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Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, 2014, Volume 55, Issue 6, Pages 60–73 (Mi pmtf1007)  

This article is cited in 14 scientific papers (total in 14 papers)

Numerical study of the influence of geometrical characteristics of a vertical helical coil on a bubbly flow

H. Saffari, R. Moosavi

Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
Abstract: In this article, turbulent single-phase and two-phase (air-water) bubbly fluid flows in a vertical helical coil are analyzed by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The effects of the pipe diameter, coil diameter, coil pitch, Reynolds number, and void fraction on the pressure loss, friction coefficient, and flow characteristics are investigated. The Eulerian–Eulerian model is used in this work to simulate the two-phase fluid flow. Three-dimensional governing equations of continuity, momentum, and energy are solved by using the finite volume method. The $k{-}\varepsilon$ turbulence model is used to calculate turbulence fluctuations. The SIMPLE algorithm is employed to solve the velocity and pressure fields. Due to the effect of a secondary force in helical pipes, the friction coefficient is found to be higher in helical pipes than in straight pipes. The friction coefficient increases with an increase in the curvature, pipe diameter, and coil pitch and decreases with an increase in the coil diameter and void fraction. The close correlation between the numerical results obtained in this study and the numerical and empirical results of other researchers confirm the accuracy of the applied method. For void fractions up to 0.1, the numerical results indicate that the friction coefficient increases with increasing the pipe diameter and keeping the coil pitch and diameter constant and decreases with increasing the coil diameter. Finally, with an increase in the Reynolds number, the friction coefficient decreases, while the void fraction increases.
Keywords: two-phase turbulent flow, Eulerian–Eulerian model, CFD, helical coil.
Received: 01.11.2012
Revised: 06.03.2013
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Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics, 2014, Volume 55, Issue 6, Pages 957–969
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021894414060066
Bibliographic databases:
Document Type: Article
UDC: 532.5; 536.2
Language: Russian
Citation: H. Saffari, R. Moosavi, “Numerical study of the influence of geometrical characteristics of a vertical helical coil on a bubbly flow”, Prikl. Mekh. Tekh. Fiz., 55:6 (2014), 60–73; J. Appl. Mech. Tech. Phys., 55:6 (2014), 957–969
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