Numerical Study of External Flow over Ducts with Various Cross-Sections

Abstract:

In this article a comprehensive numerical study is performed to compare the effect of fluid flow across a duct with various cross sectional shapes and with different velocities of the flow. Circular, elliptical and rectangular cross sections have been chosen for the ducts and air flows across them with four values of low Reynolds numbers in the range of Re = 1 to Re = 1000. Continuity and momentum equations with proper boundary conditions are solved in two dimensions. Streamlines, pressure distribution and Velocity profiles are obtained and creation of vortices, boundary layers, separation region, wake region, reattachment point and stagnation points are studied in detail and the results are compared for various cases. The value of the Reynolds number which the flow transits from steady to unsteady has been compared for the different cross sectional shapes.

• Periodical: Defect and Diffusion Forum (Volume 366)
• Pages: 10-16
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.366.10
• Online since: April 2016
• Authors: Erfan Maleki, Hani Sadrhosseini
• Keywords: Cylindrical Cross Section, Elliptical Cross Section, External Flow, Laminar Flow, Square Cross Section

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