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Novel strategies to enhance hydrodynamic cavitation in a circular venturi using RANS numerical simulations
Abstract
Hydrodynamic cavitation is a popular advanced oxidation technique and it has received wide range of applications from waste water treatment to the nanoparticles synthesis in recent years. The enhancement of the intensity of the hydrodynamic cavitation is always been an emerging field of research. Within this framework, we have proposed and investigated three distinct strategies to enhance the intensity of cavitation in a circular venturi, namely, (1) by introducing the surface roughness on the wall (2) single or multiple circular hurdles in the diverging section (3) By modifying the diverging section from planer to the trumpet shape. RANS (Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes) based numerical simulations are carried out the over wide range of conditions: (pressure ratio), (half divergent angle), (half convergent angle), and (throat length). An extensive numerical and experimental validation with the literature have been presented to ensure the reliability and accuracy of present work. Detailed results on velocity fields, local and average volume fraction, pressure loss coefficients, cavitation number, discharge coefficient and pressure distribution are reported as function of dimensionless parameters. Five designs of various combinations of surface roughness, circular hurdles, and trumpet diverging section have been compared. The effect of surface roughness on trumpet diverging wall has been observed to be more pronounced than the other designs. Trumpet diverging wall with surface roughness is found to be optimum for the practical applications.
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Nilanjan Dutta
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar 140001, India
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Prasad Kopparthi
- R&D and Scientific Services Division, TATA Steel Limited, Jamshedpur, 831007, India
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Asim Kumar Mukherjee
- R&D and Scientific Services Division, TATA Steel Limited, Jamshedpur, 831007, India
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Neelkanth Nirmalkar
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar 140001, India
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- Articles
- Type:
- artykuły w czasopismach
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WATER RESEARCH
no. 204,
ISSN: 0043-1354 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Bibliographic description:
- Dutta N., Kopparthi P., Mukherjee A. K., Nirmalkar N., Boczkaj G.: Novel strategies to enhance hydrodynamic cavitation in a circular venturi using RANS numerical simulations// WATER RESEARCH -Vol. 204, (2021), s.117559-
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117559
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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