Analysis of a turbulent buoyant confined jet modeled using realizable k-ε model
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ArticleKAUST Department
Computational Transport Phenomena LabEarth Science and Engineering Program
Environmental Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2010-06-13Online Publication Date
2010-06-13Print Publication Date
2010-10Permanent link to this record
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Through this paper, analyses of components of the unheated/heated turbulent confined jet are introduced and some models to describe them are developed. Turbulence realizable k-ε model is used to model the turbulence of this problem. Numerical simulations of 2D axisymmetric vertical hot water confined jet into a cylindrical tank have been done. Solutions are obtained for unsteady flow while velocity, pressure, temperature and turbulence distributions inside the water tank are analyzed. For seeking verification, an experiment was conducted for measuring of the temperature of the same system, and comparison between the measured and simulated temperature shows a good agreement. Using the simulated results, some models are developed to describe axial velocity, centerline velocity, radial velocity, dynamic pressure, mass flux, momentum flux and buoyancy flux for both unheated (non-buoyant) and heated (buoyant) jet. Finally, the dynamics of the heated jet in terms of the plume function which is a universal quantity and the source parameter are studied and therefore the maximum velocity can be predicted theoretically. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.Citation
El-Amin, M. F., Sun, S., Heidemann, W., & Müller-Steinhagen, H. (2010). Analysis of a turbulent buoyant confined jet modeled using realizable k–ɛ model. Heat and Mass Transfer, 46(8-9), 943–960. doi:10.1007/s00231-010-0625-3Sponsors
The first author would like to thank the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation, Germany for funding the post-doctoral fellowship.Publisher
Springer NatureJournal
Heat and Mass Transferae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s00231-010-0625-3