The aim of this thesis is three-fold: i) to investigate the performance of both the Eulerian-Lagrangian model and the Eulerian-Eulerian model to simulate the turbulent gas-particle flow; ii) to investigate the indoor airflows and contaminant particle flows using the Eulerian-Lagrangian model; iii) to develop and validate particle-wall collision models and a wall roughness model for the Eulerian-Lagrangian model and to utilize these models to investigate the effects of wall roughness on the particle flows. Firstly, the Eulerian-Lagrangian model in the software package FLUENT (FLUENT Inc.) and the Eulerian-Eulerian model in an in-house research code were employed to simulate the gas-particle flows. The validation against the measurement for two-phase flow over backward facing step and in a 90-degree bend revealed that both CFD approaches provide reasonably good prediction for both the gas and particle phases. Then, the Eulerian-Lagrangian model was employed to investigate the indoor airflows and contaminant particle concentration in two geometrically different rooms. For the first room configuration, the performances of three turbulence models for simulating indoor airflow were evaluated and validated against the measured air phase velocity data. All the three turbulence models provided good prediction of the air phase velocity, while the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) model base on the Renormalization Group theory (RNG) provided the best agreement with the measurements. As well, the RNG LES model is able to provide the instantaneous air velocity and turbulence that are required for the evaluation and design of the ventilation system. In the other two-zone ventilated room configuration, contaminant particle concentration decay within the room was simulated and validated against the experimental data using the RNG LES model together with the Lagrangian model. The numerical results revealed that the particle-wall coll ision model has a considerable effect on the particle concentration prediction in the room. This research culminates with the development and implementation of particle-wall collision models and a stochastic wall roughness model in the Eulerian-Lagrangian model. This Eulerian-Lagrangian model was therefore used to simulate the gas-particle flow over an in-line tube bank. The numerical predictions showed that the wall roughness has a considerable effect by altering the rebounding behaviours of the large particles and consequently affecting the particles motion downstream along the in-line tube bank and particle impact frequency on the tubes. Also, the results demonstrated that for the large particles the particle phase velocity fluctuations are not influenced by the gas-phase fluctuations, but are predominantly determined by the particle-wall collision. For small particles, the influence of particle-wall collisions on the particle fluctuations can be neglected. Then, the effects of wall roughness on the gas-particle flow in a two-dimensional 90-degree bend were investigated. It was found that the wa ll roughness considerably altered the rebounding behaviours of particles by significantly reducing the 'particle free zone' and smoothing the particle number density profiles. The particle mean velocities were reduced and the particle fluctuating velocities were increased when taking into consideration the wall roughness, since the wall roughness produced greater randomness in the particle rebound velocities and trajectories.

Submitted by Maria Medeiros (maria.dilva1@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-09-26T14:20:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 CLÁUDIA DA SILVA BATISTA - TESE (PPGEP) 2009.pdf: 3258402 bytes, checksum: 334bd2bbc1cb52f81aa523fd16f4b763 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-26T14:20:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CLÁUDIA DA SILVA BATISTA - TESE (PPGEP) 2009.pdf: 3258402 bytes, checksum: 334bd2bbc1cb52f81aa523fd16f4b763 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-11-06 / Este trabalho teve por objetivo principal apresentar um estudo teórico e experimental da vazão mássica e do fluxo de produtos granulares para subsidiar o projeto estrutural em silos. Foi desenvolvido um modelo matemático para predizer a vazão de descarregamento para distintos produtos. Estudou-se as características físicas e de fluxo de cinco produtos granulares: painço, areia fina e três farelos de milho, e avaliou-se o comportamento do fluxo das partículas em um silo cilíndrico, equipado com fundo plano e tremonhas de 30 e 45 de inclinação com a vertical; diferentes orifícios de descarga, 3,5 e 5 cm de diâmetro; e três rugosidades das paredes, 0,06, 6,56 e 11,9 m. Concluiu-se que a rugosidade da parede, para a faixa estudada, não influenciou na vazão de descarregamento, para todos os produtos. As maiores vazões de descarregamento no silo foram registradas para a areia e as menores foram observadas para o farelo de milho M1, cuja razão aproximada foi de 2,5 para as diversas formas de descarregamento. As maiores vazões de descarga foram observadas quando o diâmetro do orifício de saída foi de 5 cm chegando a um valor de 1,35 kg/s. As menores vazões de descarregamento dos produtos foram registradas quando se utilizou a tremonha com inclinação de 30 com o valor de 0, 16 kg/s para o produto que apresentou as menores vazões, farelo de milho M1.O fenômeno “slip stick” foi verificado para as diferentes granulometrias do farelo de milho, sendo mais intenso para o M2. O modelo proposto apresentou ajuste razoável em relação aos dados experimentais. / This work was aimed at presenting a theoretical and experimental study of the mass flow and the flow of granular products to support the structural design of silos. We developed a mathematical model to predict the flow of discharge for different products. We studied the physical characteristics and flow of five granular products: millet, fine sand and three meals of corn, and evaluated the flow behavior of particles in a cylindrical silo, equipped with flat bottom hoppers 30 and 45 inclination to the vertical, different discharge outlets, 3.5 and 5cm in diameter and three m.roughness of the walls, 0.06, 6.56 and 11.9 It was concluded that the roughness of the wall, in the range studied did not influence the flow of discharge for all products. The highest rates of discharge were recorded in the silo for sand and the lowest was observed for the corn bran M1, whose approximate ratio was 2.5 for the various forms of discharge. The highest rates of discharge were observed when the diameter of the exit hole was 5 cm reaching a value of 1.35 kg / s. The lowest flow rate of discharge of the products were recorded when using the to the value of 0, 16 kg/s for the product hopper with an inclination of 30 that had the lowest flow rates, corn bran M1.O phenomenon "slip stick" was observed for different particle size of corn bran, being more intense for the M2. The proposed model presented a reasonable adjustment in relation to the experimental data.

An experimental study was undertaken to investigate the effect of roughness on the characteristics of separated and reattached turbulent shear flow downstream of a backward facing step. Particle image velocimetry technique was used to conducted refined velocity measurements over a reference smooth acrylic wall and rough walls produced from sandpaper 36 and 24 grits positioned downstream of a backward facing step, one after another. Each experiment was conducted at Reynolds number based on the step height and centerline mean velocity of 7050. The results showed that sandpaper 36 and 24 grits increased the reattachment length by 5% and 7%, respectively, compared with the value obtained over the smooth wall. The distributions of the mean velocities, Reynolds stresses, triple velocity correlations and turbulence production are used to examine roughness effects on the flow field downstream of the backward facing step. Two-point auto-correlation function and proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) are also used to investigate the impact of wall roughness on the large scale structures.

The thesis deals with the description of the unstable flow of non-Newtonian fluid in a slit-flow rheometer, which negatively affects its behaviour. The initiators of unstable fluid flow are the roughness of the rheometer slit walls, the slip on the rheometer walls, and the influence of the inlet and outlet region geometry of the rheometer slit. The work contains methodical procedures for mathematical consideration of individual unstable fluid flow initiators and design of change of slit geometry of slit-flow rheometer. Part of the work is also a comparison of the most commonly used rheological models, derivation of general relations for the creation of the velocity profile of individual rheological models and their subsequent implementation in the rheological application, which significantly simplifies the process of evaluation of measured data when measured on slit-flow rheometer. This application can be used to determine basic parameters in CFD simulations or as a teaching aid.

Direct numerical simulations of the receptivity and instability of boundary layers on flat and curved surfaces are herein reported. Various flow models are considered with the aim to capture aspects of flows over straight and swept wings such as wall curvature, pressure variations, leading-edge effects, streamline curvature and crossflow. The first model problem presented, the flow over a swept flat plate, features a crossflow inside the boundary layer. The layer is unstable to steady and traveling crossflow vortices which are nearly aligned with the free stream. Wall roughness and free-stream vortical modes efficiently excite these crossflow modes, and the associated receptivity mechanisms are linear in an environment of low-amplitude perturbations. Receptivity coefficients for roughness elements with various length scales and for free-stream vortical modes with different wavenumbers and frequencies are reported. Key to the receptivity to free-stream vorticity is the upstream excitation of streamwise streaks evolving into crossflow modes. This mechanism is also active in the presence of free-stream turbulence. The second flow model is that of a Görtler boundary layer. This flow type forms on surfaces with concave curvature, e.g. the lower side of a turbine blade. The dominant instability, driven by a vertically varying centrifugal force, appears as pairs of steady, streamwise counter-rotating vortical rolls and streamwise streaks. The Görtler boundary layer is in particular receptive to free-stream vortical modes with zero and low frequencies. The associated mechanism builds on the excitation of upstream disturbance streaks from which the Görtler modes emerge, similar to the mechanism in swept-plate flows. The receptivity to free-stream vorticity can both be linear and nonlinear. In the presence of free-stream turbulence, nonlinear receptivity is more likely to trigger steady Görtler vortices than linear receptivity unless the frequencies of the free-stream fluctuations are very low. The third set of simulations considers the boundary layer on a flat plate with an elliptic leading edge. This study aims to identify the effect of the leading edge on the boundary-layer receptivity to impinging free-stream vortical modes. Three types of modes with streamwise, vertical and spanwise vorticity are considered. The two former types trigger streamwise disturbance streaks while the latter type excites Tollmien-Schlichting wave packets in the shear layer. Simulations with two leading edges of different bluntness demonstrate that the leading-edge shape hardly influences the receptivity to streamwise vortices, whereas it significantly enhances the receptivity to vertical and spanwise vortices. It is shown that the receptivity mechanism to vertical free-stream vorticity involves vortex stretching and tilting - physical processes which are clearly enhanced by blunt leading edges. The last flow configuration studied models an infinite wing at 45 degrees sweep. This model is the least idealized with respect to applications in aerospace engineering. The set-up mimics the wind-tunnel experiments carried out by Saric and coworkers at the Arizona State University in the 1990s. The numerical method is verified by simulating the excitation of steady crossflow vortices through micron-sized roughness as realized in the experiments. Moreover, the receptivity to free-stream vortical disturbances is investigated and it is shown that the boundary layer is most receptive, if the free-stream modes are closely aligned with the most unstable crossflow mode / QC 20101025