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http://dx.doi.org/10.6112/kscfe.2012.17.3.059

REYNOLDS NUMBER EFFECTS ON MASS TRANSFER IN TURBULENT PIPE FLOW: PART II. INSTANTANEOUS CONCENTRATION FIELD, HIGHER-ORDER STATISTICS AND MASS TRANSFER BUDGETS

Kang, Chang-Woo (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Inha Univ.)
Yang, Kyung-Soo (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Inha Univ.)

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Journal of computational fluids engineering / v.17, no.3, 2012 , pp. 59-67 More about this Journal

Abstract

Large Eddy Simulation(LES) of turbulent mass transfer in fully developed turbulent pipe flow has been performed to study the effect of Reynolds number on the concentration fields at $Re_{\tau}=180$ , 395, 590 based on friction velocity and pipe radius. Dynamic subgrid-scale models for the turbulent subgrid-scale stresses and mass fluxes were employed to close the governing equations. Fully developed turbulent pipe flows with constant mass flux imposed at the wall are studied for Sc=0.71. The mean concentration profiles and turbulent intensities obtained from the present LES are in good agreement with the previous numerical and experimental results currently available. The effects of Reynolds number on the turbulent mass transfer are identified in the higher-order statistics(Skewness and Flatness factor) and instantaneous concentration fields. The budgets of turbulent mass fluxes and concentration variance were computed and analyzed to elucidate the effect of Reynolds number on turbulent mass transfer. Furthermore, to understand the correlation between near-wall turbulence structure and concentration fluctuation, we present an octant analysis in the vicinity of the pipe wall.

Keywords

Large Eddy Simulation; Turbulent pipe flow; Mass transfer;

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