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COBEM 2017
24th ABCM International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
NON-ISOTHERMAL FLUID FLOW IN A T-JUNCTION
Submission Author:
Alysson Dantas Ferreira , PB
Co-Authors:
Alysson Dantas Ferreira, Severino Rodrigues de Farias Neto
Presenter: Alysson Dantas Ferreira
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2017.COB17-1156
Abstract
Due to the high industrial competitiveness, companies are constantly looking for technologies that make the price of their products more accessible to the market, investing in research in the areas of optimization or development of new low-cost and low-maintenance equipment. The mixing process is an operation that is present in the most diverse industrial sectors. In this sense, the purpose of this work is to study, through computational fluid dynamics techniques, a simple geometry for a mixer device and to analyze non-isothermal fluid flow in a T mixer, comparing the results with more than one software. The Salome computational program was used to generate the mesh of a T junction, Ansys CFX and OpenFOAM to obtain the results of the numerical simulations. With the results of the simulation it was possible to evaluate the quality of the mathematical models used, comparing them with experimental data obtained by Naik-Nimbalkar et al. (2010) and performing a statistical treatment. It was also possible to evaluate the results of the different software used, thus, informs which one presented better response to the data of the experiment. The data of the simulations were shown to be coherent and were statistically validated, further enhancing confidence in the results. The proposed mathematical model represented with fidelity the phenomenon of mixing of a junction T.
Keywords
Statistics treatment, Hydrodynamic performance., CFD, T-junction
