Vortex-breakdown efficiency of planar regular grid structures—towards the development of design guidelines

Sirois, Julien, Sanjosé, Marlène, Sanchez, Fabian et Brailovski, Vladimir. 2024. « Vortex-breakdown efficiency of planar regular grid structures—towards the development of design guidelines ». Fluids, vol. 9, nº 2.

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The work presented here aims to provide design guidelines to create vortex-damping structures. A design of experiment was developed to investigate the individual and combined effects of the geometrical properties of planar regular grid structures, i.e., the wire diameter, the porosity, and the inter-grid spacing, on their vortex-breakdown performance. The simulations were carried out using a commercial unsteady RANS solver. The model relies on the Von Karman street effect to generate vortices in a pipe which are convected downstream, where they interact with an array of grids. The vortex-breakdown efficiency is characterized by the pressure drop, the residual turbulent kinetic energy, the flow homogeneity, and the size of the transmitted vortices. The wire diameter is shown to be an important design lever as it affects the level of distortion of the transmitted vortices. Increasing the number of grids augments the pressure loss, but their contribution to vortex breakdown is otherwise limited when the wire diameter is small. The influence of grid spacing strongly depends on the wire diameter and grid alignment. For instance, minimizing this gap reduces the pressure drop for the inline configurations, but increases the pressure drop for the offset configurations.

Type de document:	Article publié dans une revue, révisé par les pairs
Professeur:	Professeur Sanjosé, Marlène Brailovski, Vladimir
Affiliation:	Génie mécanique, Génie mécanique
Date de dépôt:	12 mars 2024 19:00
Dernière modification:	15 mars 2024 18:35
URI:	https://espace2.etsmtl.ca/id/eprint/28431

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