Flow in Expanding Pipe
THIS INTERACTIVE TOOL WAS DEVELOPED AT UT
AUSTIN BY Liwei Han, UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF
PROFESSOR. Spyros A. Kinnas, 2011.
PERMISSION TO LINK TO THIS PROGRAMT AND TO
DOWNLOAD OR TO USE THE RELATED CODE, MUST BE GRANTED BY PROFESSOR Spyros A. Kinnas ( kinnas@mail.utexas.edu ).
Problem
Specification

- Consider
fluid flowing through a pipe with the variable area diameter. Diameter at
inlet R1 = 0.1 m; Diameter at
outlet R2=0.2m.
- Fluid
density ρ = 1 kg/(m3); Viscosity μ = 1×10-5 kg/(ms).
.
- Uniform
velocity profile at inlet U =
0.5 m/s.
- Reynolds
number at inlet Re = ρUD/μ = 5,000.
- Hydrostatic
pressures are ignored.
- 2D
axisymmetric analysis was performed in ANSYS Fluent.
Setup Instructions
- Download
and install the Runtime Library of Matlab 2010a
for the first time before running the program. You only need to install
the Runtime Library once for all different cases
- Matlab 2010a
Runtime Library
- Download
the interactive tool (compiled) and run it in your computer.
- Case of flow in expanding pipe