Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-04-30T15:14:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 WANESSA RAPHAELLA GOMES DOS SANTOS - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGEM 2014..pdf: 8618618 bytes, checksum: 60b0630085063a71f3865758462d46c4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-30T15:14:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 WANESSA RAPHAELLA GOMES DOS SANTOS - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGEM 2014..pdf: 8618618 bytes, checksum: 60b0630085063a71f3865758462d46c4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-26 / CNPq / O escoamento multifásico está presente nas etapas de exploração, produção, transporte, processamento e distribuição de fluidos, especialmente na indústria do petróleo e gás. O uso de dutos é a maneira convencional para o transporte de petróleo por ser eficiente e econômica. Os dutos estão sujeitos a danos devido à ação de agentes de natureza físico-química que eventualmente deterioram parte dos mesmos, causando corrosão, rompimento e interrupções do fluxo do fluido. Sistemas de monitoramento de vazamentos devem ser capazes de detectar e localizar um vazamento quase que instantaneamente, reduzindo os riscos de impactos ambientais e socioeconômicos, aumentando a segurança operacional. A partir desta temática, este trabalho tem como objetivo estudar teoricamente o escoamento multifásico transiente, não-isotérmico e tridimensional de óleo, água e gás em dutos verticais com e sem vazamento, com ênfase na influência da rugosidade da parede do duto e dimensões do orifício do vazamento. Resultados das distribuições de velocidade superficial, pressão, temperatura e fração volumétrica das fases presentes no escoamento são apresentados e analisados. Verificou-se que a rugosidade da parede do duto, fase gás e a temperatura de alimentação da mistura influenciam diretamente na queda de pressão média do escoamento. / The multiphase flow occur in the stages of exploration, production, transportation, processing and distribution of fluids, especially in the oil and gas industry. The use of pipelines is the conventional, efficient and economical way to transport oil. Pipelines are subject to damage because of the action of physico-chemical nature agents that can deteriorate the duct, causing corrosion, breakage and disruption of fluid flow. Leakage monitoring systems must be able to detect and locate a leak immediately, reducing the risks of environmental and socio-economic impacts, increasing operational safety. From this theme, this work aims to study theoretically the multiphase (oil, gas and water flow), non-isothermal, transient and three-dimensional in vertical pipes with and without leakage, with emphasis on the influence of roughness of the duct wall, and dimensions of the leakage orifice. Results of velocity, pressure, temperature and volume fraction distributions of the phases present in the flow are presented and analyzed. It was found that both the wall roughness of the duct, phase gas and the inlet temperature of the mixture affect directly on average pressure drop of the flow.

Este trabalho visa estudar o fluxo de um fluido em um meio poroso (fibroso) durante o processo de Moldagem por Transferência de Resina (RTM) utilizando e comparando dois softwares comerciais: o ANSYS CFX, software de simulação numérica CFD não-dedicado a RTM, e o PAM-RTM, software de simulação numérica dedicado a esta aplicação. Foram utilizados dados experimentais, empregando uma pré-forma de tecido (0/90) de fibra de vidro e que foi impregnada por um óleo vegetal em injeção radial de RTM. Diversos experimentos foram realizados variando-se a pressão de injeção e o teor volumétrico de fibras a fim de observar o efeito no comportamento do fluxo. Com estes dados, alimentou-se o ANSYS CFX e o PAM-RTM utilizando equações dos meios porosos conhecidas, e foram feitas análises numéricas de todos os casos experimentais. Resultados de permeabilidade, viscosidade do fluido, tempo de preenchimento do molde, campo de pressão, variação da fração volumétrica das fases presentes e vetor velocidade de fluxo são apresentados e analisados. Concluiu-se que há uma sólida relação entre o experimental e o simulado (erros inferiores a 10%), o software PAM-RTM possui menor erro do que o ANSYS CFX quando comparados aos resultados experimentais, mas este último apresenta maior versatilidade de análises. / This work aims to study the flow of fluid through a porous (fibrous) media that occurs during Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) of composite materials and to compare it with the numerical results obtained with two commercial simulation software, ANSYS CFX, a general-use CFD package, and PAM-RTM, which is dedicated to RTM modeling. Experimental data were produced using a glass-fiber cloth (0/90) perform, which was impregnated with a vegetable oil in an RTM radial infiltration. Several experiments were performed varying injection pressure and fiber volume content in order to observe their effect on the flow behavior. These data were input into ANSYS CFX and PAM-RTM using known porous media equations and they were used to model all experiments. Results of permeability, fluid viscosity, mold filling time, pressure field, variation of volume fraction of the phases and the flow velocity vector are presented and analyzed. An excellent correlation between experimental and simulated results was found (errors less than 10%), and PAM-RTM yielded smaller error than ANSYS CFX, but the latter allows greater flexibility.

Este trabalho visa estudar o fluxo de um fluido em um meio poroso (fibroso) durante o processo de Moldagem por Transferência de Resina (RTM) utilizando e comparando dois softwares comerciais: o ANSYS CFX, software de simulação numérica CFD não-dedicado a RTM, e o PAM-RTM, software de simulação numérica dedicado a esta aplicação. Foram utilizados dados experimentais, empregando uma pré-forma de tecido (0/90) de fibra de vidro e que foi impregnada por um óleo vegetal em injeção radial de RTM. Diversos experimentos foram realizados variando-se a pressão de injeção e o teor volumétrico de fibras a fim de observar o efeito no comportamento do fluxo. Com estes dados, alimentou-se o ANSYS CFX e o PAM-RTM utilizando equações dos meios porosos conhecidas, e foram feitas análises numéricas de todos os casos experimentais. Resultados de permeabilidade, viscosidade do fluido, tempo de preenchimento do molde, campo de pressão, variação da fração volumétrica das fases presentes e vetor velocidade de fluxo são apresentados e analisados. Concluiu-se que há uma sólida relação entre o experimental e o simulado (erros inferiores a 10%), o software PAM-RTM possui menor erro do que o ANSYS CFX quando comparados aos resultados experimentais, mas este último apresenta maior versatilidade de análises. / This work aims to study the flow of fluid through a porous (fibrous) media that occurs during Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) of composite materials and to compare it with the numerical results obtained with two commercial simulation software, ANSYS CFX, a general-use CFD package, and PAM-RTM, which is dedicated to RTM modeling. Experimental data were produced using a glass-fiber cloth (0/90) perform, which was impregnated with a vegetable oil in an RTM radial infiltration. Several experiments were performed varying injection pressure and fiber volume content in order to observe their effect on the flow behavior. These data were input into ANSYS CFX and PAM-RTM using known porous media equations and they were used to model all experiments. Results of permeability, fluid viscosity, mold filling time, pressure field, variation of volume fraction of the phases and the flow velocity vector are presented and analyzed. An excellent correlation between experimental and simulated results was found (errors less than 10%), and PAM-RTM yielded smaller error than ANSYS CFX, but the latter allows greater flexibility.

Diploma thesis named CFD simulation of the steam flow in the unregulated extraction of the steam turbine is about an analysis of the balance piston impact on the area of the steam turbine, where the extraction is located. First part describes basic knowledge of the steam turbine in general. At the end of this chapter, there is a description of the solved steam turbine. Next chapter is about introduction to the CFD. Practical part deals with a construction of 3D models, meshing and setting of the boundary conditions in the program ANSYS CFX. The main part of this thesis summarizes the results of the CFD simulation and stipulates the temperature range on the extraction pipe. In conclusion, there is a recommendation how to determine design temperature of the extraction pipe influenced by the balance piston.

The aim of the project was to get familiar with the environment of ANSYS CFX, create several models of fans and synchronous machine model in Autodesk inventor, create model of cooling medium flow through the machine with these fans and evaluation of results. Firstly the thesis describes the synchronous machine itself, losses of the machine, the flow of power of synchronous machine and methods of its cooling. Next the thesis describes each kind of heat transfer, laminar and turbulent flow. The thesis also refers of kind of the fans and the program used to calculate the flow Ansys CFX, including the method that Ansys used to calculate. The work describes the individual modification of fans and setting of calculation in ANSYS. Then displays the results of the analysis these fans for different numbers of fan blades and for modification of the fan. Then the thesis analyzes selected modifications due to changing speed. In the last chapter shows the analysis of flow in the machine with three different fans. In particular, there is shown the mass flow rate, pressure and its distribution on areas for evaluation.

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-03-12T16:50:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 GICELIA MOREIRA - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGEQ 2016..pdf: 5021034 bytes, checksum: 457c2c52b8b0021ca9e6c10a53a0f200 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-12T16:50:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GICELIA MOREIRA - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGEQ 2016..pdf: 5021034 bytes, checksum: 457c2c52b8b0021ca9e6c10a53a0f200 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-30 / Vazamento em oleodutos, além de prejuízos financeiros pode causar diversos danos ambientais, onde, o conhecimento dos fenômenos interfaciais de líquidos imiscíveis permite entender o processo de migração advectiva em dutos submarinos. Portanto, estas informações, possibilitam prever o comportamento e a forma geométrica da interface água-óleo e fornecer uma boa fundamentação fenomenológica no que diz respeito às teorias de perturbação, aos critérios de estabilidade e a modelagem matemática, bem como os padrões de escoamento nas vizinhanças do vazamento em dutos submersos. Diante disto, este trabalho, tem por objetivo estudar numericamente a influência do vazamento de óleo no mar a partir de duto submerso e vice-versa sobre o comportamento de fluidos. Para isso, adotou-se um modelo bidimensional com base nas equações de conservação de massa, momento linear e o modelo de turbulência k-ε padrão disponibilizado no Ansys CFX. O comportamento dinâmico do óleo e da água é representado com auxílio de campos de pressão, velocidade superficial e fração volumétrica de óleo e da água, vetores de velocidade. Os resultados das simulações indicam a presença de vazamento de óleo na correnteza marítima e de água para a corrente de óleo no tubo através do orifício de vazamento. / Leaks in pipelines, beyond financial losses can cause various environmental damage, where the knowledge of interfacial phenomena of immiscible liquids allows us to understand the advective migration process in subsea pipelines. Therefore, these informations allows to predict the behavior and geometrical form of water-oil interface and provide a good phenomenological foundation with respect to the theories of perturbation, the criteria of stability and the mathematical model as well as the flow patterns in around of the leakage starting from underwater pipelines. In view of this, this work aims to numerically study the influence of the oil leak in the sea starting from submerged pipe or the opposite about behavior of fluids. For this, it was adopted a two-dimensional model based on mass conservation and linear momentum equations and the k-ε standard turbulence model available in Ansys CFX. The dynamic behavior of oil and water is shown with the aid of pressure, superficial velocity and volumetric fraction fields of oil and water and velocity vectors. The simulation results indicate the presence of oil spills in sea water in the stream and the water for oil tube through of the orifice leakage.

The present thesis is concerned with air flow over lightweight footbridge. Special attention is paid to flow-induced instabilities. The thesis opens with a theoretical elaboration on the phenomena related to the research matter. The next part investigates air flow over footbridge in a specific situation using numerical simulation in the Ansys CFX software. Finally, results are discussed in the light of chosen theoretical framework and relevant conclusions are presented.

The main goal of doctoral thesis is optimization cooling of the synchronous machine. Problem is solved based on the finite element method with use of ANSYS software. Work is built up from theoretical part where is comparison of base equations for heat transfer and simulations for several models. Next part shows us two methods how simulate free and force convection. Depends on the better method from the previous two methods is used for next calculations with several algorithm which are used for find of best parameters for synchronous machine. Our control parameter is mass flow rate.

World resources are becoming more and more scarce due to the increasing demand. Hence, the industry is moving towards sustainable development in order to suffice the needs of the future generations. Electricity is one such resources that account for 90% of the daily utility. In Sweden alone 378 TWh of electricity is consumed over a year. The major source of production of electricity is the fossil fuels, but due to development in the renewable resource's the electricity is also produced using solar, wind and geothermal energy. However, no production process is 100% efficient and hence, there is loss of energy in the form of waste. Organic Rankine Cycle Turbine (ORC) is a technology which is under the focus of the researcher and the industry to convert this wasteful energy into useful energy. Designing of these machines is a challenging task which requires careful consideration of every design parameter, i.e. with the change in every parameter the losses in the turbine either increase or decrease. In this study, effect of the parameters such as inlet mach number, stagger angle, inlet angle and pitch to chord is studied to see the effect on the profile loss. Since ANSYS Fluent works with 2D unlike ANSYS CFX which work with pseudo 2D geometry, ANSYS Fluent was used for investigating profile loss. Furthermore, a methodology is defined to investigate the tip leakage loss based on the geometry provided by the Againity AB for future studies. Tip leakage loss simulations were carried out in ANSYS CFX turbo mode due to its user friendly interface for simulating turbo machinery flows. The results of the profile loss investigation suggested a range for parameters where the profile loss is observed to be comparatively lower than elsewhere. The methodology proposed for tip leakage loss investigation paved a pathway for the further improvement with respect to the future studies.

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-03-23T01:44:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 GUSTAVO GOMES SAMPAIO CURSINO - TESE PPGEQ 2016.pdf: 5939681 bytes, checksum: 518baf4150ea2fb7085706252276b9fa (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-23T01:44:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GUSTAVO GOMES SAMPAIO CURSINO - TESE PPGEQ 2016.pdf: 5939681 bytes, checksum: 518baf4150ea2fb7085706252276b9fa (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-18 / Este trabalho teve o propósito de determinar o comportamento dos gases na seção de radiação de um combustor de ar que pertence a uma planta industrial. O corpo metálico do equipamento rompeu em seu primeiro ano de operação, devido a um problema conceitual em sua geometria. A fluidodinâmica computacional (CFD), por meio do método dos volumes finitos, foi utilizada para desenvolver um modelo tridimensional que pudesse reproduzir o perfil de temperatura e o comportamento do fluxo do ar de combustão no equipamento. Na simulação, através do uso do software ANSYS CFX, foram utilizados: (i) o modelo de turbulência Reynolds Stress Model (RSM); (ii) as malhas hexaédrica, tetraédrica e prismática; (iii) o modelo de radiação P-1; e (iv) o modelo de combustão Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC). Como resultado, foram apresentadas quatro possíveis mudanças na geometria do combustor de ar que, caso adotadas, eliminariam os riscos de novas falhas e garantiriam a continuidade operacional da unidade de processo. / This paper has the objective to describe the behavior of the flow and temperature of the flue gas in the radiation section of the vessel used to preheat air in a combustor. The equipment failed in its first operational year, due to a conceptual problem in its geometry. The CFD code based on finite volume method was applied to simulate the physical model of combustor using the ANSYS CFX software, reproducing the main features of the preheater. The simulation had considered: (i) Reynolds Stress Model (RSM) as turbulence model, (ii) The meshes applied were the hexahedral, tetrahedral and prismatic, (iii) P-1 was used as the radiation model and (iv) Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC) as combustion model. Through the simulation was possible to propose four different kind of combustor geometry modification, that the application of anyone of them would eliminate the risk of new failures, ensuring the unit production availability.