简介:Lid-drivenmixedconvectionhasbeengivenimmenseimportanceduetoitswiderangeofapplications.AT-shapedcavityisintroducedandpertinentparameterscontrollingmixedconvectionphenomenonareanalyzedinthispaper.Water-Al2O3nanofluidisconsideredinsidethecavitytoaugmentheattransferrate.Galerkinweightedresidualmethodoffiniteelementanalysisisappliedforthenumericalsimulations.Numericalsolutionisobtainedfordifferentsolidvolumefractionsofnanofluid(?=0-0.15),Grashofnumbers(Gr=0.1?5000)andReynoldsnumbers(Re=0.31?1000)inlaminarflowregime.Specialattentionisgivenontheanalysisofflowatthepuremixedconvectionregime.ItisfoundthatGrashof,ReynoldsandRichardsonnumbersalongwithsolidvolumefractionofnanofluidhavesignificanteffectonheattransfercharacteristicsinsidethecavity.ResultsarepresentedusingstreamlineandisothermcontoursalongwithrelatedvariationofaverageNusseltnumbersoftheheatedwallandaveragefluidtemperatureinsidethecavity.
简介:Inthispaper,perturbationmethodandFourier-cosine-expansionmethodareusedtosolvea3-DnonlinearproblemofasupercavitatingflowinaninclinedfieldofgravityatlargeFroudenumbers.Byexpandingthevelocitypotentialintoapowerseriesofasmallparameter,theoriginal3-Dnonlinearproblemisreducedtoanumberof2-Dones.Thesolutionsofthefirstthreeordersarederivedindetailandexpressedintermsofthecompleteellipticintegralsofthefirstandsecondkinds.Thentheboundaryintegralequationmethodisappliedtogetthenumericalsolutionsforeachorder.Computationalresultsareprovidedforsupercavitatingflowspastconesundervariousflowconditions.
简介:Inthepresenceofbottomwater,adropinthereservoirpressureduetofluidproductioncausestheaquiferwatertoexpandandtoflowintothereservoir.Therefore,hydrocarbonproductionfromawellislimitedbythecriticalflowrate.Themainpurposeofthisstudyistoinvestigatethebreakthroughtimeandthecriticalratebyusinganovel3-Dhorizontalwellmodel.Basedonthehypothesisthatthehorizontalwellislocatedinanypositionofacircularreservoirwithno-flowboundaryonthetopofthereservoirandconstantpressureboundaryatthebottom,thehorizontalwellhasbeenregardedasaninfiniteconductivitylinesinkandthena3-Dsteady-stateflowmodelofthehorizontalwellissetup.ApointsinkpressuresolutioncanbeobtainedwiththeFouriertransform.Theresultofthepressuredistributionoftheuniformfluxhorizontalwellcanbepresentedbymeansoftheprincipleofsuperposition.Accordingtothestablewatercrestingtheory,thisstudyconfirmsthestableheightofwatercrestingandthecriticalrate.Meanwhile,itcanre-confirmthebreakthroughtimeataspecificrate.Theoutputofacomparisonbetweenthis3-Dmodelandthereservoirnumericalsimulator(Eclipse)showsthemethodpresentedherecanbeappliedtoinvestigatethebehaviorofawatercrestingandtopredictthebreakthroughtimeatthebottomwaterdriverreservoir.
简介:Inthisarticle,theanaglyphvideomakerisemployedforgeneratingrealistic3-DflowsandthesoftwareFlowAnimatorisdevelopedusingthattechnology.BasedonMicrosoftWindowsPresentationFoundation(WPF),thereal3-Dsceneissetupandmarkerparticlesaredistributedinitrandomlyinordertocreateamorenaturalflowscenario.ThetrajectoryoftheparticlemotioniscalculatedwithLagrangiandescriptionin3-Dspace.Duringthesimulation,theviewportcanbechangedinordertofocusondifferentpartsofthemodelbypanning,zooming,rotatingandinclinationvariationetc.Markerparticlesmayappearindifferentshapes:spheres,tracking-balls,cylindersandribbonsinordertofitdifferentflows.Itisthefirsttimethatthevideoanaglyphtechnologyisemployedinthe3-Dhydrodynamicsimulation,whichremovestheobstaclesfor3-Dscenestoberenderedonaflat-paneldisplay.
简介:Ageneralizedbendflowmodel,treatinga90°singlebendand60°continuousbends,wasdesignedtoquantitativelydescribe3-Dturbulencemechanismofcirculatingnot-fully-developedflowinopenchannelswithbends.The3-Dfluctuatingvelocitiesofturbulentflowweremeasuredandanalyzedwitha3-Dacoustic-Dopplervelocimeter.Formulafor3-Dturbulentintensitywasderivedusingthedimensionanalysisapproach.Expressionsofverticalturbulent-intensitydistributionswereobtainedwiththemultivariant-regressiontheory,whichagreewithexperimentdata.Distributionsofturbulentintensityandturbulentstresswerecharacterized,andtheirrelationshipswereconcluded.Inthebend-turbulent-flowcoreregion,longitudinalandlateralturbulent-intensitydistributionsarecoincidentwithlineardistribution,butinnear-wallregionarecoincidentwiththeGammadistribution.VerticalturbulentintensitydistributionsarecoincidentwiththeRayleighdistribution.Herein,itisconcludedthatthebendturbulenceisanisotropic.
简介:TheaddedresistanceofKVLCC2inshortandregularheadwaveshasbeenstudiedtheoreticallyandexperimentally.Modeltestsareperformedtodeterminehowwelltheasymptoticformula(Faltinsenetal.1980)predictsthetypicallevelofaddedresistanceinshortwaves.Becausetheasymptoticformulaneglectstheeffectsofshipmotions,itiscombinedwiththeoreticalmethodstocalculatetheaddedresistanceinlongwavesusinganfunctiontopredicttheaddedresistanceintheintermediatewavelengthregionwherebothshipmotionsandwavereflectionareimportant.Auniquefeatureofthisexperimentisthattheshipmodelisdividedintothreesegmentstoexploretheaddedresistancedistributionwithrespecttohullsegment.Thispaperdiscussesthesensitivityofexperimentalresultstothequalityoftheincidentregularheadwaves.Moreover,anovelprocedureforanalyzingaddedresistanceisdescribed.Finally,theexperimentallydeterminedaddedresistanceofKVLCC2iscomparedwiththeoreticalresults.Itisshownthattheaddedresistancefromthecombinedtheoreticalmethodsagreeswellwithexperimentalresultsinboththeintermediateandshortwaveregions.Theuseofhullsegmentsshowsthataddedresistanceisconcentratedprimarilyatthebow.
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简介:A3-Dtimedomainmethodisdevelopedtoinvestigatethegapinfluenceonthewaveforcesfor3-Dmultiplefloatingstructures.Specialhydrodynamicresonanceduetosmallgapsbetweenmultiplefloatingstructuresonwaveforcesisexamined.Strongandcomplicatehydrodynamicinteractionsbetweenthefloatingbodiesareobservedandthenumericalcomputationshaveprovedtheexistenceofthesharppeakforceresponseoneachfloatingbodyatsomespecialresonantwavenumbers.Bycomparisonwiththeresultsfromthefrequencydomaintechnique,theresultsobtainedfromthetimedomainmethodrevealthesimilarresonantphenomenaandhydrodynamicinteraction.TheresonantwavenumbersarealsoprovedaroundkL=nπ(n=1,2,…,∞)withacorrespondingfrequencyshift.Thestronghydrodynamicinteractionfeatureispracticallysignificantforthedesignofmodulestructuresandthelinks(connection)inwholethefloatingbodysystem.