Orthogonally Rotating Pipe.

Development length of laminar magnetohydrodynamics pipe flows

In this article, a laminar magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) developing flow of an incompressible electrically conducting fluid subjected to an external magnetic field is considered. The aim of the study is to propose a correlation for computing the development length of the laminar MHD developing flow in a pipe. A numerical approach is considered to solve the problem. In the first step, the numerical...

Efficiency of osmotic pipe flows.

We present experiments and theory for flows of sugar or salt solutions in cylindrical tubes with semipermeable walls (hollow fiber membranes) immersed in water, quantifying the strength of the osmotic driving force in relation to the dimensionless parameters that specify the system. The pumping efficiency of these flows is limited by the presence of "unstirred" concentration boundary layers nea...

Vortexons in axisymmetric Poiseuille pipe flows

We present a study on the nonlinear dynamics of small long-wave disturbances to the laminar state in non-rotating axisymmetric Poiseuille pipe flows. At high Reynolds numbers, the associated Navier-Stokes equations can be reduced to a set of coupled Korteweg–de Vries-type (KdV) equations that support inviscid and smooth travelling waves numerically computed using the Petviashvili method. In phy...

Convective Heat Transfer of Nanofluids Flows Through an Isothermally Heated Curved Pipe

Micro-Bubbly Flows in Rotating Pipe Sections with Abrupt Expansion and Contraction∗

An investigation was carried out for swirling flow in a rotating pipe with highly viscous fluid containing micro-bubbles experimentally and numerically. In the numerical analysis, bubble trajectory of each bubble was calculated using resultant numerical flow field solutions. From experimental results, with an aid of the numerical simulation, data were obtained for the location of a stagnation p...