Analysis and Numerical Simulation of Liquid-Solid Two-Phase Flow
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3.3.2 Calculated Examples of Two-Turbulent Flow by Using Two-
Fluid Model
Numerical Simulation of Liquid-Particle (or Gas) Two-Phase Turbulent
Flow through a Centrifugal Pump Impeller
The numerical approaches and the computer program has been applied to
calculate the single-phase incompressible turbulent flow through a rectangular
region with backward-facing step with comparison to the measured data
[3.25],
where the maximum differences between calculated- and measured-
data is less than 7%, and through a centrifugal impeller with comparison to
the experimental results by the PIV technique
[3.26].
On the bases of the theory of two-fluid model for multiphase flow, the
dispersed phase in these flow, at dilute concentration conditions, can be
assumed to be a pseudo-fluid, which occupies a certain fraction volume in the
whole flow domain shared with the continuum phase, i.e., the real fluid phase.
According to this assumption, the simulation of two-dimensional two-phase
flow through a centrifugal pump impeller has been conducted by using the
k
—
s-A turbulence model and the SIMPLEC algorithm at dilute
concentration conditions, for example, Cv (volume concentration) is less than
5%.
Boundary Conditions for Calculations of Liquid-Particle Two-Phase
Turbulent Flow through a Centrifugal Pump Impeller
* Flow in liquid phase
(a) Inlet boundary. The inlet values of the radial velocity component u
r]
and the circumferential one u
m
=
co
r
\
are directly specified and easily altered.
The inlet value of turbulent kinetic energy k
in
adopts 0.5 ~ 1.5% of the inlet
mean kinetic energy of flow, that is,
k
in
= 0.005tt
r
2
,
//„„= puj /100.0
where / is the specific length of
the
inlet boundary, /u
t
the eddy viscosity. The
values of k
jn
, ju
tin
and s
in
do not severely affect on the final results.