ISSN:
0271-2091
Keywords:
SIMPLE-like algorithm
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Average pressure correction
;
Paper filter
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Turbulent flow
;
Sampler
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Engineering
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Engineering General
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
The control volume, finite difference method and the k-∊ tubulence model are employed in a numerical simulation of the turbulent fluid flow both outside and inside a blunt cylindrical sampler which houses a paper filter in its chamber. The presence of a paper filter, which has a very large resistance, results in a large pressure drop across the filter and this causes difficulties in making the SIMPLE or the SIMPLEC scheme converge. In order to improve the rate of convergence of the SIMPLE-like algorithm when the resistance of the filter is very large, an average pressure correction formula is proposed. Based on global mass conservation, a line average pressure correction for the paper filter is derived using a modified Darcy law for a porous medium. A combination of this formula and the SIMPLE-like algorithm can rapidly build up the pressure drop across the filter and hence dramatically improve the rate of convergence of the iterative scheme. Comparisons of the convergence histories and the numerical results for the fluid flow when using SIMPLE and SIMPLEC with the average pressure correction method show that the average pressure correction method for dealing with the paper filter significantly accelerates the rate of convergence of the iterative scheme.
Additional Material:
12 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fld.1650191003
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