Analysis of a turbulent buoyant confined jet modeled using realizable k-ε model

El-Amin, Mohamed; Sun, Shuyu; Heidemann, Wolfgang; Müller-Steinhagen, Hans M.

Analysis of a turbulent buoyant confined jet modeled using realizable k-ε model

Type

Article

Authors

El-Amin, Mohamed

Sun, Shuyu

Heidemann, Wolfgang
Müller-Steinhagen, Hans M.

KAUST Department

Computational Transport Phenomena Lab
Earth Science and Engineering Program
Environmental Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division

Online Publication Date

2010-06-13

Print Publication Date

2010-10

Date

2010-06-13

Abstract

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/s00231-010-0625-3

Acknowledgements

The first author would like to thank the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation, Germany for funding the post-doctoral fellowship.