KnE Engineering

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3D Unsteady RANS Computation of the Mixing on a T-junction

Published date: Jun 02 2020

Journal Title: KnE Engineering

Issue title: International Congress on Engineering — Engineering for Evolution

Pages: 539–546

DOI: 10.18502/keg.v5i6.7076

Authors:

Sílvio Cândido - si_mi_roca@hotmail.com

José Páscoa

Abstract:

Turbulent mixing is a very common phenomenon in industrial processes. It is well know that the turbulence model has a massive impact on the accuracy of a turbulent flow, principally when it is used in processes of turbulent mixing. For this reason, this paper aims to investigate the impact of two specific turbulence models on calculating a mixture of gas-gas, using a 3D T- junction geometry. The differences between the calculation with two RANS based model, the kw-SST and SAS are investigated here. A mixture of Air and N2  is performed. The sensibility of the refinement of the mesh of calculation is assessed to calculate the discretization error. A comparison of results obtained with the distinct models of turbulence is made with available experimental data. In this comparison it is showed that the SAS model, due to its capability of capturing some vortexes that SST couldn’t, offers a better accuracy, with an error maximum bellow the 7%, in comparison to the experimental data.

Keywords: T-juntion, Turbulent mixing, RANS, CFD

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