Tianyu Xu, Lixiang Zhang*
FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.16, No.3, pp. 525-536, 2020, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2020.09618
Abstract In this article, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) are used to explore
the dynamics of water transport inside the pitted thickening of a plant xylem vessel. A pitted thickening model combined with the Bernoulli equation is used to
analyze the influence of various factors (namely, the inner diameter, thickening
width, thickening height, thickening spacing, number of laps and adjacent pit
axial rotation). The pressure drop and the flow resistance coefficient are the variable parameters for our analysis. The results show that these two parameters are
proportional to the thickening height and thickening width, and inversely proportional to the inner diameter, thickening… More >
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