In this study, turbulent flow around a tube bundle in non-orthogonal grid is simulated using the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) technique and parallelization of fully coupled Navier – Stokes (NS) equations. To model the small eddies, the Smagorinsky and a mixed model was used. This model represents the effect of dissipation and the grid-scale and subgrid-scale interactions. The fully coupled NS eq...

turbulent mixed convection of a nanofluid (water/al2o3, φ=.02) has been studied numerically. two-phase mixture model has been used to investigate the effects of nanoparticles mean diameter on the flow parameters. nanoparticles distribution at the tube cross section shows that the particles are uniformly dispersed. the non-uniformity of the particles distribution occurs in the case of large nano...

The electroweak phase transition, if proceeding through nucleation and growth of bubbles, should generate large scale turbulent flow, which in turn generates magnetic turbulence and hence magnetic fields on the scale of turbulent flow. We discuss the seeding of this turbulent field by the motion of the dipole charge layers in the phase transition bubble walls, and estimate the strength of the p...

this paper presents a three-dimensional numerical investigation carried out in turbulent forced convection in a tube with helical ribs. enhancement of heat transfer using helically corrugated tubes has beenstudied experimentally by many researchers but there exist a few published numerical analyses results. the paper also introduces the results of heat transfer and friction factor data for inco...

in this paper, convection heat transfer of al2o3-water nanofluid turbulent flow through internally ribbed tubes with different rib shapes (rectangular, trapezoidal and semi-circular) is numerically investigated. for each rib shape, the optimum geometric ratio and volume fraction were calculated using entropy generation minimization technique. the governing equations in steady state and axisymme...

Background The blood flow through aortic coarctations can undergo transition to turbulence, as the narrowing causes the velocity to increase. Increased levels of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) are undesirable, as energy is drawn from the mean flow to the turbulent fluctuations. It has recently been shown that TKE in blood flow can be measured with MRI [1], and the aim of this study is to assess...

secondary flow investigation could be regarded as an important issue in open channel flow, in spite of its lower quantity compared to the base flow in the water course. it should be given special consideration because of the influence on some hydraulic factors in open channel, specifically in compound channels. in compound channels' due to the difference in the flow velocity of the main ch...

The inability to capture the physics of solid-particle suspension in turbulent fluid flow is holding back application of multiphase computational fluid dynamics techniques to the many problems involving particle suspension in nature and society. We present a theory for particle suspension capacity near no-slip frictional boundaries of turbulent flows. The suspension capacity parameter Γ include...

A hydraulic jump is a rapidly-varied open channel flow characterised by the sudden transition from a supercritical flow motion to a subcritical regime. The transition is associated with a rapid increase of water depth, a highly turbulent flow with macro-scale vortices, significant kinetic energy dissipation, a two-phase flow region and some strong turbulence interactions with the free surface l...