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http://dx.doi.org/10.5916/jkosme.2013.37.4.358

Porous modeling for the prediction of pressure drop through a perforated strainer  

Jung, Il-Sun (동아대학교 대학원 기계공학과)
Park, Jae-Hyun (한국조선해양기자재연구원)
Bae, Jae-Hwan (한국조선해양기자재연구원)
Kang, Sangmo (동아대학교 기계공학과)
Abstract
In the present paper, we apply a porous modelling technique to accurately predict the pressure drop through the strainer by replacing all or some of the filter composed of perforated plates with porous media and there imposing the streamwise and transverse loss coefficients required according to the Forchheimer law and then confirm its effectiveness. At first, the streamwise coefficient is obtained by performing a simple simulation on the pipe flow mimicking the hole flow. Subsequently, the transverse coefficient is obtained by setting a unit pattern to have common flow loss characteristics with the repeated shape patterns in the filter, then performing numerical simulations on the prototype and porous model of the unit shape pattern, and finally comparing their results of pressure drop. To validate the applied modeling technique, we perform the numerical simulation with the two specified loss coefficients on a whole shape of strainer and compare the modeling results with those of the corresponding prototype numerical simulation. Comparison indicates that the modeling technique can predict the pressure drop and flow characteristics comparatively accurately and save the number of nodes closely related to the computational cost (CPU and memory) by about 3~4 times compared with the prototype simulation.
Keywords
Porous modelling; Directional loss coefficients; Strainer; Perforated plates; Forchheimer law;
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