Experimental investigation on the self-acceleration of 10%H2/90%CO/air turbulent expanding premixed flame

The self-acceleration characteristics of a syngas/air mixture turbulent premixed flame were experimentally evaluated using a 10% H₂/90% CO/air mixture turbulent premixed flame by varying the turbulence intensity and equivalence ratio at atmospheric pressure and temperature. The propagation characteristics of the turbulent premixed flame including the variation in the flame propagation speed and turbulent burning velocity of the syngas/air mixture turbulent premixed flame were evaluated. In addition, the effect of the self-acceleration characteristics of the turbulent premixed flame was also evaluated. The results show that turbulence gradually changes the radius of the premixed flame from linear growth to nonlinear growth. With the increase of turbulence intensity, the formation of a cellular structure of the flame front accelerated, increasing the flame propagation speed and burning speed. In the transition stage, the acceleration exponent and fractal excess of the turbulent premixed flame decreased with increasing equivalence ratio and increased with increasing turbulence intensity at an equivalence ratio of 0.6. The acceleration exponent was always greater than 1.5.     

Origin of significantly enhanced dielectric response and nonlinear electrical behavior in Ni2+-doped CaCu3Ti4O12: Influence of DC bias on electrical properties of grain boundary and associated giant dielectric properties

CaCu_3-xNi_xTi₄O₁₂ (x?=?0, 0.05, and 0.10) powders were synthesized using a solid state reaction method. Phase structure and microstructure analyses revealed that all sintered CaCu_3-xNi_xTi₄O₁₂ ceramics were of a pure phase. The CaCu₃Ti₄O₁₂ ceramics had a dense microstructure and grain sizes were enlarged by doping with Ni²⁺. Interestingly, the dielectric permittivity was significantly enhanced, whereas the loss tangent was greatly suppressed to ～0.046–0.034 at 1?kHz. All sintered ceramics exhibited non-Ohmic characteristics. Clarification of the influences of DC bias showed that the dielectric permittivity and loss tangent values were increased by DC bias. The resistance of grain boundaries and the associated conduction activation energy of CaCu_3-xNi_xTi₄O₁₂ ceramics were reduced as the DC bias voltage increased. Therefore, the observed non-Ohmic behavior and significantly enhanced dielectric properties should be closely related to variation in the Schottky barriers at the grain boundaries.     

Experimental validation with field circuit by changing start voltage of salient pole synchronous motor

This paper reports on the experimental validation characteristics of a salient pole synchronous motor with the starting field circuit in contact. The starting characteristics were experimentally evaluated at voltages of 100%, 75%, and 50% using a 1.5 kVA salient pole synchronous motor. The signal for pulling into step was applied to the field circuit by using the control module for all test conditions. The results confirmed the proper pulling into step at 100% of voltage, and the results of the tests at 50% and 75% of voltage revealed that the pulling into step under these conditions becomes stable at the suitable slip condition.     

Preserving global features of fluid animation from a single image using video examples

We synthesize animations from a single image by transferring fluid motion of a video example globally.Given a target image of a fluid scene,an alpha matte is required to extract the fluid region.Our me...     

Uncertainty estimation of a liquid flow standard system with small flow rates

A liquid flow standard system is used to calibrate liquid volume of fuel–oil flow meters at small flow rates between 50 L/h and 700 L/h. However, the system has not been used to calibrate volume flow rate because the system is only operated with the standing-start-and-finish mode. In this study, the liquid flow standard system was rebuilt to provide a calibration service of volume flow rate by attaching two flow diverters, which can operate the system with the flying-start-and-finish mode. To evaluate its performance for volume flow metering, several techniques were introduced. First, diverter timing errors were estimated by linear regression. Second, covariance between buoyancy correction factor and water density was obtained to consider interdependency between the two measurands. Third, calibration and measurement capability (CMC) was evaluated by setting a fixed value of collected weight or elapsed time for flow diversion. Finally, several CMCs were compared to find the best measurement condition. As a result of the above approach, the CMC of the liquid flow standard system was found to be (0.10–0.52)% (k = 2) for (50–700) L/h with a minimum collected weight at 10 kg.     

Viscoelastic responses of flow driven by a permeable disk investigated by ultrasound velocity profiling

Ultrasound velocity profiling was applied to viscoelastic flow induced around a moving permeable disk. There were two objectives to this measurement. The first was to find technical advantages and restrictions when applying ultrasonic Doppler velocimetry to a viscoelastic liquid. This issue has not been clarified even though ultrasonic pulses may interact with an elastic medium in the monitoring of the Doppler shift frequency. The second objective was to determine the fluid physics of a viscoelastic liquid around a permeable object, which will help in designing mixing process for materials subject to strong rheological resistance. In this paper, we report a representative response of a viscoelastic liquid in terms of its spatiotemporal velocity distribution. The response highlighted is cyclic lateral waves that form behind the disk, which were hardly detectable by particle image velocimetry. We discuss multiple reasons for this phenomenon considering not only fluid properties but also the measurement principle of ultrasound velocity profiling as applied to viscoelastic liquid.     

Multiphase flow measurements using coupled slotted orifice plate and swirl flow meter

Multiphase flow metering is a major focus for oil and gas industries. The performance of a modified version of a close coupled slotted orifice plate and swirl flow meter for multiphase flow was evaluated to provide further development of a new type of multiphase flow meter. The slotted orifice provides well homogenized flow for several pipe diameters downstream of the plate. This characteristic provides a homogeneous mixture at the inlet of the swirl meter for a wide range of gas volume fractions (GVF) and flow rates. In order to evaluate the performance of the designed flow-meter, its response was investigated for varying pressures and water flow rates. The proper correlations were established to provide high accurate two-phase flow measurements. The new proposed approach provides the GVF measurement with less than ±0.63% uncertainty for GVF range from 60% to 95%.     

测量水平油水层状流相含率的平行线电容传感器

提出了一种用于水平油水层状流相含率测量的平行线电容传感器。采用有限元分析方法(FEM)考察了传感器灵敏场分布,分析了传感器几何参数对灵敏场影响;构建了传感器层状流下的有限元模型,计算得到了水平油水层状流条件下的传感器静态响应特性;在设计传感器测量系统基础上进行了传感器水平油水层状流相含率测量,结果表明,平行线电容传感器输出响应与有限元模型计算结果较好吻合,且对相含率具有较高的测量线性度及灵敏度。     

A reference conductivity fitting method for ERT system to achieve void fraction of gas/liquid flow

The void fraction is one of the key parameters in the measurement of gas/liquid two-phase flow. It can be derived from the absolute conductivity distribution based on Maxwell׳s theory. With Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) technology, the absolute conductivity distribution is obtained by multiplying the relative conductivity image with the reference conductivity which is conventionally the liquid conductivity of a gas/liquid flow. Unfortunately the liquid conductivity is not always available. Therefore, a conductivity fitting method is proposed in this paper, to find an optimal reference conductivity, which will be used in substituting the liquid conductivity to reconstruct the quasi-absolute conductivity image. The optimal reference conductivity fitting method is proposed and validated by simulation and experiments under certain flow regimes, e.g. slug flow, annular flow and bubbly flow. The simulation and experimental results show that, independent from prior-knowledge, the fitted quasi-homogenous conductivity is close to the average conductivity of the sensing field. It also leads to a much more accurate estimation of void fraction than the conventional method using liquid conductivity as the reference. With the proposed method, the ERT technique can play a more significant role in the measurement of multiphase flow (MPF).