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dc.contributor.author | Zadrazil, I. | |
dc.contributor.author | Markides, Christos N. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-04-23T09:08:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-04-23T09:08:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.description.abstract | Paper presented to the 10th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Florida, 14-16 July 2014. | en_ZA |
dc.description.abstract | Polymer induced drag reduction in turbulent pipe flow was investigated using a non-intrusive laser based diagnostic technique, namely Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). The drag reduction was measured in a pressure-driven flow facility, in a horizontal pipe of inner diameter 25.3 mm at Reynolds numbers ranging from 35 000 to 210 000. Three high-molecular-weight polymers (polyethylene oxide 2×106 – 8×106 Da) at concentrations in the range of 5 – 250 wppm were used. The results, obtained from the PIV measurements, show that the drag reduction scales with the magnitude of the normalized streamwise and spanwise rms velocity fluctuations in the flow. This scaling seems to universal, and is independent of the Reynolds number and in some cases also independent of the distance from the wall where the velocity fluctuations are considered. Furthermore, the instantaneous PIV observations indicate that as the level of drag reduction increases, the flow in the pipe is separated into a low-momentum flow region near the pipe wall and a high-momentum flow region in the turbulent core. Based on these findings a new mechanism of polymeric drag reduction is proposed in this paper. | en_ZA |
dc.description.librarian | cf2015 | en_ZA |
dc.format.medium | en_ZA | |
dc.identifier.citation | Zadrazil, I, Markides, CN 2014, 'A mechanism of polymer induced drag reduction in turbulent pipe flow', Paper presented to the 10th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Florida, 14-16 July 2014. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.isbn | 97817759206873 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44533 | |
dc.publisher | International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics | en_ZA |
dc.rights | © 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Turbulent pipe flow | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Polymer induced drag reduction | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Particle image velocimetry | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Drag reduction | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Velocity fluctuations | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Flow regions | en_ZA |
dc.title | A mechanism of polymer induced drag reduction in turbulent pipe flow | en_ZA |
dc.type | Presentation | en_ZA |