The flow characteristics of turbulent pulsating flows are investigated numerically in the entrance region of a square duct (40 mm × 40 mm and 4,000 mm). The numerical analysis are incorporated by finite-volume discretization with staggered grid syste...
The flow characteristics of turbulent pulsating flows are investigated numerically in the entrance region of a square duct (40 mm × 40 mm and 4,000 mm). The numerical analysis are incorporated by finite-volume discretization with staggered grid system and SIMPLE algorithm.
The numerical solution are compared with experimental results of mean velocity profiles, turbulence intensity, pressure distribution, shear stress distribution and entrance length.
Time-averaged velocity profiles of the turbulent pulsating flows follow the one-seventh power law profile in the fully developed flow region.
Turbulence intensity increases as the dimensionless transverse position increases from the center to the wall of the duct, and is slightly smaller in the accelerating phase than in the decelerating phase for the turbulent pulsating flows.
Shear stress distribution show maxmun when angular frequency is about 3 and minimum when angular frequency is about 0.
The entrance length of the turbulent pulsating flow is about 40 times as large as the hydraulic diameter under the present numerical solution.