CFD Modeling of a Thin Liquid Film Flow over Horizontal Spinning Disk

Abstract:

A thin liquid film flow over horizontal spinning disk under influence of centrifugal field is one of the implementation and method in process intensification. Hydrodynamic studies and development of mechanistic model is desired to describe this film flow behaviours. CFD software package, Fluent^® 6.3 was used to simulate a multiphase volume of fraction (VOF) model of this flow. Then, experiments were carried out in a spinning disk test rig with variable speed of spinning and results were compared with CFD simulation. The result obtained have showed that CFD model for thin liquid film thickness was in satisfactory agreement with the experimental results with R² = 0.841 to 0.857.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 625)
• Pages: 517-521
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.625.517
• Online since: September 2014
• Authors: Nurhazwani Yusoff Azudin, Mohd Fadhil Majnis, Ahmad Abdul Latif, Syamsul Rizal Abd Shukor*
• Keywords: CFD, Horizontal Spinning Disk, Multiphase, Thin Liquid Film

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