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Internal flow losses : a fresh look at old concepts
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2011-05-31
Sprache
English
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Journal
Volume
133
Issue
5
Article Number
051201
Citation
Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME 133 (5): 051201 (2011)
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Publisher
ASME
Losses in a flow field due to single conduit components often are characterized by experimentally determined head loss coefficients K. These coefficients are defined and determined with the pressure as the critical quantity. A thermodynamic definition, given here as an alternative, is closer to the physics of flow losses, however. This definition is based upon the dissipation of mechanical energy as main quantity. With the second law of thermodynamics this dissipation can be linked to the local entropy generation in the flow field. For various conduit components K values are determined and physically interpreted by determining the entropy generation in the component as well as upstream and downstream of it. It turns out that most of the losses occur downstream of the components what carefully has to be taken into account when several components are combined in a flow network. © 2011 American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Subjects
90 deg bend combinations
entropy generation
internal flow
k - SST low-Re turbulence model
loss coefficients
second law analysis
DDC Class
530: Physik
600: Technik
620: Ingenieurwissenschaften