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The objective of this paper is to numerically investigate the unsteady cavitating flow around a four-blade inducer, with focus on the cavitation instability and the flow-induced vibration characteristics. In the numerical simulati...
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The objective of this paper is to numerically investigate the unsteady cavitating flow around a four-blade inducer, with focus on the cavitation instability and the flow-induced vibration characteristics. In the numerical simulation, the modified rotation/curvature correction turbulence model and the Zwart cavitation model are used for the simulation of the flow field. The tightly coupled algorithm is adopted for the precise prediction of the fluid-structure interaction, including the calculation of the hydrodynamic loads based on the multiphase fluid dynamics and the computation of the structural displacement via the Finite Element Method (FEM). The results showed that good agreement has been obtained between the experimental and numerical results. The fluctuation of cavity volume is the main cause of the change in the head of the inducer, and the backflow vortex cavitation has little effect on that at this flow condition. The backflow vortex cavity develops and rotates with the blades of the inducer, but with a much lower rotational velocity than that of the blades. The flow-induced vibration of the inducer caused by the unsteady cavitating flow mainly manifests as a first-order bending mode. The backflow vortex cavitation has a significant impact on the vibration of both the blades and the guide-water cone. Besides, a cavitation auto-oscillation at the inlet of the inducer has also been detected based on the phase correlation analysis.
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The effects of shear, uniaxial extension and temperature on the flow-induced crystallization of two different types of high-density polyethylene (a metallocene and a ZN-HDPE) are examined using rheometry. Shear and uniaxial extens...
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The effects of shear, uniaxial extension and temperature on the flow-induced crystallization of two different types of high-density polyethylene (a metallocene and a ZN-HDPE) are examined using rheometry. Shear and uniaxial extension experiments were performed at temperatures below and well above the peak melting point of the polyethylenes in order to characterize their flow-induced crystallization behavior at rates relevant to processing (elongational rates up to 30 s ~(-1) and shear rates 1 to 1,000 s ~(- 1) depending on the application). Generally, strain and strain rate found to enhance crystallization in both shear and elongation. In particular, extensional flow was found to be a much stronger stimulus for polymer crystallization compared to shear. At temperatures well above the melting peak point (up to 25°C), polymer crystallized under elongational flow, while there was no sign of crystallization under simple shear. A modified Kolmogorov crystallization model (Kolmogorov, Bull Akad Sci USSR, Class Sci, Math Nat 1:355-359, 1937) proposed by Tanner and Qi (Chem Eng Sci 64:4576-4579, 2009) was used to describe the crystallization kinetics under both shear and elongational flow at different temperatures.
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The effects of shear, uniaxial extension and temperature on the flow-induced crystallization of two different types of high-density polyethylene (a metallocene and a ZN-HDPE) are examined using rheometry. Shear and uniaxial extens...
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The effects of shear, uniaxial extension and temperature on the flow-induced crystallization of two different types of high-density polyethylene (a metallocene and a ZN-HDPE) are examined using rheometry. Shear and uniaxial extension experiments were performed at temperatures below and well above the peak melting point of the polyethylenes in order to characterize their flow-induced crystallization behavior at rates relevant to processing (elongational rates up to 30 s − 1 and shear rates 1 to 1,000 s − 1 depending on the application). Generally, strain and strain rate found to enhance crystallization in both shear and elongation. In particular, extensional flow was found to be a much stronger stimulus for polymer crystallization compared to shear. At temperatures well above the melting peak point (up to 25°C), polymer crystallized under elongational flow, while there was no sign of crystallization under simple shear. A modified Kolmogorov crystallization model (Kolmogorov, Bull Akad Sci USSR, Class Sci, Math Nat 1:355–359, 1937) proposed by Tanner and Qi (Chem Eng Sci 64:4576–4579, 2009) was used to describe the crystallization kinetics under both shear and elongational flow at different temperatures.
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To date, it has been shown that the vibration response of an elastically mounted sphere undergoing vortex-induced vibration (VIV) can be controlled by imposing rotary oscillations at frequencies close to the vibration frequency. H...
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To date, it has been shown that the vibration response of an elastically mounted sphere undergoing vortex-induced vibration (VIV) can be controlled by imposing rotary oscillations at frequencies close to the vibration frequency. Here, we demonstrate that rotary oscillations imposed at significantly higher frequencies can be used to directly influence shear-layer vortex shedding and consequently reduce vibration. This approach contrasts with aiming to directly target the large-scale wake structures, using lower frequency perturbations. The oscillation frequencies imposed were between 5 and 35 times the natural frequency of the system and the amplitude of the rotational velocities were only 10% of the free-stream velocity. The effects of the rotary oscillations were found to vary significantly across sphere vibration modes. In the mode III transition regime significant attenuation of the vibration response was observed for a narrow band of rotary oscillation frequencies. Time-resolved particle image velocimetry revealed that the shear-layer vortex structures locked to the forcing frequency, where suppression of the vibration response occurred. Optimal tuning of the oscillation frequency reduced the vibration amplitude in the mode III transition regime by 84%, with a rotational velocity amplitude of only 10% of freestream. These results show low-amplitude shear-layer forcing is a promising method of more efficiently suppressing VIV of three-dimensional geometries. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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The article addresses the relevance of shear and uniaxial extensional flow behaviour on the crystallisation of isotactic polypropylenes differing in terms of molar mass distribution (MMD). The importance of combining several exper...
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The article addresses the relevance of shear and uniaxial extensional flow behaviour on the crystallisation of isotactic polypropylenes differing in terms of molar mass distribution (MMD). The importance of combining several experimental techniques, namely rheological, thermal and microscopic, to follow the response of the material arising from the application of given processing conditions, is here demonstrated. Systems with a broader MMD possessing even residual amounts of high molar mass (MM) tails were shown to be more prone to develop b-phase crystallites. The latter effect was seen to be a consequence of the application of a step shear at a temperature for which the formation of b-phase is known to be preferential.
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The article addresses the relevance of shear and uniaxial extensional flow behaviour on the crystallisation of isotactic polypropylenes differing in terms of molar mass distribution (MMD). The importance of combining several exper...
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The article addresses the relevance of shear and uniaxial extensional flow behaviour on the crystallisation of isotactic polypropylenes differing in terms of molar mass distribution (MMD). The importance of combining several experimental techniques, namely rheological, thermal and microscopic, to follow the response of the material arising from the application of given processing conditions, is here demonstrated. Systems with a broader MMD possessing even residual amounts of high molar mass (M M) tails were shown to be more prone to develop β-phase crystallites. The latter effect was seen to be a consequence of the application of a step shear at a temperature for which the formation of β-phase is known to be preferential.
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The rheological and structural properties of perfluoropolyether (PFPE) lubricant films including viscosity, shear stress, and birefringence were measured at relatively low to extremely high shear rates using a rotational optical r...
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The rheological and structural properties of perfluoropolyether (PFPE) lubricant films including viscosity, shear stress, and birefringence were measured at relatively low to extremely high shear rates using a rotational optical rheometer. The viscosity of various films with different thicknesses exhibit Newtonian behavior up to a shear rate 1 × 104 s?1, with a transition to shear-thinning behavior obvious at higher shear rates. Birefringence of these films was also measured for the first time, and these results indicate chain alignment with shear in the shear-thinning regime. The shear rate at which alignment occurs is similar to that of the onset of shear thinning. This correlation between chain alignment and shear thinning provides direct evidence that the ability of PFPEs to lubricate hard drives at high shear rates is a direct consequence of the ability of the applied shear field to align the molecules on a molecular level.
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Flow-induced vibration (FIV) of a flexible cylinder with an upstream wake interference at a subcritical Reynolds number is numerically investigated in this study. Two cylinders are installed in a tandem arrangement with the tandem...
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Flow-induced vibration (FIV) of a flexible cylinder with an upstream wake interference at a subcritical Reynolds number is numerically investigated in this study. Two cylinders are installed in a tandem arrangement with the tandem separation between the cylinder centers set at 5.0 diameters. The downstream cylinder is flexible and placed in the wake of the stationary rigid upstream cylinder. A quasi-threedimensional fluid-structure interaction (FSI) numerical methodology that couples the strip theory-based Lagrangian discrete vortex method with the finite-element method (FEM) for structural dynamics is developed to simulate the FIV response of the flexible cylinder with the upstream wake interference. The vortex-induced vibration (VIV) of an identical isolated cylinder is also numerically simulated as a contrast. This numerical study characterizes the dynamic response of the cylinder FIV with the upstream wake interference and sheds light on the FSI mechanisms responsible for the structural dynamic response. With the upstream wake interference, the cylinder FIV response shows two features distinct from the isolated VIV response: the vibration of large amplitude during the modal resonance branch transition and the extension of the modal resonance branch. The hydrodynamic coefficients database is constructed by the rigid cylinder forced vibration experiment to help explain the FSI properties of the FIV dynamic response. The lower added mass coefficient for the FIV with the upstream wake interference than the VIV of the isolated cylinder guarantees the synchronization between the vortex shedding frequency and the "true” natural frequency of the structure persisting to higher reduced velocity in a certain modal resonance response branch. The excitation coefficient distribution indicates that the cylinder FIV with the upstream wake interference reaches higher amplitude at high reduced velocity, instead of ceasing resonance as the isolated cylinder. The numerical wake vi
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A number of occurrences of flow-induced vibration in the power-generating industry are presented, many in nuclear plant where all incidents/problems have to be reported. Specifically, cases of (i) vortex-induced vibration (VIV), (...
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A number of occurrences of flow-induced vibration in the power-generating industry are presented, many in nuclear plant where all incidents/problems have to be reported. Specifically, cases of (i) vortex-induced vibration (VIV), (ii) fluidelastic instability in cylinder arrays, (iii) axial and (iv) annular-flow-induced vibration, (v) leakage-flow instability and (vi) shell-type ovalling are discussed. For items (ii), (v) and (vi), a few words on the mechanisms underlying the vibration are provided.
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Continuous extrusion was studied of self-reinforced high density polyethylene (HDPE) sheets from flow-induced crystallization at die pressures varying from 30 to 60 MPa. Their morphology, thermal behavior, tensile strength, and li...
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Continuous extrusion was studied of self-reinforced high density polyethylene (HDPE) sheets from flow-induced crystallization at die pressures varying from 30 to 60 MPa. Their morphology, thermal behavior, tensile strength, and light transmittance were tested. Flow fields of a polymer melt through a converging wedge channel were also investigated by direct visual observations in conjunction with a theoretical analysis. The extensional strain rate increased abruptly as the melt approached the exit of the converging channel, this resulting in a higher crystallization rate. So, achieving the crystallization of molecular chains just in front of the exit of the converging channel may favor to extrude the bulk polymeric materials having high properties under lower pressures (e.g., 40 MPa or lower), this having been realized in the present work. The tensile strength of the self-reinforced HDPE sheet prepared at a 40 MPa pressure was enhanced by a factor of 8. [References: 14]
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