Study and Design of Inlet Manifold for Swirling Effect

Abstract

The "swirl" term is preferable to "turbulence", which implies movement without overall pattern of the mixture or fluid. It is a dimensionless parameter to quantity the rotational motion. As our topic name Study and Design of Inlet Manifold for Swirling Effect we are going to swirl the air in pipe which is having specific diameter. Nowadays many geometric shapes and geometric pattern are available for swirling effect but according to application the pattern changes. In our project we are going design a swirling geometry which will be efficient to create a swirl effect. We are going to compare the results of motion of air with swirl and without swirl from our experimental setup. Coming to our methodology we are going to build a setup which consist of water pump, swirling component or geometry. Firstly, we are going to study effect of three designed geometry and will checked for optimum swirling effect by using CFD software. After selecting optimum geometry, we are going to install selected geometry in pipe through which water is going to be passed. With the help of water pump and flow control valve we can set up the pressure and flow of water at inlet. After passing the water through the swirling geometry we are going to measure the outlet parameter i.e. Discharge and velocity. Then we are going to determine whether the Swirling effect has been practically achieved or not, by comparing the results obtained from CFD analysis and experimental setup.