Numerical Investigation on Thermal Mixing Related to Eddy Structure in T-Junction

Abstract

Numerical simulations for a T-pipe consisting of a rectangular duct for main stream and a circular pipe for branch stream were performed to investigate relation between large-scale eddy structure formation in the mixing area and temperature fluctuation generation on the wall. Moreover, the numerical simulation to investigate thermal interaction between fluid and structure were conducted. Experimental results of temperatures at 2mm from the wall in fluid, on the wall and at 3mm inside from the wall in structure were compared with those of the numerical results. The numerical results indicate that the fluid-structure thermal interaction is necessarily considered for thermal fatigue estimation in the thermal striping phenomena.