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NUMERICAL MODELING OF TRANSIENT THERMAL MIXING

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International Journal of Latest Research in Science and Technology Vol.3 Issue 2, pp 80-89,Year 2014

NUMERICAL MODELING OF TRANSIENT THERMAL MIXING

Murthy Lakshmiraju, Jie Cui

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Received : 26 April 2014; Accepted : 28 April 2014 ; Published : 30 April 2014

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In this paper, transient thermal mixing induced by a sudden transverse injection of a fluid into a main flow of different temperature was studied using the Reynolds Stress Model in the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software Fluent 6.4. The results obtained were validated with the existing experimental data. It was shown that the flow and temperature fields near the injection point were highly complicated and significant temperature fluctuations were observed in the mixing region. The results indicate that the mixing process depends on the momentum ratio of the main flow to the injection flow.

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Numerical Simulation, Transient thermal mixing, Sudden injection, Turbulence, Reynolds Stress Model

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Murthy Lakshmiraju, Jie Cui , " Numerical Modeling Of Transient Thermal Mixing ", International Journal of Latest Research in Science and Technology . Vol. 3, Issue 2, pp 80-89 , 2014

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