剪切变稀流体中的单气泡生成行为

为了探究剪切变稀流体的流变性对气泡生成的影响,采用高速摄像仪对单气泡在剪切变稀流体[羧甲基纤维素钠(CMC)水溶液]及牛顿流体(甘油水溶液)中的气泡生成过程进行研究,考察了剪切变稀流体的流变性对气泡在生成过程中的体积及形状的影响。结果表明:气泡生成体积及生成时间随流体黏度的增大而增大,在气泡颈形成之前的阶段,气泡体积增长速度随流体黏度的增大而减小,在气泡颈形成之后,气泡体积增长速度则随流体黏度的增大而增大,不同流体中气泡的长径比随着生成过程的进行均呈增大趋势,但在生成初期,长径比的增长速度随剪切变稀性的增大而减小,在生成后期,气泡长径比的增长速度则随剪切变稀性的增大而增大。     

Mixing of miscible shear-thinning fluids in a lid-driven cavity

The concentration and velocity fields of two refractive index matched miscible shear-thinning fluids in a lid-driven cavity were investigated by using planar laser-induced fluorescence and particle image velocimetry, as well by computational fluid dynamics. Quantitative analyses show that the results obtained by flow simulations with the species transport model are in good agreement with the experimental results.The effects of different parameters were studied by using the intensity of segregati...     

Transient response of slot coating flows of shear-thinning fluids to periodic disturbances

Slot coating is a popular coating method, in which the film thickness is precisely controlled by adjusting the flow rate and production speed. When the coating flow undergoes small-scale disturbances generated by rotating elements such as motors, pumps, or uneven rolls, the downstream meniscus fluctuates, which causes film thickness variation in the flow direction. Although most coating liquids including polymeric and particulate solutions exhibit a shear-thinning rheological property, their effect on transient coating flow behaviors is not deeply understood. Here, the effect of shear-thinning property on film thickness variation under different disturbances is investigated using a computer-aided analysis of transient slot coating flow. In this study, the Carreau model is used to describe the shear-thinning property, and four different disturbances are considered.     

Numerical simulation of flow and mixing behavior of impinging streams of shear-thinning fluids

Due to their high efficiency, impinging streams, which involve the use of two inlet streams that enter the system through two closely spaced inlets along the same axis in opposite directions, have recently found many applications in the chemical and food industry as alternatives to conventional mixing operations. However, there is no prior work that focuses on the flow and mixing behavior of non-Newtonian impinging streams. Numerical simulation was therefore performed to investigate the flow and mixing behavior of steady-state, two-dimensional laminar confined impinging streams of shear-thinning fluids. The coupled heat, mass and momentum balance equations were solved with the finite element method using commercial software FEMLAB™ 3.0. The effects of various parameters, i.e., inlet jet Reynolds number based on the inlet slot width (Re_j) in the range of 10-200 and the flow behavior index of the fluids in the range of 0.6161-1, on the flow and mixing behavior of impinging streams were then investigated. Temperature of the mixing fluid was used as a passive tracer to monitor mixing in this study. The results were also compared and discussed with those of Newtonian impinging streams.     

An analytical model for the prediction of power consumption for shear-thinning fluids with helical ribbon and helical screw ribbon impellers

An approximate analytical model has been developed to predict power consumption for the mixing of shear-thinning fluids with helical ribbon and helical screw ribbon impellers in the laminar flow regime. Extensive data on power input measurements embracing a wide range of flow behaviour index, with strong (n<0.4) and weak (0.4<n<1) shear-thinning fluid characteristics, available in the literature have been used to demonstrate the applicability of the present model for a wide range of helical ribbon mixer configurations. The model is able to explain the differences in the data reported in the existing literature and to successfully predict the complex dependence of power consumption on the fluid properties and the system geometry. Finally, the proposed correlation only requires a knowledge of the flow behaviour index of the fluid and of the geometrical parameters of the mixing systems (wall clearance, number of ribbons, pitch and width of the ribbons) and one characteristic parameter K_p of the mixing system which can be obtained from a single measurement of power for Newtonian liquids in the laminar regime.     

Laminar flow of power-law fluids in the entrance region of a pipe

The study is concerned with developing laminar flow of a power-law fluid in a circular tube. The analysis extends the filled-region concept, used previously to study Newtonian fluid flow, to the more general class of power-law fluids. Flow is analyzed in both the inlet and filled regions using an integral boundary layer method. Results obtained provide the lengths of the entrance, inlet and filled regions as a function of the generalized Reynolds number and the power-law fluid index. In addition, the variations of the local friction factor, the pressure drop and the centerline velocity along the axial coordinate are also provided. The available models are compared with the present one on the basis of experimental data. The present results are found to reach asymptotically the fully developed values, and also to be in good agreement with all available experimental data.     

The effects of fluids in the aircraft environment on a polyetherimide

Fluid absorption studies have been made for a polyetherimide thermoplastic film and a unidirectional composite of the thermoplastic with graphite fibers immersed in water, JP4 jet fuel, ethylene glycol, and hydraulic fluid. The changes in the weight, thickness, and tensile properties were measured for the film. The changes in the flexural properties of the composite were measured for specimens whose fiber orientation was transverse to their length. Only the hydraulic fluid, which caused an erosion or dissolving of the resin at the specimen surface, affected the film's properties. Both the water and the hydraulic fluid affected the flexural properties of the composite, due to capillary absorption along the fiber-resin interface.     

进气位置对陶瓷过滤器气流分布和粉尘层结构影响的试验研究

就进气位置对陶瓷过滤器气流分布和粉尘层结构的影响进行了试验研究。结果表明:中部进气时气流沿过滤元件轴向的分布比上部进气和下部进气要均匀。在相同的Δpc/Δm下,中部进气时的粉尘层渗透率比上部进气和下部进气的大,且沿过滤元件轴向粉尘层渗透率相差较小。     

Turbulent flow of shear-thinning liquids in stirred tanks—The effects of Reynolds number and flow index

LDA measurements are reported on the turbulent velocity fields in vessels agitated by a Rushton turbine and containing Newtonian as well as non-Newtonian, shear-thinning fluids. Ten different liquids were investigated, with flow indices varying from 1.00 down to 0.56. Experiments were performed in three vessel sizes, viz. 28.6, 44.1, and 62.7 cm in diameter, at various impeller speeds. The main issue of the paper is the question whether or not, and if so to what extent, turbulent flow of shear-thinning fluids differs from that of Newtonian liquids, or – in other words – whether and when turbulent flow of shear-thinning liquids exhibits Reynolds number similarity.     

The influence of hydrodynamic and mass transfer entrance effects on the operation of a parallel plate electrolytic cell

Experimental measurements of mass transfer in an electrochemical flow cell of rectangular cross section with different hydrodynamic entrance and electrode lengths have been made. For fully developed flow, average Sherwood numbers under laminar conditions vary with Graetz number to a power 0·30. For turbulent flow, fully developed mass transfer conditions occur about twelve equivalent diameters along the electrode and are best represented by the Chilton-Colburn analogy which predicts Sherwood numbers varying with Reynolds number to a power of 0·8 and Schmidt number to a one-third power. For shorter electrodes Sherwood numbers can be adequately correlated by an expression with Reynolds number to a two-thirds power and dimensionless electrode length to a power of −0·2. For hydrodynamic entrance lengths of not less than eight equivalent diameters, data in the laminar region can be expressed by an emperical boundary layer type of equation which includes terms for the hydrodynamic entrance length and electrode length. In the turbulent regime substantially developed flow occurs after eight entrance lengths and correlations with fully developed flow equations are satisfactory     

A method of computation of the pressure effect on melt viscosity

Simha's equation of state provides the relation between reduced pressure, temperature, and volume (P?, T?, and ?, respectively) and the occupied site fraction, y = y (P?, T?). The latter theoretical parameter combines the P and T effects on the occupied and unoccupied (“free volume”) part of the model liquid. It can be computed for each liquid once the thermodynamic reducing parameters are known. Empirical correlation between published zero shear viscosity data, η = η (P, T), and y indicates that for n-paraffins and molten polymers η is a single parameter function: η = η (y). The mathematical form of this dependence was explicitly given for n-paraffins. However, for polymers the correlation depends on molecular weight, molecular weight distribution, branching, composition, etc. In Practical terms, η = η (y) should be determined for each polymer by measuring the temperature dependence of η in as wide a range of T as possible. Then pressure effect on η can be determined from η = η(y) plot, knowing the y = y(P?, T?) relation.     

The effects of temperatures and volumetric expansion on the diffusion of fluids through solid polymers

This study examines moisture sorption behaviors of two glassy polymers, epoxy and vinylester, immersed in different fluids at two temperatures below the glass transition temperatures of the polymers. The main purpose of this study is to understand the effect of volume‐dependent temperatures and deformations on the diffusion process of solid polymers. Diffusivity coefficients are first determined by assuming the diffusion to follow the classical Fickian diffusion. In some cases, moisture sorption led to quite significant changes of volume, and the diffusion process cannot be well described by the Fickian diffusion. In such situation, the coupled deformation–diffusion model for linear elastic isotropic materials presented by Gurtin 1 is adopted, as a first approximation. This coupled deformation‐diffusion model reduces to a Fickian diffusion model when the coupling parameters are absent and the volume changes in the solid polymers during diffusion are negligible. A finite difference method is used in order to solve for the coupled deformation‐diffusion model. The model is used to predict the one‐dimensional moisture diffusion in thin plates and the multiaxial three‐dimensional moisture diffusion in dogbone specimens. The multiaxial diffusion in the dogbone specimens is used to validate the calibrated material parameters from the standard thin plate diffusion characterization. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2017 , 134, 45151.     

Mixing effects on particle formation in supercritical fluids

The process termed solution enhanced dispersion by supercritical fluids (SEDS™) is investigated. In the process particles are created in the rapid antisolvent process using a twin-fluid nozzle to co-introduce the SCF antisolvent and solution. Results of experimental and numerical studies are presented for two regions of pressure: above the mixture critical pressure where a single-phase exists for all solvent–antisolvent compositions, and below the mixture critical pressure where the two-phase region is observed. In experimental studies paracetamol (in the single-phase system) and nicotinic acid (in the two-phase system) were precipitated from ethanol solution using supercritical CO₂ as an antisolvent. To interpret the phenomena affecting creation of the supersaturation and to predict suprsaturation distribution, balances of momentum (flow), species (mixing), energy (heating and cooling) and population (droplet and crystal size distributions) are applied. The Favre averaged k–? model of the CFD code FLUENT is applied together with specific models for precipitation subprocesses and Peng–Robinson equation of state. This includes application of the PDF closure procedure for precipitation and the drop breakage kernel that is based on multifractal theory of turbulence for modelling drop dispersion. Thermodynamic effects of mixing and decompression are included as well. Predicted values not always agree with experimental data but anyhow simulations predict all trends observed in experiments.     

随机粗糙表面上剪切变稀流体液滴的沉积过程模拟

采用计算流体力学相场方法模拟了单个剪切变稀非牛顿流体液滴在随机粗糙表面的沉积过程,并分析揭示了随机粗糙表面形貌对液滴运动状态及平衡状态的影响。结果表明,在指定的相同操作条件下,即使在光滑表面,剪切变稀流体液滴比牛顿流体液滴铺展更大且回缩至平衡所需时间更少,不存在二次铺展;剪切变稀流体液滴最大铺展直径随均方根粗糙度Rr与Wenzel粗糙度Wr的增加而略有增加。Wr相同时,随着Rr增大,液滴最终铺展系数减小,高度系数增大,平衡接触面积及接触角有所减小。在Rr相同情况下,随着Wr增大,液滴达到平衡所需时间缩短,平衡接触面积线性增大。     

CC板通道入口效应对传热特性和阻力特性的影响

选取低Reynolds数k-ε湍流模型,采用数值模拟的方法计算了不同Reynolds数下入口效应和CC板通道单元体传热特性、阻力特性的关系。数值模拟的结果表明：入口效应的存在使得CC板通道前3个单元体的湍流强度显著变大,在第4个单元体之后入口效应对传热特性的影响可以忽略;随着Reynolds数的增加,由于CC板通道入口处湍流强度增加的程度逐渐变小,入口效应对传热效果的强化能力下降;随着Reynolds数的增加,入口段和充分发展段的摩擦阻力系数均有所下降;此外,由于入口效应的存在,CC板通道入口段的摩擦阻力系数比充分发展段高20%左右。     

A macroscopic model for shear-thinning flow in packed beds based on network modeling

The flow of non-Newtonian fluids in packed beds and other porous media is important in several applications such as polymer processing, filtration, and enhanced oil recovery. Expressions for flowrate versus pressure gradient are desirable for a-priori prediction and for substitution into continuum models. In this work, physically representative network models are used to model the flow of shear-thinning fluids, including power-law and Ellis fluids. The networks are used to investigate the effects of fluid rheology and bed morphology on flow.A simple macroscopic model is developed for the flow of power-law and Ellis fluids in packed beds using results from the network model. The model has the same general functionality as those developed using the popular bundle-of-tubes approach. The constant β, which appears in these models, is often directly derived from the tortuosity and a simple representation of the porous media. It is shown here that this can lead to incorrect and ambiguous values of the constant. Furthermore, the constant is a weak function of the shear-thinning index, indicating that no single bundle-of-tubes could ever properly model flow for a wide variety of shear-thinning fluids.The macroscopic model is compared to experimental data for shear-thinning fluids available in the literature. The model fits the data well when β is treated as an experimental parameter. The best-fit values of β vary, which is expected because even the constant C in the Blake-Kozeny equation varies depending on the source consulted. Additionally, physical effects, such as adsorption and filtration, as well as rheological effects such as viscoelasticity may affect the value of β. We believe that in the absence of these effects, β equals approximately 1.46 for packed beds of uniform spheres at relatively moderate values of the shear-thinning index (>0.3).     

Inertia and gravitational effects in extrusion dies for non-Newtonian fluids

An analysis is presented which allows the sheet or film die designer to estimate when inertial and gravitational effects are important. General theoretical equations are developed for end fed dies with arbitrary variation of the cavity cross sectional shape, cavity taper, slot length, and gap over the width. The method assumes viscous flow and a two dimensional approximation for the cavity flow. For fluid flow properties, it is assumed only that the apparent viscosity is a single valued function of the shear rate. In the important special case of constant die geometry and power law fluids, three dimensionless numbers plus the power law index are the parameters controlling the uniformity of flow from the die. Results are presented that illustrate when die orientations with respect to gravity and when fluid inertia are important. When they are not, simple expressions for die inlet pressure and uniformity index are given.