Laminar Fully Developed Flow in Periodically Converging-Diverging Microtubes
Laminar Fully Developed Flow in Periodically Converging-Diverging Microtubes
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周期性会聚-发散微管中充分发展的层流流动
DOI:
10.1115/icnmm2008-62187
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发表时间:
2008
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
D. Sinton
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作者:
M. Bahrami;M. Akbari;D. Sinton
Laminar fully developed flow and pressure drop in linearly varying cross-sectional converging–diverging microtubes have been investigated in this work. These microtubes are formed from a series of converging–diverging modules. An analytical model is developed for frictional flow resistance assuming parabolic axial velocity profile in the diverging and converging sections. The flow resistance is found to be only a function of geometrical parameters. To validate the model, a numerical study is conducted for the Reynolds number ranging from 0.01 to 100, for various taper angles, from 2 to 15 degrees, and for maximum–minimum radius ratios ranging from 0.5 to 1. Comparisons between the model and the numerical results show that the proposed model predicts the axial velocity and the flow resistance accurately. As expected, the flow resistance is found to be effectively independent of the Reynolds number from the numerical results. Parametric study shows that the effect of radius ratio is more significant than th...