Sintered metal porous media currently plays an important role in air bearing systems. When flowing through porous media, the flow properties are generally represented by incompressible Darcy-Forchheimer regime or Ergun regime. In this study, a modified Ergun equation, which includes air compressibility effects, is developed to describe friction characteristic. Experimental and theoretical inves...

Crumb rubber media have been beneficially invented for ballast water and tertiary wastewater treatment. There is a critical need for precise prediction of clean-bed head loss for engineering design purposes. Pilot crumb rubber filters were tested to study their clean-bed head loss under the influences of three design and operational parameters media size, media depth, and filtration rate . Data...

A three-dimensional numerical model is proposed to determine the pressure drops in porous media consisting of obstacles of different sizes. A series of full three-dimensional numerical calculations were performed to reveal complex three-dimensional velocity and pressure fields within three-dimensional porous structures consisting of spheres of different sizes. These numerical results are proces...

abstract rockfill dams are usually used for affecting the flood and reducing the peak discharge. the materials used in these dams will usually make the flow turbulent, therefore darcy's law can not be used for this kind of dams and the equations based on the non-darcy flow must be applied. non-darcy flow equations are showed in two general ways including: and .one of the main parameters for flo...

Changes in fluidization behaviour of green peas particulates with change in moisture content during drying were investigated using a fluidized bed dryer. All drying experiments were conducted at 50 + 2 0C and 13 + 2 % RH using a heat pump dehumidifier system. Fluidization experiments were undertaken for the bedheights of 100, 80, 60 and 40 mm and at 10 moisture content levels. Fluidization beha...

In this study, using the lattice Boltzmann method, we simulate soot accumulation in porous media to examine the particle trap in a diesel particulate filter (DPF). The porous media are numerically formed for different inner structure with given porosity. The porous structure similar to the real sample, Ni-Cr metal, can be obtained, where the pressure fields in both cases are almost the same. In...

The small open area available at the slots of underdrains in pressurized granular bed filters for drip irrigation implies: (1) existence a region with non-uniform flow, and (2) local values modified particle Reynolds number >500. These flow conditions may disagree those accepted as valid common pressure drop-flow rate correlations proposed packed beds. Here, we carried out detailed computati...