COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF Register

Expt. No.: 5 Number:16BME0092

PARALLEL FLOW OF HOT AND COLD
Date :25/02/19 FLUID THROUGH A PIPE Slot:L3+L4

OBJECTIVE OF THE EXPERIMENT:

To simulate the Three dimensional mixing of hot and cold fluid parallel flow through a pipe.

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
Consider the steady flow of hot and cold fluids as shown in the figure.

Consider water as fluid enters to the branched pipe, the properties of water are, in hot side water
enters with the velocity of 0.1 m/s and temperature of 380k and in cold side water enters the pipe at
0.1 m/s and 27 °C the outlet is open to the atmosphere. Calculate and plot the temperature and
velocity distribution in the geometry.

Meshing part :

Part -1 Cold fluid Outer face : Element face sizing 1.25 cm

In and outer face: Element face sizing 0.05 cm
Part -2 Copper tube Inner & Outer face : Element face sizing 1.25 cm
In and outer face: Element face 0.0075 cm
Part -3 Hot fluid Inner & Outer face: Element face sizing 1.25 cm
In and outer face: Element face sizing 0.05cm

SOFTWARES USED:
1. ANSYS – WORKBENCH (Fluent)

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GOVERNING EQUATION:
Continuity Equation:

u - Momentum:

v - Momentum:

Energy Equation:

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS:
Edge Type of Boundary Boundary Condition
Cold inlet Wall Velocity=0.1m/s
Temperature=300K
Cold outlet Wall Pressure=0
Hot inlet Wall Velocity=0.1m/s
Temperature=380K
Hot outlet Wall Pressure=0

PROCEDURE:
Geometry-
➢ Open Ansys 15
➢ Right click on the properties and change the Analysis type to 3D
➢ Double click on the geometry
➢ Right click on the X-Y plane and select look at.
➢ Change the units into centimeter.
➢ Select sketching and then in constraints select auto constraints.
➢ Then draw the circle and apply the dimensions as 2cm as diameter.
➢ Click extrude and extrude it to 50cm.

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 ➢ Again, look at XY plane and select new sketch.
➢ Select the previous circle and draw new circle with dia 2.1cm and extrude and change the
operation as frozen.
➢ Repeat the same above procedure for drawing another circle with dia 3.5cm.

Meshing:
➢ Select geometry in that click cold domain and right click and select all other bodies
➢ Name all the sections as cold inlet, cold outlet,flso_interface_cold outlet surface,
flso_interface_copper inside, flso_interface_copper outside, flso_interface_hot inner
surface by create named selections.
➢ Right click on the mesh and select insert and sizing. In that, by using the face filter and
select the repective faces and give required number of divisions.
➢ Right click on the mesh sizing and turn off the advanced sizing.

Problem setup:
➢ After completing the meshing part, from the workbench, click the setup option.
➢ Select setup and check double precision and in process options give parallel as 4.
➢ Then a new window appears and in that select model and double click on the energy and
check box energy.
➢ Go to materials and click create/edit and select fluid database. In that in liquid select
water and click copy. Similarly, for solid copper.
➢ Click the boundary value conditions and select the cold inlet and click edit change the
velocity to 0.1 and temperature to 300k. and for cold outlet change into pressure outlet.
➢ Similarly, for hot inlet with respective conditions given in the problem statement.
➢ Then go to the mesh interface and create the interfaces between two faces accordingly.
➢ Click solution initialize and select compute from inlet and then click initialize.
➢ Click the run calculations and set no. of iterations as 500 and click calculate.

Results and plots

➢ In results click on the surface and then on plane.
➢ Create a YZ plane that is passing through the central axis.

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 ➢ Then find the graphs or counters of pressure, temperature, velocity and save it.
➢ Click on the calculation and select function calculator and select functions on average to
get the average temperature of cold inlet, cold outlet, hot inlet, hot outlet.

RESULT CONTOUR:
pressure

temperature

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velocity

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INFERENCE:
The temperature, velocity, pressure distributions are found out and hot oulet and cold inlet
temperatures are found.
RESULT:
Area Average of Temperature on cold_inlet

300 [K]

Area Average of Temperature on cold_outlet

310.968 [K]
Area Average of Temperature on hot_inlet

380 [K]
Area Average of Temperature on hot_outlet

376.098 [K]

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