Fluid Dynamic Loads Research Articles

Analysis of vibration response characteristics of composite pipeline based on finite element method

In order to ensure the good stability of the composite pipeline under fluid dynamic loads, finite element analysis method was applied to simulate and calculate the modal characteristics under dry and wet mode conditions. According to the working principle and structural characteristics of composite pipelines, the model was parameterized and simplified to improve computational efficiency and convergence. The modal testing platform is constructed, consisting of a combination of pipeline structure and pipeline support structure. The movement direction of the slider is limited by the guide rail used, allowing the horizontal section of the branch to move only along its own pipeline axis direction. The fluid structure coupling analysis technology was applied to obtain the vibration mode and spectral response results of the composite pipeline, which was verified through an experimental platform. The research results indicate that the natural frequency in wet mode was about 16 % lower than that in dry mode. In addition, it could be proven that the simulation scheme had good computational accuracy, with a maximum error of 9.2 %.

The Orenburg Radial-Concentric Structure at Great Depth: Experimental Modeling under Fluid Dynamic Loads and Comparative Analysis of Sandstone Samples from Oil Fields in Western Siberia

The Orenburg Radial-Concentric Structure at Great Depth: Experimental Modeling under Fluid Dynamic Loads and Comparative Analysis of Sandstone Samples from Oil Fields in Western Siberia

Analysis of fluid dynamic behavior and impact load on oblique water entry of a two-dimensional seaplane based on VOF method

Seaplane landing is a typical water entry impact phenomenon. However, our understanding on the development of jet flow and air cavity, and corresponding load characteristic is still limited. In this paper, the impact problem of oblique water entry of a two-dimensional seaplane is studied to clarify the relationship between theses complex flows and loads. A gas-liquid two-phase model is established to model these complex fluid flows, where the air-water interface is captured based on a VOF algorithm. The accuracy is validated by the published experimental data. Some hydrodynamic impact characteristics related to seaplane model under different oblique water entry postures, including air-water free surface and local impact pressure are discussed. Complicated flows (air cavity and jet flow impact) are the internal cause to some unusual load characteristics such as multiple pressure peaks, negative pressure, simultaneity of impact load on the airfoil, and great difference of load at different positions on the cabin. The evolution of jet flow and air cavity is further discussed through combing free surface and pressure distribution. Results clarified the mechanism of complex flows under the influence of bottom cabin and inclined postures, which will be helpful to further understand the impact phenomenon of seaplane landing.

Orenburg Radial-Concentric Structure at Great Depth: Experimental Modeling under Fluid Dynamic Loads and Comparative Analysis of Sandstone Samples from Oil Fields in Western Siberia

The study of the deep structure of the Orenburg radial-concentric structure in the basement of the Russian Platform based on seismotectonic and geomorphological data has been carried out. Interpretation of temporal regional seismic profiles crossing the structure was performed, identifying the main deep faults and measuring their dip angles. It was revealed that the radial-concentric structure is a large flower structure. Its structure involves the main multidirectional deep faults dipping at angles of \(\perp \)60°–85° and limiting horst or reverse fault zones in the basement. The hierarchy of faults structure has been established. Oil and gas fields are confined to the main deep dislocations of the Orenburg structure and represent flower structures of minor sizes. An experimental modeling of the formation of “flower” structures was performed based on the analysis of the results of studies using data from the acoustic emission activity of rocks and under the action of fluid dynamic loads performed at the “UIK-AE” unit (Institute of Geophysics, Ural Branch of RAS, Russia) on sandstone core samples from reservoir rocks of oil fields in Western Siberia. The developed model showed that the formation of flower structures can occur without horizontal shear due to lateral compression and deep pressure. With the help of the seismo-acoustic emission method, characteristic noise was recorded during the formation of cracks in core samples, sound attenuation before splitting, and then its sharp explosive increase from a break in the continuity of the rock. Analysis of the core of wells drilled within the Orenburg radial-concentric structure revealed signs of hydrothermal fluid discharge in the sedimentary cover rocks, such as wavy (or flat) layering, bizarre textures and intervals of breccias, shell-shaped inclusions, stillotite seams, fluid textures. It is concluded that the genesis of the Orenburg radial-concentric structure is associated with the impact of deep heat flows, fluids, high pressure and has a commonality with the explosive ring structures of shields and platforms.

Nature-Inspired Design and Advanced Multi-Computational Investigations on the Mission Profile of a Highly Manoeuvrable Unmanned Amphibious Vehicle for Ravage Removals in Various Oceanic Environments

Recent large-scale operations, including frequent maritime transportation and unauthorised as well as unlawful collisions of drainage wastes, have polluted the ocean’s ecology. Due to the ocean’s unsuitable ecology, the entire globe may experience drastic aberrant conditions, which will force illness onto all living things. Therefore, an advanced system is very necessary to remove the undesired waste from the ocean’s surface and interior. Through the use of progressive unmanned amphibious vehicles (UAV), this study provides a dynamic operational mode-based solution to damage removal. In order to successfully handle the heavy payloads of ravage collections when the UAV reveals centre of gravity concerns, a highly manoeuvrable-based design inspired by nature has been imposed. The ideal creatures to serve as the inspiration for this piece are tropical birds, which have a long tail for navigating tricky situations. The design initialization was carried out by focusing on the outer body of tropical birds. Following this, special calculations were conducted and the full design parameters of the UAV were established. This study proposes a unique mathematical formulation for the development of primary and secondary design parameters of an UAV. The proposed mission profile of this application is computationally tested with the aid of sophisticated computational methodologies after the modelling of this UAV. The computational methods that are required are one-way coupling-based hydro-structural interaction assessments and computational hydrodynamic analyses. Computing is used to determine the aerodynamic and hydrodynamic forces over the UAV, the lightweight materials to withstand high fluid dynamic loads, and the buoyancy forces to complete the UAV components. These computational methods have been used to produce a flexible and fine-tuned UAV design for targeted real-time applications.

Coupled Actuator Line and Finite Element Analysis Tool

Fluid-dynamic loading of many solid bodies can be simulated using geometry resolving computational fluid dynamics methods, where the body's shape is resolved in the mesh. In some cases though slender bodies, like ropes or cables, spars, turbine blades, foils and lattice structures would require prohibitively high cell counts, since the geometrical features to be resolve are much smaller than the overall domain. Such bodies are usually made up of generic cross sections like round, square or standardised technical profiles like the famous NACA digit series for which good parametrisations of reaction forces to incoming flow exist. Actuator line methods apply inflow dependent reaction forces to the fluid domain, thus allowing the computationally efficient simulation of slender bodies and have been used extensively, for example in wind and tidal turbine simulations. Beam elements representing slender bodies are standard building blocks in structural finite element models. Combining actuator line theory with a finite element beam model allows the efficient simulation of flexible structures under fluid loads, like turbine blades or nettings used in fish farms. This paper presents an implementation of such a coupled model in OpenFOAM based on the existing turbineFoam actuator line model. The underlying numerical method is detailed and first test cases are provided.

Molecular Engineering Super-Robust Dry/Wet Adhesive with Strong Interface Bonding and Excellent Mechanical Tolerance

Despite the fact that synthetic adhesives have achieved great progress, achieving robust dry/wet adhesion under harsh operating environments is still challenging. Herein, inspired from the extraordinary adhesion mechanism of nature mussel protein adhesive, the balanced design concept of co-adhesion and interfacial adhesion is proposed to prepare one kind of novel copolymer adhesive of [poly(dopamine methacrylamide-co-methoxethyl acrylate-co-adamantane-1-carboxylic acid 2-(2-methyl-acryloyloxy)-ethyl ester)] [p(DMA-co-MEA-co-AD)], named as super-robust adhesive (SRAD). The SRAD exhibits ultra-high interface bonding strengths in air (∼7.66 MPa) and underwater (∼2.78 MPa) against an iron substrate. Especially, a greatly tough and stable adhesion strength (∼2.11 MPa) can be achieved after immersing the bonded sample in water for half a year. Furthermore, the SRAD demonstrates surprising wet bonding robustness/tolerance even encountering harsh conditions such as fluid shearing, dynamic loading, and cyclic mechanical fretting. The great advantages of SRAD, such as strong interface bonding, stable wet adhesion underwater, and good mechanical tolerance, makes it demonstrate huge application potential in engineering sealants and underwater adhesion.

Modal Analysis of Tubing Considering the Effect of Fluid–Structure Interaction

When tubing is in a high-temperature and high-pressure environment, it will be affected by the impact of non-constant fluid and other dynamic loads, which will easily cause the tubing to vibrate or even resonate, affecting the integrity of the wellbore and safe production. In the structural modal analysis of the tubing, the coupling effect of the fluid and the tubing needs to be considered at the same time. In this paper, a single tubing is taken as an example to simulate and analyze the modal changes of the tubing under dry mode and wet mode respectively, and the effects of fluid solid coupling effect, inlet pressure, and ambient temperature on the modal of the tubing are discussed. After considering the fluid–structure interaction effect, the natural frequency of tubing decreases, but the displacement is slightly larger. The greater the pressure in the tubing, the greater the equivalent stress on the tubing body, so the natural frequency is lower. Furthermore, after considering the fluid–solid coupling effect, the pressure in the tubing is the true pulsating pressure of the fluid. The prestress applied to the tubing wall changes with time, and the pressures at different parts are different. At this time, the tubing is changed at different frequencies. Vibration is prone to occur, that is, the natural frequency is smaller than the dry mode. The higher the temperature, the lower the rigidity of the tubing and the faster the strength attenuation, so the natural frequency is lower, and tubing is more prone to vibration. Both the stress intensity and the elastic strain increase with the increase of temperature, so the displacement of the tubing also increases.

MULTI-FIELD COUPLING EFFECT AND SIMILARITY LAW OF FLOATING ICE BREAK BY VEHICLE LAUNCHED UNDERWATER

Fluid structure coupling effect and dynamic load characteristics are the important basis of the safety evaluation of the vehicle in the process of underwater launching and floating ice break. In this paper, the main control parameters which influence the dynamic load and the stress at the head of the vehicle, as well as the similarity law, are obtained by dimensional analysis. Based on the LS-DYNA fluid structure coupling method, the numerical simulations for underwater launched vehicle impacting with floating ice have been conducted, and the load characteristics of the vehicle under the conditions of different impact velocities, different ice thicknesses and different ice sizes are obtained. The simulated results show that, the higher the initial velocity of the vehicle is, the greater the distinction of the influence of different ice targets on the overload and the stress at the head of the vehicle is, which is mainly due to the different destruction of different ice targets under the strong water impact generated by the underwater motion of the vehicle in the early stage. For the infinite ice sheet, when its thickness is more than 3 times the vehicle diameter, the penetration into the ice appears stable at the later stage, the rigid body acceleration and the stress at the head of the vehicle are only related to the penetration velocity and the dynamic mechanical properties of the ice; for the thinner ice target, the higher the velocity of the vehicle is, the smaller the stress at its head is. This is because the early damage of the ice under the water impact generated by the higher speed motion of the vehicle is more serious, the ice layer is easy to crack and bulge, resulting in the smaller stress at the vehicle head. For the broken ice whose radial dimension is 6 times the vehicle diameter, when its thickness is also greater than 5 times the vehicle diameter, the influence on the vehicle motion is almost the same as that of the infinite ice sheet; when its thickness is less than 3 times the diameter of the vehicle, the ice size effect can be ignored only when the vehicle velocity is low. In addition, by comparing the influence of broken ice and infinite ice on the vehicle motion, it can be observed that, the thicker ice got less damage by the water impact at the early stage, thus the influence of broken ice and infinite ice are basically the same; while the thinner ice is seriously damaged by the water impact, resulting in little influence of broken ice and infinite ice on the vehicle motion; only for the ice targets with medium thickness, their damage degrees are related to the radial size under the condition of the higher vehicle velocity, for instance, when the initial vehicle velocity is 40 m/s, there is a great damage difference between the two kinds of ice targets with dimensionless thickness 3 at the early stage, which leads to a significant difference in the influence on the vehicle motion at the later stage.

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Structural Safety Assessment of Connection between Sloshing Tank and 6-DOF Platform Using Co-Simulation of Fluid and Multi-Flexible-Body Dynamics

Prediction of sloshing loads, which is one of the most important issues in the design of LNG carriers, has usually been carried out by experiments. When designing a 6-DOF platform equipment used for sloshing experiments, it should target a system containing a fluid, not a solid, thereby making it difficult to predict precisely the dynamic load due to the changes of a center of mass according to the tank’s movement. In the present study, two-way co-simulation technology between DualSPHysics and RecurDyn has been developed to analyze the mechanical behavior in multi-body system coupled with fluid motion; in which DualSPHysics is an open-source code based on particle method for fluid analysis and RecurDyn a commercial software for multi-flexible-body dynamics (MFBD). The developed technology was applied to the sloshing problem inside a tank connected to an upper plate on a 6-DOF platform. The simulation results were verified through comparison with the experiments conducted for this study independently, such as snapshots of flow motion, pressure on the cargo hold, and force applied to the tank-platform connection. Finally, to investigate the effects of fluid dynamic load on structural safety assessment, a two-way co-simulation between fluid-MFBD analysis was performed for two cases filling partially with fluid and solid. As a result, it was concluded that the sloshing experiment system used in this study was quite safe, and the feasibility of using the present co-simulation technology for structural safety assessment was confirmed.

Day-to-day dynamic traffic assignment with imperfect information, bounded rationality and information sharing

This paper presents a doubly dynamic day-to-day (DTD) traffic assignment model with simultaneous route-and-departure-time (SRDT) choices while incorporating incomplete and imperfect information as well as bounded rationality. Two SRDT choice models are proposed to incorporate imperfect travel information: One based on multinomial Logit (MNL) model and the other on sequential, mixed multinomial/nested Logit model. These two variants, serving as base models, are further extended with two features: bounded rationality (BR) and information sharing. BR is considered by incorporating the indifference band into the random utility component of the MNL model, forming a BR-based DTD stochastic model. A macroscopic model of travel information sharing is integrated into the DTD dynamics to account for the impact of incomplete information on travelers’ SRDT choices. These DTD choice models are combined with within-day dynamics following the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) fluid dynamic network loading model. Simulations on large-scale networks (Anaheim) illustrate the interactions between users’ adaptive decision making and network conditions (including local disruption) with different levels of information availability and user behavior. Our findings highlight the need for modeling network transient and disequilibriated states, which are often overlooked in equilibrium-constrained network design and optimization. The MATLAB package and computational examples are available at https://github.com/DrKeHan/DTD.

Evaluation of Thermal Stratification Inside a New Model of Spherical Water Storage Tank Using a Computational Fluid Dynamics 6 Degrees of Freedom Solver

Abstract In this work, a computational analysis of a spherical solar hot water storage tank during the discharging process is carried out by using the commercial code ansys-fluent.15. The study investigates a new type of spherical heat storage tank. A hinged baffle is fixed at the tank vertical axis to increase the discharge flow rate without a thermocline layer. The dynamic mesh LAYERING technique is used to update the computational domain during the movement of the hinged baffle. The passive pitching of the submerged baffle is due to the fluid-dynamic loads. This model limits the mixture between hot and cold water regardless of the inlet flow rate. A comparative study between tanks with typical diffusers and the hinged baffle model is considered. The comparison of the computational fluid dynamics results with available experimental data showed a good agreement. Examinations of the temperature contours indicate that for the typical models, the interaction between the incoming cold water and the stored hot water gives rise to a thick thermocline layer where its temperature and thickness are related to the intensity of the mixing process. The suggested model shows high stratification efficiency along the discharging process.

On the thermal stratification inside a spherical water storage tank during dynamic mode

The current study investigates a new model of spherical heat storage tank. A passively moving plate is fixed at the tank axis to increase the discharge flow rate without affecting the tank stratification. The dynamic mesh Layring technique is used to update the computational domain during the plate movement. The passive pitching of the submerged plate is due to the fluid-dynamic loads that acting on the plate during the discharging process. This mechanism makes it possible to prevent the mixture between hot and cold water regardless to the inlet flow rate. The present model is a single spherical tank used to achieve both energy storage and delivery. Firstly, a comparative study between tanks with typical diffusers and the new moving plate model is provided. Secondly, the effect of the hinged baffle material on the tank thermal behavior is investigated. The comparison of the computational results with the available experimental data showed a good agreement. The examination of the vortices interaction and the accompanying temperature contours indicate that the suggested tank model has a height stratification efficiency while the other models are affected by thermal gradient and the operating mode.

Basic research of the consideration of additive manufactured lattice structures under thermoand fluid dynamic loads

This scientific research deals with lattice structures manufactured with laser powder bed fusion. Laser powder bed fusion is part of additive manufacturing. The so called layered construction is an increasingly used innovative manufacturing process that can be used to realize new design possibilities. Lightweight structures or bionic structures play a key role here. The focus of this work is on periodic lattice structures. In addition to saving resources and reducing the weight of components, lattice structures have particularly pronounced mechanical properties. However, little is known about their thermo- and fluid-dynamic properties. This work describes the first influencing factors of lattice structures ina thermo- and fluid-dynamic context using a case study. The aim of this paper is to evaluate important design and simulation criteria of lattice structures. Different lattice structures are considered, whose strut geometry is varied. The case study is carried out using a heat exchanger. While classical heat exchangers have lamellar structures, the substitution of these by lattice structures is evaluated. Thiswork represents a first consideration of the most important parameters and gives an overview of the most important core points.

Three-dimensional flow and load characteristics of flexible revolving wings

The flow field and fluid-dynamic loads of revolving low-aspect-ratio chordwise-flexible wings are studied experimentally at a Reynolds number of 10,000. The investigation involves phase-locked tomographic particle image velocimetry (PIV) complemented with force measurements. The pressure fields are reconstructed from the three-dimensional velocity fields in a complete volume around the wing. For decreasing flexural stiffness, the coherence of this vortex system and spanwise transport of vorticity along the axis of the leading edge vortex (LEV) increase, which contribute to the stability and retention of the LEV. As the LEV low-pressure region becomes smaller with increasing flexibility, the total force on the wing is reduced, while it is tilted towards the lift direction due to the wing deformation. As a result, the drag is significantly suppressed, while the lift remains relatively high. Consequently, the lift-to-drag ratio increases with increasing flexibility and correlates well with the geometric angle of attack. While the sectional lift along the full span is comparable for the different wings, the sectional drag is significantly reduced at the outboard wing for increasing flexibility. The centroids of lift and drag are located at approximately 70% of the span for all wings throughout the complete revolving motion. Finally, the process of vortex breakdown is found to be related to the formation of a positive spanwise pressure gradient.

Numerical study of the fluid-dynamic loading on pipes conveying fluid with a laminar velocity profile

The paper deals with the fluid-dynamic forces of laminar fluid flow in long vibrating pipes as well as in long curved pipes at rest. It focuses on the contribution of the fluid-dynamic force related to the centrifugal acceleration. The study is based on the results of a CFD numerical model of an incompressible laminar fluid flow in the pipe, which is deflected in a bending, beam-type mode. The results are presented in terms of the centrifugal correction factor, which is defined as the ratio between the actual centrifugal-related term of the observed fluid-dynamic force and the solution of the one-dimensional model. The estimated values of the respective correction factor are presented for a range of vibration frequencies, lengths of the pipe and amplitudes of the pipe deflection. The results show that all the listed parameters affect the centrifugal correction factor. The resulting values are also compared and assessed with respect to some accessible analytical solutions. The influence of the predicted values of the centrifugal correction factor on the onset of static and dynamic instabilities of pipes conveying fluid is also discussed.

Fluid–structure interaction of downwind sails: a new computational method

The spreading of high computational resources at very low costs led, over the years, to develop new numerical approaches to simulate the fluid surrounding a sail and to investigate the fluid–structure interaction. Most methods have concentrated on upwind sails, due to the difficulty of implementing downwind sailing configurations that present, usually, the problem of massive flow separation and large displacements of the sail under wind load. For these reasons, the problem of simulating the fluid–structure interaction (FSI) on downwind sails is still subject of intensive investigation. In this paper, a new weak coupled procedure between a RANS solver and a FEM one has been implemented to study the FSI problem in downwind sailing configurations. The proposed approach is based on the progressive increasing of the wind velocity until reaching the design speed. In this way, the structural load is also applied progressively, therefore, overcoming typical convergence difficulties due to the non-linearity of the problem. Simulations have been performed on an all-purpose fractional gennaker. The new proposed method has been also compared with a classic weak FSI approach. Comparable results have been obtained in terms of flying shape of the gennaker and fluid-dynamic loads. The most significant characteristic of the proposed procedure is the easiness to find a solution in a very robust way without convergence problem, and also the capability to reduce the simulation time with regard to the computational cost.

An efficient finite differences method for the computation of compressible, subsonic, unsteady flows past airfoils and panels

A finite differences scheme is proposed in this work to compute in the time domain the compressible, subsonic, unsteady flow past an aerodynamic airfoil using the linearized potential theory. It improves and extends the original method proposed in this journal by Hariharan, Ping and Scott [1] by considering: (i) a non-uniform mesh, (ii) an implicit time integration algorithm, (iii) a vectorized implementation and (iv) the coupled airfoil dynamics and fluid dynamic loads. First, we have formulated the method for cases in which the airfoil motion is given. The scheme has been tested on well known problems in unsteady aerodynamics —such as the response to a sudden change of the angle of attack and to a harmonic motion of the airfoil— and has been proved to be more accurate and efficient than other finite differences and vortex-lattice methods found in the literature. Secondly, we have coupled our method to the equations governing the airfoil dynamics in order to numerically solve problems where the airfoil motion is unknown a priori as happens, for example, in the cases of the flutter and the divergence of a typical section of a wing or of a flexible panel. Apparently, this is the first self-consistent and easy-to-implement numerical analysis in the time domain of the compressible, linearized coupled dynamics of the (generally flexible) airfoil–fluid system carried out in the literature. The results for the particular case of a rigid airfoil show excellent agreement with those reported by other authors, whereas those obtained for the case of a cantilevered flexible airfoil in compressible flow seem to be original or, at least, not well-known.

The pressure distribution on the rectangular and trapezoidal storage tanks' perimeters due to liquid sloshing phenomenon

Sloshing phenomenon is a complicated free surface flow problem that increases the dynamic pressure on the sidewalls and the bottom of the storage tanks. When the storage tanks are partially filled, it is essential to be able to evaluate the fluid dynamic loads on the tank's perimeter. In this paper, a numerical code was developed to determine the pressure distribution on the rectangular and trapezoidal storage tanks' perimeters due to liquid sloshing phenomenon. Assuming the fluid to be inviscid, the Laplace equation and the nonlinear free surface boundary conditions were solved using coupled boundary element – finite element method. The code performance for sloshing modeling was validated using Nakayama and Washizu's results. Finally, this code was used for partially filled rectangular and trapezoidal storage tanks and free surface displacement, pressure distribution and horizontal and vertical forces exerted on the tanks' perimeters due to liquid sloshing phenomenon were estimated and discussed.