Prediction of strongly swirling flow within an axial hydrocyclone using two commercial CFD codes

Numerical and experimental study of an axially induced swirling pipe flow

“…Several experimental works can be mentioned, such as Yajnik and Subbaiah (1973), Weske and Struve (1974), Murakami et al (1976), Kitoh (1991), Li and Tomita (1994), Dirkzwager (1996), Yan et al (2000) and Jawarneh and Vatistas (2006). Also, analytical and numerical studies have been done by Talbot (1954), Weber (1956), Najafi et al (2003), Jawarneh and Vatistas (2006), Murphy et al (2007) and Benim et al (2007). We can refer the work by Talbot (1954) for laminar and Kitoh (1991) and Steenbergen and Voskamp (1998) for turbulent swirling flow, centered on swirl intensity decay rate in the axial direction for the problem solution.…”

LDA and PIV characterization of the flow in a hydrocyclone without an air-core

“…However, it is undeniable that the recent advances in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) have offered alternative ways to the design of efficient separators that have become very attractive in terms of cost reduction and time saving. Important contributions are the recent works of Narasimha et al (2006), Udaya Bhaskar et al (2007) and Murphy et al (2007).…”

Direct Numerical Simulation and Visualization of Biswirling Jets

“…The mechanism of VB and application of swirling flow in energy power engineering have been extensively investigated for many decades, either experimentally or theoretically [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. For example, to improve cyclone performance of press drop and separation efficiency, Liu et al [6] conducted a stereoscopic PIV study on the swirling flow structure in a gas cyclone by measuring the instantaneous velocities in the whole field simultaneously.…”

“…For example, to improve cyclone performance of press drop and separation efficiency, Liu et al [6] conducted a stereoscopic PIV study on the swirling flow structure in a gas cyclone by measuring the instantaneous velocities in the whole field simultaneously. Murphy et al [8] performed numerical prediction of strongly swirling flow in an axial hydrocyclone by using two commercial CFD codes of FLUENT and CFX. Their results predicted the main feature of strong swirling flow with core recirculation and a typical Rankin vortex with inner quasi-forced vortex and outer quasi-free vortex.…”