Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Transport of Sand-Water Mixtures in Pipelines - Open Journal of Fluid Dynamics

OJFD > Vol.3 No.4, December 2013

Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Transport of Sand-Water Mixtures in Pipelines ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ojfd.2013.34033 4,557 Downloads 7,630 Views Citations

Author(s)

Changhee Kim, Cheolheui Han

Affiliation(s)

Department of Aeronautical and Mechanical Design, Korea National University of Transportation, Chungju, South Korea.
Hyundai Engineering & Construction Company, Seoul, South Korea.

ABSTRACT

The development of empirical model for the hydraulic transport of sand-water mixtures is important for the design of economical solid-liquid transportation system in chemical and waste-disposal industries. The hydraulic transport characteristics of sand-water mixtures in circular pipelines are numerically investigated by using the FLUENT commercial software. Eulerian granular multiphase (EGM) model with the k-e turbulent model is used for the computation. Present method is validated by the computed values with the measured data. The effect of the concentration and pipe sizes on the relative solid effect is numerically investigated. It is found that the effect of the volumetric delivered concentration on both hydraulic gradient and solid effect increases as the Reynolds number decreases. When the Reynolds number is small, the increase in the volumetric delivered concentration has an effect of decreasing the hydraulic gradient whereas the solid effect increases with the volumetric delivered concentration stepping up. The effect of the pipe diameter is not the critical parameter for deciding the values of the relative solid effect in the sand-water mixture transportation.

KEYWORDS

Computational Fluid Dynamics; Hydraulic Transport; Solid Effect; Sand-Water Mixture

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C. Kim and C. Han, "Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Transport of Sand-Water Mixtures in Pipelines," Open Journal of Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 3 No. 4, 2013, pp. 266-270. doi: 10.4236/ojfd.2013.34033.

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