Flow in Contracting 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 changing diameter. Diameter at inlet
R1 = 0.2 m; Diameter at outlet R2 = 0.1m.
- Fluid
density ρ = 1 kg/(m3); Viscosity μ = 1×10-5 kg/(ms).
- Uniform velocity
profile at inlet U = 0.25 m/s.
- Reynolds
number at pipe 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 contracting pipe