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Identification of Critical Parameters of Flows in Multi-Narrow Gap

Coaxial Short Cylinder
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10800
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320
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Abstract
The complex flows in Multi-Narrow Gap Coaxial Short Cylinder are the combination of Couette
flow in a four-couple coaxial short cylinders with different radius that comprise the axial bound influences

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along each set of cylinder. The first set of Multi-Narrow Gap Coaxial Short Cylinder turns with constant
angular velocity while the second set is kept unmoving. The characteristics of this flow are the instability
of flow pattern which occur when the angular velocity of the first set of Multi-Narrow Gap Coaxial Short
Cylinder reaches some critical values. This research studies the critical angular velocity takes place from
the evolution of the laminar regime to the transition and from the transition regime to the turbulence
regime. With the help of finite volume method, the system of continuity and momentum equation is solved
and the flow behavior based on the turbulence model, Large Eddy Simulation, in Computational Fluid
Dynamic commercial software is visualized through the numerical simulation. Purposely, this research can
be identified the subcritical angular velocity and the supercritical angular velocity which are equal to 290
rpm and 320 rpm, respectively. In addition, the flow also changes from Couette flow to Taylor vortices
and from Taylor vortices to wavy vortices when the angular velocities reach the critical values.
Keywords: Coaxial Cylinder, Critical Velocity, Instability, LES, CFD, Couette flow, Taylor vortices flow,
wavy vortices flow
1.







( )






" " Maurice Marie
Alfred Couette




3

Sir Geoffrey
Ingram Taylor

" (Taylor vortices)"
"

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(subcritical velocity)"


" (Wavy vortices)"




S.T.Wereley[2,3] particle image velocimetry
(PIV)

P.S.Marcus[4]
shiftt and reflect

D. Pirr[5] (DNS)



O.Czarny [6,7]

J.Y.Hwang [8]

Wereley and Lueptow

I. Raspo [9]



L.A. Bordag [10]

S.Kumar [11]

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U m s

P m s
U
ms
u
ms
m 2 s
kg m s
kg m3
rpm.
y +
yP m
w N m 2

2.
2.1

(r , , z )

1 2

U = (U r , U , U z ) (
1)

P = ( Pr , P , Pz )
(2)

- 3 4

U = 0 (3)

2
dU
1
+ (U )U = U + U
dt

(4)

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2.2

= 998.2 kg m3

=
0.001003kg m s


(Fluctuation)

5 6

(RAM)
U= U + u (5)
(CPU)

P= P + p

(6)
4 5
-
7 8

(U + u ) = 0

(7)

d (U + u )
+ (U + u ) (U + u )
dt
2
1
= (U + u ) + (U + u )

(8)

y +
(wall bounded
flow) y + 9
10
y + = u yP
(9)

u = w

(10)

1
45
r z 23,200

40 40
100
(Hexahedral)
(Structure Grid) 2,320,000 2

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y +
1 y + = 1

400

1.27 105 m
1.0 105 m 2
r z





3.

ANSYS 12.0

(Pressure based
solver) -
(Pressure-Velocity Coupling) PISO

SGS Smagorinsky - Lilly

3
1

=
U (U
=
U z = 0, U = r ) (8)
r
2

=
U (U
=
U=
U=
0) (9)
r
z

(No-slip condition)
3

U (U
U=
U=
0) (10)
=
=
r
z

P = 1 atm (11)
5 Periodic
3

4
2

2
r

(Discretization)
PRESTO Bounded Central
Differencing
Large Eddy Simulation (LES)

2
3

4.

(residuals)

- 10 -3

( transient)

4

r z
90
r z

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-0.001, -0.002, -0.003, -0.004, -0.005
5

4
z 90

5
r
90
4.1


290
4 5


r z
6

6



2 4

7 8

1 3

6
r z 290

7
r z 290

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8

4.2

320
2
4 9

10

shift and reflect

11

4


1
3

5.

9 r z
320

10
r z 320

11

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90
290

290

320


320

6.



(.)
(DMIE)

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