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Axisymmetric Predictions of Fluid Flow inside a Rotating Cavity System

Keywords: Rotating Cavity Flow System, Reynolds Number, Finite Difference Method, Axisymmetric Cylindrical Polar Coordinate Frame of Reference

Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology

Volume 32 ,  Issue 3

MUJEEBUDDIN  MEMON,ABDUL FATAH  ABBASI,JAWAID  DAUDPOTO

Abstract

Accurate prediction of fluid flow in the rotating cavity system is of practical interest as it is most commonly used in the gas turbine engines and compressors. This paper presents the numerical predictions of a rotating cavity flow system for Reynolds numbers of the range 1x105 < Re? < 4x105 and two different mass flow rates Cw=1092 and 2184. A finite-difference technique is employed for a Steady-state solution in the axisymmetric cylindrical polar coordinate frame of reference. The two low Reynolds number turbulence models, the low Reynolds number k-? model and the low Reynolds number second moment closure have been used to compute the basic characteristics of the flow inside the rotating cavity flow system. Different flow regions have been identified by computing flow structures and dimensions of those regions have also been studied under different flow rates. A comparison of the computed variation of moment coefficient of both the turbulence models are presented for the above mentioned parameters and the parametric effects on the moment coefficients have been discussed