CFD investigation of the flow and heat transfer characteristics in a tangential inlet cyclone
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2007
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Pergamon-Elsevier Science
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This work presents a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculation to investigate the flow field and the heat transfer characteristics in a tangential inlet cyclone which is mainly used for the separation of the dens phase of a two phase flow. Governing equations for the steady turbulent 3D flow were solved numerically under certain boundary conditions covering an inlet velocity range of 3 to 30 m/s. Finite volume based Fluent software was used and the RNG k - e{open} turbulence model was adopted for the modeling highly swirling turbulent flow. Good agreement was found between computed pressure drop and experimental data available in the literature. The structure of the vortices and variation of local heat transfer were studied under the effects of inlet velocity.
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CFD, Computational fluid dynamics, Boundary conditions, Inlet velocity, Cyclone separators, Computational fluid dynamics, Finite volume method, Heat transfer, Pressure drop, Steady flow, Swirling flow, Turbulence models, Turbulent flow, Two phase flow, Vortex flow, Turbulence models, Heat transfer, Swirl flow, Finite volume method, Steady flow, Cyclone separators, Turbulent flow, Pressure drop, Two phase flow, Vortex flow
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Karagöz, İ. ve Kaya, F. (2007). "CFD investigation of the flow and heat transfer characteristics in a tangential inlet cyclone". International Communicatıons In Heat And Mass Transfer, 34(9-10), 1119-1126.