Fluid inside a crack
Hello, I'm a newbie in CFD. Could someone explain me how to model a fluid inside a pipe with cracks in the pipe wall? Do I have to create the cracks in geometry and mesh the cracks one by one or there are some techniques that can be used in this case?
Thanks a lot :D |
What are you trying to model? What do the cracks do? What happens in the cracks? What are you hoping to learn by modelling this?
There are many different ways of approaching this depending on what you are trying to model. |
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Can you post an image of what it looks like? Do the cracks contribute to the heat transfer? If so, how?
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The blue part is the outer wall, The yellow part is the inner wall. The inner wall has some cracks (not modeled in the geometry). And hot fluid is flowing from the front side to the back side. For the second question I don't know, that's why I want to do the analysis with CFD. As long as i know that the fluid might go into the cracks and contribute to the heat transfer. Then, back to the question. Do I have to draw the cracks in the geometry? or are there some techniques that can be used to represent the fluid inside the cracks? Thank you :D:D:D |
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Based on what I guess could be happening in a device like this I would suspect the cracks are not significant and therefore can be ignored. But I still have little idea of what you are doing and why you think the cracks might be important, so that is nothing more than a guess. |
Oooohh, thank you very much!
By the way, would you like to explain or just give me some references to read about the approaches for modelling fluid inside a crack? :D Sent from my BV6000 using CFD Online Forum mobile app |
There are no specific methods for modelling flow in a crack. It is the same as any flow - you establish the important physics and choose a model appropriate for the physics.
Let me help you. Are the cracks blind or do they go through? How big are they? What flow do you expect to get through them? |
Well, the cracks are blind. But I don't know the exact dimensions. I only know the depth is same with the thickness of the inner wall.
Sorry for incomplete information. Because my lecturer just challenged me to model a heat transfer from a fluid to the outer wall, with some cracks at the inner wall, and he said that the cracks dimension is up to me. But this is the real problem, I don't know how big the cracks that i should use. *sorry for the bad english Sent from my BV6000 using CFD Online Forum mobile app |
If the cracks are blind then the air will be stationary. Stationary air is a good insulator. And I presume the cracks are small relative to the total volume - so this means the total heat transfer will be determined by the overall heat conduction through the steel and concrete. The cracks will not significantly contribute to heat transfer.
So just do a model of the steel, concrete and air with no cracks. Even better - You can reduce this to a 1D heat transfer model and use analytical heat transfer to solve it. Then you can solve the heat transfer by hand with no need for CFD. This is far easier and is likely to be more accurate. |
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