Analysis of Magnetic Take-Up Roll Employed in Amorphous Alloy Ribbon Production Line

A novel magnetic take-up roll used in amorphous alloy ribbon formation lines is introduced in this paper. The finite element method was used to calculate two different magnetic models for a selected amorphous ribbon. The simulation result showed that magnetic adhesion force can make the ribbon move toward and stay on the magnetic take-up roll. The tests indicated that the results measured complied with simulation ones. Moreover, the final design prototype test successfully satisfy the main objective of the project – to take up the ribbon – with a high success rate.     

Water-Circulating Aerator: Optimizing Structure and Predicting Water Flow Rate and Oxygen Transfer

Thermal stratification is a common phenomenon in deep lakes and reservoirs, which often results in water-quality deterioration, including such problems as hypolimnetic anoxia, the release of pollutants from sediments, and algal blooms. Hypolimnetic oxygenation and destratification are the two commonly used methods for resolving these water-quality problems. A new water-quality improvement device, the water-circulating aerator, was designed to destratify lakes and reservoirs, by circulation and oxygenation of upper and lower layers of water. The design of the structure of the water-circulating aerator is detailed. Three mathematical models were built to optimize this structure, estimate the rate of water flow in the aerator, and calculate the rate of oxygen transfer from air bubbles to water in the aerator. These models were verified by experiments. The water-circulating aerator system has been successfully applied in a stratified reservoir to increase dissolved oxygen to reduce the releasing of ammonia-nitrogen from sediments under anoxic conditions.     

Study on the transport of suspended sediment in an open channel flow with permeable spur dikes

The transport of suspended sediment in rivers with spur dikes is an important issue for bank protection and environmental management. Laboratory experiments were performed to study the characteristics of the flow and the transport of suspended sediment in an open channel with permeable dikes. Firstly, the essentials of these characteristics were studied by comparing results of flume experiments on permeable and impermeable dikes. The influence of the aspect ratio (d/l) of the interval between dikes (d) to the length of dikes (l) on these characteristics was then investigated. In these experiments, the properties of horizontal eddies, turbulence structures, and suspended sediment concentrations were studied. The results show that the development of large-scale horizontal eddies requires some distance in a shear layer for permeable dikes, although they are periodically generated from the first dike in the case of impermeable dikes. The basic structures of horizontal eddies are independent of the aspect ratio in the equilibrium region for permeable dikes. The suspended sediment concentrations for cases of permeable dikes gradually decrease between the several upstream dikes and they approach a uniform distribution in the downstream region, although those in the case of the impermeable dikes are relatively uniform in the downstream direction.     

Measurement of steam flow rates using a clamp-on ultrasonic flowmeter with various wetness fractions

Most of the heat in industrial plants is supplied by steam. To minimize energy waste, measuring the steam flow rates in existing pipes is important. Clamp-on ultrasonic flowmeters are used for this purpose, for which the sensors are attached to the pipe wall. However, flow conditions that can be used are limited because the signal-to-noise ratio of the ultrasonic signal in a steam flow is low. Furthermore, the steam wetness increases with heat losses, which may affect measurement results. Therefore, flow rate measurements in wet steam flows using clamp-on ultrasonic flowmeters have not been fully established. In this study, steam flow rates with various wetness fractions and system pressures were measured using a laboratory-made clamp-on ultrasonic flowmeter. The results show that flow rates in wet steam could be determined within a 10% error under general conditions in a steam piping system, although the conversion factor from line-average to area-average velocities was calibrated in superheated conditions, and the speed of sound in saturated conditions at each pressure was used. However, the error of the flow rates tended to increase with the wetness fraction and was biased toward positive values. The speed of sound and liquid volume fraction were evaluated at different wetness fractions. The flow rate error due to the change in sound speed was less than 1%, and 1.2% of the flow rates were overestimated owing to the liquid volume fraction. The velocity distribution in wet steam was considered different from that in the superheated steam owing to the existence of the liquid phase, and the change in velocity profile may lead to an overestimation of the steam flow rates in the wet steam condition.     

Analysis of blade structure impact on turbine flow sensor performance

The impeller blade structure is one of the important factors affecting the performance of the turbine flow sensor. However, the underlying fluid dynamics mechanism is still not fully understood. The DN10 turbine flow sensor's internal flow field was analyzed based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations to explain the influence mechanism of blade structure on its performance. The experiment proves that the simulation method is reliable. The structural parameter η, which characterizes the shape of the impeller blade, was defined, and four turbine flow sensor structures were studied. The results suggested that the value of η affects the stability of the impeller's fluid dynamics characteristics, the velocity distribution at the impeller inlet, and the acting position and time of the wake flow behind the upstream flow conditioner. Therefore, the structural parameter influents the performance of the turbine flow sensor. With the increase of η, the characteristic curve gradually moves down, the average meter factor decreases, and the linearity error increases.     

Experimental study to establish an evaluating method for the responsiveness of liquid flowmeters to transient flow rates

An aim of this research work is to establish an evaluation method concerning a responsiveness of flowmeters for a transient flow rate. To this end, reference flow metering systems for the transient flow are proposed in this paper. Because a behavior of the responsiveness depends on the type of flowmeter, evaluations using different parameters, such as response time to sudden rise and sudden fall in flow rate, response to the frequency and amplitude of flow pulsation, mean characteristic and so on are needed. To achieve a precise evaluation, two reference flow metering methods for transient flow rates are proposed in this paper. One is a high-response weighing method and the other is a velocity profile measurement method using the ultrasonic pulsed Doppler method (UPDM). Since the behaviors of the transient flow rate measured by both methods show good agreement, we conclude them to be useable as a reference flow metering system.     

渐开线齿轮传动润滑效应的理论分析

建立了渐开线直齿轮传动模型,通过对于中、重载两种不同的载荷进行50余组热弹流润滑数值计算,分析了润滑油黏度与齿面卷吸速度的乘积对齿轮传动接触疲劳寿命的影响。研究结果表明:在齿面卷吸速度固定的情况下,改变润滑油黏度,二次压力峰在中载和重载的工况下都是单调增大的;其X的位置也都单调减小,即向入口区方向移动;次表面剪应力最大值在中载时先减小,再增大,而重载时却单调减小;次表面剪应力最大值的X的位置中载时向出口方向移动,Z位置逐渐向轮齿的表层移动;当重载时X方向是逐渐向出口区移动的,在Z方向是恒定在轮齿固体内部的。     

Field Measurements of Mean Velocity Characteristics of a Large-Diameter Swirling Jet

Full-scale field acoustic Doppler velocimeter measurements of the radial, axial, and tangential flow components were undertaken in a large-diameter turbulent swirling jet generated by a raft-mounted axial flow-mixing propeller discharging through a draft tube during isothermal and stratified conditions. The results were compared with classical jet theory and showed significant differences in the zone of flow establishment though similar behavior in the zone where established flow was found. It was concluded that the efflux from the axial flow-mixing propeller could not be described adequately by conventional jet theory due to the jet size and swirling characteristics.     

影剧院舞台夏季不同送风方式的模拟及优化

通过运用FLUENT软件模拟夏季影剧院舞台上送上回形式下,三种不同送风方式下的舞台气流组织,通过对温度场、速度场的分布的比较,得出了最优送风方式。     

Multiple mapping conditioning of velocity in turbulent jet flames

Multiple mapping conditioning (MMC) has emerged as a new approach to model turbulent reacting flows. This study revises the standard MMC closure for velocity in turbulent jet flows from linearity in the reference space to linearity in the composition space. This modeling amendment ensures that the standard velocity model in conditional moment closure studies can now be used for MMC computation as well. A simplified model for the velocity-dependence of MMC drift coefficients is derived without loss of generality and is implemented for the revised velocity closure. Modeling results have been corroborated against the Direct Numerical Simulation database of a spatially evolving, planar turbulent jet flame. The revised model shows marked improvement over standard MMC closure in predicting velocity statistics close to the nozzle.