Fluid Flow Around a Wavy Tape in a Tube CFD Simulation
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The present study investigates the fluid flow passing through a circular cross-section tube with a wavy tape inside it.
Fluid Flow Around a Wavy Tape in a Tube CFD Simulation
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The present study investigates the fluid flow passing through a circular cross-section tube with a wavy tape inside it.
Fluid Flow Around a Wavy Tape in a Tube, ANSYS Fluent CFD Simulation Training
The present study investigates the fluid flow passing through a circular cross-section tube, using a wavy tape as a barrier by ANSYS Fluent software. This waveform acts as a thermal insulator. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the heat transfer in a tube.
Assumptions for fluid flow around wavy tape CFD simulation
To simulate the present problem, several assumptions are considered:
The simulation is Steady-State and the solver is Pressure-Based. Also, the gravity effect is ignored
Geometry & Mesh
The present 3-D model was designed by Design Modeler software. The geometry of the model is a circular cross-section tube having barriers in the form of a wavy bar. Due to the symmetry of the model, the desired geometry is designed as a semi-cylinder. The unstructured mesh was done using ANSYS Meshing software. The element number is equal to 653307.
CFD Simulation Procedure
Here is a summary of the steps to define and solve the problem in the table:
| Models | ||||
| Laminar | Viscous model | |||
| on | energy | |||
| Boundary conditions for fluid flow around wavy tape CFD simulation | ||||
| velocity-inlet | Inlet | |||
| 0.0110334 m.s-1 | velocity magnitude | |||
| 293.15 K | temperature | |||
| pressure-outlet | Outlet | |||
| 0 Pa | gauge pressure | |||
| wall | Walls type | |||
| 0 W.m-2 | heat flux | wave wall | ||
| 360 K | temperature | outer wall | ||
| Solution Methods | ||||
| Simple | Pressure-velocity coupling | |||
| second order upwind | pressure | Spatial discretization | ||
| second order upwind | momentum | |||
| second order upwind | energy | |||
| Initialization for fluid flow around wavy tape simulation | ||||
| Standard | Initialization method | |||
| -0.0110334 m.s-1 | z-velocity | |||
| 293.15 K | temperature | |||
CFD Results
After the solution process, the 3D and 2D contours of pressure, temperature, velocity, 2D and 3D flow lines and 2D and 3D velocity vectors are obtained.