strainer in a flow duct
 

Hello to everyone,
I already saw something similar in the forum, but I think this could be an interesting question for a new topic anyway.
I should simulate, unfortunately very fast, some kind of strainer or sieve in a flow duct.
The modelling of such a sieve would just be a crazy thing (unless I have the possibility to use 20 millions nods and 20 months to meove the nodes in icem...).
Is there a possibility to give just the effect of this strainer, like an interface, a porous medium, a momentum source? And how accurate could be such a modelling strategy?
Any help and any suggestions in the discussion would be very appreciated.
Grüßi

Yes, a porous body or a momentum source term is the standard way of doing this sort of thing. If you know the resistance of the material well it is very accurate.

I am studying the topic .
I have very few information (only a foto) for the strainer and I have to set the conditions very carefully...

Is the tutorial with the catalytic converter a good reference?

Yes, the cat converter example is a good place to start.

But to do anything useful with your strainer you need pressure versus flowrate curves. If you do not have this you are just guessing. You can approximate the pressure versus flow rate curve from the geometry (assume the sieve is an oriface plate and use the resistance from that, or assume it is a bunch of cylinders in cross flow) but these approaches have significant error.

It all depends on how accurate you want to be and how important this seive is in the device.

I am going further with the simulation and I am slowly understanding the physics.
Unfortunately I have received from the constructor of this duct very few details and I have to search for some parameters.
Doyou have any idea where I can find suitable example?

If its a strainer is is usually a standard mesh size, perhaps you can find information about the mesh.

I don't know that much about your specific geometry but what I have done in the past is just model a single representative area of the strainer (one hole or a fraction of a hole using symmetric boundary conditions) and determine your pressure loss vs. flow velocity curve. I have found You can represent this curve pretty well using a true velocity porous membrane and inserting your volume porosity and a loss coefficient, which you can also make small simple model of before defining it in your larger model.

My problem is, I have only few gemetrical information about the mesh in the duct and no curve at all.
THe bst would be, just to see a similar case and use some suitable loss coefficient, just to get some simulation running. Then I can see if I can model the single hole.
I am searching for literature, but I am afraid I am searching for the wrong words.
Thx for your help.

If you do not know anything about the mesh then how are you expected to model it?

Surely you can get some basic information on it - wire diameter and spacing, open area, something like that. Even if you have a photograph of the mesh or have simply had a quick look at it you should be able to estimate those parameters. That can give you a starting point.

Hi glenn,
I have few data.
I am trying now to run a simulation with a sigle hole and using some translational periodicity or simmetric conditions.
I know what you mean with the accuracy of the modelling and the information about the geometry. This is the task that I received, I can't help about it.

What I meant, I can still run some simulation in order to get the pressure drop. But surely someone already modeled this case and has some numbers that I can use as validation for my modeling.
I am searching in my archives for the words Strainer duct and pressure loss but I get few answers.
Am I searching for th wrong words?

you could do an "orifice" calculation using your hole size, though I would trust my model results more than an orifice calc.

I am doing your model. Thank you again for your advice.
I am just trying to adapt some things. The value of the coefficient are pretty low, I am tring to understand if they are suitable.