Jiegang Mou¹, Fengye Zhang^{1, *}, Haoshuai Wang¹, Denghao Wu¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.15, No.3, pp. 187-205, 2019, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2019.04657

Abstract The self-priming process of a pump involves a complex gas-liquid two-phase flow. Studying the distribution of gas and water and the evolution of their flow in the pump is of great importance to optimize this process and shorten the pump self-priming time. In the present study, a standard k-ε turbulence model and a multiphase flow model have been used to simulate the self-priming pump process considering four different reflux hole areas. A comparison of the distribution of air and water distribution on the axial surface and inside the volume have been carried out for the different considered cases. The pattern… More >

Reham Reda^{1, *}

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.15, No.3, pp. 171-185, 2019, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2019.03923

Abstract Constrained groove pressing (CGP) is a severe plastic deformation (SPD) technique used as a strengthening method for sheet metal. In the current work, an optimal/cost-saving design for CGP dies was attained using the stress analysis tool in SolidWorks Simulation Xpress wizard. This study examined low-cost and widely industrially applied aluminium materials, i.e., pure 1050 Al and 5052 Al alloy. Each material was subjected to three passes of the CGP process using a 150 tons capacity press. For both materials, inter-pass annealing treatment was undertaken before the third pass. The effect of the number of CGP passes on the microstructure and… More >

Z. Neffah¹, H. Kahalerras^{1, *}, B. Fersadou¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.14, No.1, pp. 39-56, 2018, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2018.014.039

Abstract A numerical study of heat and mass transfer in a non-Newtonian fluid in a parallel-plate channel partly filled with an anisotropic porous medium and subjected to an exothermic chemical reaction on its walls has been conducted. The flow field in the porous region has been modeled by the modified Brinkman-Forchheimer extended Darcy model for power-law fluids and a finite volume method has been used to solve the governing equations. The influence played by a variation of the anisotropic ratio on thermal conductivity, power-law index, Darcy number, and chemical reaction characteristics has been examined. We show that the anisotropy of a… More >

A. Ja¹, A. Cheddadi¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.13, No.4, pp. 235-249, 2017, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2017.013.235

Abstract This paper reports on the natural convection within a very narrow horizontal annular cavity filled with a porous medium saturated by a binary fluid. The main objective of this study is the identification of the effect of Lewis number on the flow structure and on the heat and mass transfer rates, in a cavity of very small radius ratio R=1.05, in the case of equal buoyancy forces (N=1), for a Rayleigh number Ra=50. The dimensionless governing equations were solved by the centered Finite Difference method using the ADI scheme. Several multicellular flows appear during the variation of the Lewis number,… More >

Tawfiq Chekifi^{1, *}, Brahim Dennai², Rachid Khelfaoui²

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.13, No.3, pp. 173-187, 2017, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2017.013.173

Abstract Recently, modeling immiscible fluids such as oil and water have been a classical research topic. Droplet-based microfluidics presents a unique platform for mixing, reaction, separation, dispersion of drops and many other functions. In this paper, we suggest a numerical CFD study of microfluidic oscillator with two different lengths of feedback loop. In order to produce simultaneous droplets of gasoil on water, a typical geometry that includes double T-junction is connected to the fluidic oscillator. Droplets production is computed by volume-of-fluid method (VOF). Flow oscillations of droplets were triggered by the Coanda effect of jet flow. The aim of work is… More >

M. Krishna Prasad¹, G. Manpreet Kaur¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.13, No.2, pp. 107-125, 2017, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2017.013.107

Abstract The slow steady rotation of a micropolar fluid spheroid whose shape deviates slightly from that of a sphere in concentric spheroidal container filled with Newtonian viscous fluid is studied analytically. The boundary conditions used are the continuity of velocity and stress components, and spin vorticity relation. The torque and wall correction factor exerted on the micropolar fluid spheroid is obtained. The dependence of wall correction factor on the micropolarity parameter, spin parameter, viscosity ratio and deformation parameter is studied numerically and its variation is presented graphically. In the limiting cases, the torque acting on solid spheroid in spheroidal container and… More >

Bin Liu¹, Zhaodan Yang¹, Yahui Wang¹, Rachid Bennacer^1,2

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.13, No.1, pp. 37-47, 2017, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2017.013.037

Abstract The dynamic thermal history of storage product system is related to the insulation and also to the inertia. Use a new porous media doped with nanofluid PCM to improve the system efficiency. The analysis of the porous sponge thickness with 8 mm, 16 mm and 20 mm, the integrated nanofluids with 0.1%, 0.15% and 0.2%, the mass of the PCM and the initial temperature of the stored product with -1°C, 4°C, 12°C is achieved in order to underline the advantages of the new saturated porous media (sponges) with the phase change material (PCM) /Al₂O₃-H₂O nanofluid. The carrots are used as… More >

Sacia Kachi^1,*, Fatima-zohra Bensouici¹, Nawel Ferroudj¹, Saadoun Boudebous²

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.15, No.2, pp. 89-105, 2019, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2019.00263

Abstract The objective of the present study is to analyze the laminar mixed convection in a square cavity with moving cooled vertical sidewalls. A constant flux heat source with relative length l is placed in the center of the lower wall while all the other horizontal sides of the cavity are considered adiabatic. The numerical method is based on a finite difference technique where the spatial partial derivatives appearing in the governing equations are discretized using a high order scheme, and time advance is dealt with by a fourth order Runge Kutta method. The Richardson number (Ri), which represents the relative… More >

Toufik Benmalek¹, Ferhat Souidi¹, Mourad Moderres^2,*, Bilal Yassad¹, Said Abboudi³

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.15, No.2, pp. 107-123, 2019, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2019.04496

Abstract This study aims to analyze mixed convection in a square cavity with two moving vertical walls by finite volume method. The cavity filled with Non-Newtonian fluid of Bingham model is heated from below and cooled by the other walls. This study has been conducted for certain parameters of Reynolds number (Re=1-100), Richardson number (Ri=1-20), Prandtl number (Pr=1-500), and Bingham number has been studied from 0 to 10. The results indicate that the increase in yield stress drops the heat transfer and the flow become flatter, while increasing Reynolds number augments it. The convective transport is dominant when increasing Richardson number… More >

Laila Khatra^1,*, Hamid El Qarnia¹, Mohammed El Ganaoui²

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.15, No.2, pp. 125-137, 2019, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2019.04713

Abstract The aim of the proposed work is to study the solidification process within a rectangular enclosure provided with three internal rectangular fins attached to the left vertical wall of the cavity. This latest is filled with a phase change material (PCM), initially liquid, at a temperature above its melting temperature. The solidification process was initiated by cooling the left wall and fins to a temperature lower than the melting temperature. In order to study and examine the thermal behavior and thermal performance of the proposed system, a mathematical model, based on the conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy was… More >