The hydrodynamic behavior of particles in circulating fluidized beds has been studied by means of a Boltzmann-like kinetic model. Two main regimes of flow: a homogeneous and a heterogeneous regime have been delimited. In the homogeneous regime, for concentrations below a critical value, the flow consists of upward moving solids. Above the critical concentration, clusters appear. Particles velocity distribution at different values of the solid concentration and the ratio of particles being in clusters to those being in homogeneous flow are calculated for different solid mass fluxes, particle size distributions and superficial gas velocities. Slip factors and the effect of gas radial velocity profile have been predicted. Qualitative agreement with experimental data is obtained. 相似文献
1. Introduction The thermal regime or thermal background is an important tool for revealing the geodynamic processes of the continental lithosphere and establishing the onset of the generation of hydrocarbons from source rocks in sedimentary basins (Chapm… 相似文献
This paper discusses predictions of a numerical model presented in the companion paper (Nanthikesan and Shyam Sunder, 1995) to analyze tensile cracks in polycrystalline ice undergoing transient creep. The numerical model is based on the internal state variable constitutive theory of transient creep in ice developed by Shyam Sunder and Wu (1989a,b, 1990). The finite element model uses the boundary layer approach of Rice (1968), in conjunction with a mid-point crack-tip element and reduced integration, to simulate the asymptotic stress and deformation fields in the vicinity of the crack tip, including incompressible creep deformations.
The problem of a stationary, traction-free, tensile (mode I) crack is analyzed to predict the size, shape and time evolution of the creep-dominated fracture process zone surrounding the crack-tip. The numerical simulations quantify the effects of transient creep, material strain hardening, fabric anisotropy, loading rate, temperature, and finite fracture test-specimen boundary on the development of the creep zone. A range of stress-intensity rates from 1 to 100 kPa
s−1 and temperatures from −5° to −25°C is considered in the simulations.
The results from a comprehensive numerical simulation study show that: (i) transient creep increases the creep zone size by more than an order of magnitude over that for a power-law creeping material, i.e., about 40 times for the isotropic, equiaxed granular ice tested by Jacka (1984); (ii) material strain hardening significantly affects the creep zone size, i.e., the creep zone for the transversely-isotropic columnar-grained ice tested by Sinha (1978), with the crack loaded in the plane of isotropy, is about 4 times smaller than that for the granular isotropic ice; (iii) fabric anisotropy increases the size of the creep zone by a factor of at least two for cracks in the transversely-isotropic, columnar-grained ice loaded in the plane of isotropy; (iv) the Riedel and Rice (1980) equation, which was derived for an isotropic power-law creeping material subjected to a suddenly applied constant stress-intensity, overestimates the creep zone size by a factor of 4.2 for a constant stress-intensity rate loading; and (v) as the crack size increases, linear elastic fracture mechanics becomes increasingly applicable at lower loading rates and higher temperatures. 相似文献
Laminar natural convection induced by free surface temperature gradient has been investigated numerically. Buoyancy effect
and surface tension effect were made to oppose against each other. For fluid of unit Prandtl number and cavity of unit aspect
ratio, the flow field was examined to determine the relative importance of surface tension force and buoyancy force. The flow
patterns of each regime are: free surface-concentrated streamlines for surface tension flows, opposite direction circulation
for buoyancy driven flows, and surface tension cell above with buoyancy driven cell below for mixed flows. The borderlines
of each flow regime were obtained by interpolation and the flow regime map was obtained. 相似文献
The presence of oil in an evaporator degrades performance by reducing evaporator heat pick-up and by increasing the evaporator pressure drops. It can be demonstrated that there is an optimum refrigerant mass flow rate for a given refrigerant-oil combination and oil concentration. Also, oil viscosity has an effect on the evaporator performance at low oil concentrations. Finally, it is suggested that low viscosity oil be used at low oil concentrations and high viscosity oil at high oil concentrations. 相似文献