Separated and Reattached Flows

ISBN-13: 9783639134063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 232 str.

Mohammad Khalid Shah

Opis

An experimental program was designed to study thesalient features of separated and reattached flows inpressure gradients generated in asymmetric divergingand converging channels. Reference measurements werealso made in a parallel-wall channel to facilitatethe interpretation of the pressure gradient flows. Atransverse square rib located at the start ofconvergence/divergence was used to create separationinside the channels. In order to simplify theinterpretation of the relatively complex separatedand reattached flows in the asymmetric converging anddiverging channels, measurements were made in theplain converging and diverging channel without therib on the channel wall. All the measurements wereobtained using a high resolution particle imagevelocimetry technique. From these measurements, meanvelocity, Reynolds stresses and higher orderturbulent quantities including terms in the transportequation of the turbulent kinetic energy werereported. The structure of flow was furtherinvestigated using a proper orthogonal technique.

O autorze

Mohammad Khalid Shah was born on June 2nd, 1980. He completed
his B.Eng. degree at Ryerson University in June 2002. He
obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree from University of Manitoba.
The most important findings of this Ph.D. research are reported
in this thesis. Since the 1st of October, 2008 he works at
Schlumberger as a Mechanical Engineer.