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June 9, 2017 03:27 |
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Originally Posted by medaouarwalid
(Post 652315)
I dont have any mesurements of the velocity in the inlet of the cone ( blow dryer) .
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Looking at the photo and thinking of a typical hair dryer, I think there are lot of things inside the blower that could create wakes in the flowfield. Therefore, I think that even if you include part of the end cone of the blower in your computational domain, you won't be able to impose a statistically representative quantity for velocity, pressure and turbulent quantities, on the "new" inlet boundary of your simulation.
Considering this, I would suggest to reduce your computational domain: the nozzle you're investigating has a cylindrical shape in the initial part and it seems that a steady flowfield is achieved in it, as long as your measurements are concerned (some diameter after the hair dryer-nozzle junction the exp. velocity is not chaning anymore). I suggest you to cut your computational domain and put the new inlet boundary in the same position where you experimentally observe that the flow velocity within the nozzle is not changin anymore, and then impose the same velocity on the computational boundary (3.15 m/s). I would assume that the wakes have disappeared/dissipated on the new inlet section, at least the bigger.
I agree that an experimental pressure would certainly help to better impose the boundary conditions on your computational domain. You have however to assume turbulent quantities on your inlet boundary, as prof. MFDenaro already wrote, and the best thing you can do to start is assume a fully developed turbulent profile. To verify the impact of this assumption on your CFD3D results, you can re-run your simulation with different inlet turbulent quantities and check how much the results will change (e.g. change turbulence intensity, etc. etc.).
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