Correction of low-Reynolds number turbulence model to hydrocarbon fuel at supercritical pressure
| Autor: | Zhi Tao, Longyun Wang, Jianqin Zhu, Zeyuan Cheng, Xizhuo Hu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Buoyancy Materials science Turbulence Flow (psychology) Aerospace Engineering Reynolds number 02 engineering and technology Mechanics engineering.material 01 natural sciences Supercritical fluid 010305 fluids & plasmas Physics::Fluid Dynamics symbols.namesake 020303 mechanical engineering & transports 0203 mechanical engineering Heat flux 0103 physical sciences Heat transfer symbols engineering |
| Zdroj: | Aerospace Science and Technology. 77:156-167 |
| ISSN: | 1270-9638 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ast.2018.02.038 |
| Popis: | At supercritical pressure, due to the drastic change of thermophysical property near the pseudo-critical temperature, the density fluctuation and density variation, along with buoyancy, play an important role in supercritical turbulence modelling. Based on the original LS (Launder–Sharma) low-Reynolds number turbulence model, the buoyancy modification, the density fluctuation modification, the density variation modification and the empirical coefficients modification are considered and the corresponding correction terms are derived and applied in the governing equations. Numerical simulation of heat transfer to hydrocarbon fuel flowing through the uniformly heated round pipe at supercritical pressure has been performed by the modified LS turbulence model incorporated into the in-house numerical code. Inlet temperature varied from 373 K to 473 K, with heat flux varying from 241 kW/m2 to 470 kW/m2. Inlet mass flux was 736 kg/(m2⋅s) and operating pressure was 4 MPa. The flow directions included upflow and downflow. Compared with the original LS turbulence model, the modified LS turbulence model leads to the better agreement with the experimental results, with 41.16% improvement in computation accuracy in the current study. The consideration of density fluctuation and density variation effects makes the turbulence model more suitable for thermophysical property variation at supercritical pressure. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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