FED Newsletter - Spring 2013 - ASME.org community

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Spring 2013 Newsletter
Newsletter Editor
Ramin Rahmani
In this Issue
Chair’s Message
Report on ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering
FED Technical Committee Reports
Fluid Applications and Systems Technical Committee
Micro- and Nano-Scale Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee
Multiphase Flow Technical Committee
Computational Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee
Fluid Measurement and Instrumentation Technical Committee
Fluid Mechanics Technical Committee
FED Awards
Honors and Awards
Fluids Engineering Awards
Fluids Machinery Design Award
Robert T. Knapp Award
Lewis F. Moody Award
S. Gopalakrishnan—Flowserve Pump Technology Award
Freeman Scholar Awards
Technical Articles
Furnace Wall Temperature Investigation
Simulation of Heat Transfer in Low-Re Turbulent Flows in Corrugated Pipes
IMECE 2012 Track 7 (Fluids and Heat Transfer)
2013 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting
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Chair’s Message
Jinkook Lee, Ph.D.
Dear Colleagues,
It is my great pleasure to report to you another exciting year for the Fluids
Engineering Division (FED). This past Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting,
HTFNMM2012, was held in Puerto Rico, July 8 – 12, 2012, jointly with the
Summer Heat Transfer Conference (SHTC) and the 10th International
Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels (ICNMM).
This joint conference was hosted by two ASME Divisions, chaired by Dr. Jinkook Lee of Fluids
Engineering Division and co-chaired by Dr. Roy Hogan of Heat Transfer Division, and Prof. Sushanta
Mitra chaired ICNMM. The co-location of these conferences and the beautiful location had attracted
considerable interest, in spite of an international economic downturn. The conference program consisted
of more than 675 technical presentations; with participation of 2232 authors from 47 countries.
Additionally there were nine Plenary Lectures and three distinguished speakers from each of the Fluids
Engineering Division, Heat Transfer Division, and ICNMM.
The FEDSM Plenary Speakers were: Prof. Greta Tryggvason, Fluids Engineering Award recipient,
University of Notre Dame; Prof. Pratap Vanka, Freeman Scholar Award recipient, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign; Dr. William Morgan, 75th anniversary speaker for the Multi-Phase Flow Technical
Committee and former head of the Hydromechanics Directorate at the US Navy David Taylor Model
Basin as well as former chair of FED. The next Summer Conference (FEDSM2013) will be held at Lake
Tahoe, Incline Village, Nevada on July 7-11, 2013. Prof. Francine Battaglia is the Conference Chair and
Dr. Bahram Khalighi is the Technical Program Chair.
The EC has developed and approved Graduate Student Steering Committee (GSSC) to expand student
author promotion to the annual summer meetings only for full time masters or PhD ASME member
students. The GSSC is chaired by Prof. Javid Bayandor with Vice-Chair (open), EC representative, Prof.
Keith Walters, and H&A representative, Prof. Khaled Hammad. The visions of GSSC are to reward
quality graduate work in the area of fluids engineering, improve student participation at FEDSM, provide
incentives for students to join technical committees (TCs), improve student awareness to lead FED
ambassador programs in their respective institutions, and promote students to continue to work with TCs
and contribute to the professional activities of FED after graduation as young members. It was decided
initially up to 10 awards totaling of $10,000 to the 10 best papers and other quality papers will be
provided with recognitions.
The FED had a good presence at IMECE 2012 in Houston, Texas on November 9-15, 2012. Prof.
Francine Battaglia was our representative to IMECE2012 as the co-organizer of Track 7, Fluids and Heat
Transfer. Track 7 contained total of 29 topics and 11 topics were sponsored by FED including 220
presentations and the Young Engineers Paper Contest chaired by Prof. Terry Beck selected four finalists.
For the first time, Town Hall Meeting was organized and executed by Executive Committee to promote
better communication with FED members and improve efficiency of time management with 6 FED
Technical Committees. It was successful and will be implemented in the future meetings. Next IMECE
will be held in San Diego, CA on November 15-21, 2013. Dr. Bahram Khalighi will be the organizer of
the Track 8, Fluids Engineering Systems & Technologies which has 12 topics.
FED participated in the Leadership Training Conference 2013 (LTC13) and the Congress of Divisions
(COD) in St. Louis on February 28 - March 3, 2013. The Division was represented by Prof. Francine
Battaglia, Prof. Keith Walters, Dr. David Halt, and Dr. Bahram Khalighi, members of the FED Executive
Committee.
I am grateful to the technical committee chairs and administrative committee chairs that are providing
excellent leadership for the Division. This year’s technical committee chairs are Dr. Kamran Siddiqui
(Fluid Mechanics), Mr. Wayne Strasser (Fluids Applications and Systems), Dr. Hui Hu (Fluid
Measurements and Instrumentation), Dr. Raymond Gordnier (Computational Fluid Dynamics), Dr.
Timothy O’Hern (Multiphase Flow), Dr. Prashanta Dutta (Micro and Nano Fluid Dynamics). Dr. Khaled
Hammad is the chair of Honors and Awards committee, Dr. David Stock is the chair of the Freeman
Scholar Standing Committee, Dr. Malcolm Andrew is the Technical Editor of the Journal of Fluids
Engineering, and Dr. Ramin Rahmani is serving as the FED Newsletter editor.
Finally, the success of FED is dependent on a highly dedicated staff at ASME Headquarters. Leading the
list is Erin Dolan, Technical Unit Program Manager, Jacinta McComie-Cates, Administrator, and Stacey
Cooper, Nhora Cortes-Comerer, and Angela Mendez, Publications for their continued support of the
Division.
We invite and welcome all members including student members to become engaged in the FED
activities. More on the Fluids Engineering Division and past newsletters are located on the Division
website at: http://divisions.asme.org/FED/. Once again, I thank you very much for your interest and
continuous support.
Best regards,
Jinkook Lee, Ph.D.
Executive Committee Chair, Fluids Engineering Division
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Report on ASME Journal of
Fluids Engineering
Malcolm Andrews
The year of 2012 was a busy year for the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering
(JFE), and so I am pleased to write this report about our progress, and upcoming
activities in 2013.
For 2012 I am pleased to report that the impact factor for the JFE increased from 0.44 to 0.747. I
attribute the increase to a variety of factors that include more accurate citations, and excellent work from
past and present Technical Editors and Associate Editors. It is important that the journal be cited
correctly, in particular, the journal cite must read “ASME J. Fluids Eng.” for Thompson Reuter to
properly count the cite. If an incorrect cite is given, then the author and the journal receive a lower cite
count. The editorial office and the JFE Associate Editors are sensitive to the issue, and please do not
hesitate to contact the editorial office at JFE.EditorialOffice@gmail.com if you have any questions.
During 2012 the Journal had a total of 633 submissions (up about 20% from 2011), of which about 500
were assigned to Associate Editors after a preliminary review. Of that 500 some 122 have been accepted,
122 rejected, 139 withdrawn, and 98 are in progress. These statistics compare well with
2011, and indicate that we are on-track to accept about 25% of papers submitted in 2012.
In 2013 we are working with the ASME to produce a quarterly newsletter from the JFE to all authors,
and reviewers, that reports JFE activities, upcoming conferences, most highly cited recent (last 2 years)
papers, and perhaps a “focus” technical section. This is intended to help center readers on the ASME,
and provide deadline prompts. The provisional title for the newsletter is “The Flow,” and I look forward
to the first issue and any feedback/suggestions from the membership.
During 2012 we have had a couple of Associate Editors finish their terms. Paul Durbin (2009-2012) and
Rajat Mittal (2009-2012) both finished their second term in 2012. In addition we had Mark Stremler
(2009-2012) complete working as an Associate Editor for one term. Most recently Ismial Celik
(2010-2013) and Neelesh A. Patankar (2012-2013) completed their terms in March of 2013. We will miss
working with each of these individuals. Individually they brought specialized expertise from their field.
Their years of experience and wisdom definitely enhanced the performance of the journal while they were
working as part of the Journal of Fluids Engineering team.
We also had a number of Guest Editors, Deborah Pence, Shizhi Qian, David Sinton, David Stock,
Shushanta Mitra, Krishnan Manesh and Sharath Girimaji assist us with Special Editions during 2012.
We appreciate their assistance with our Special Edition papers, without them we couldn’t have produced
the Special Issues.
Joining us in March of 2013 was Dr. Shizhi Qian from Old Dominion University. In addition to our new
Associate Editor, we are also excited to have Drs. Elias Balaras, Stuart Dalziel, Samuel Paolucci, Oleg
Schilling, Shatoshi Watanabe, Robin Williams and David Youngs also joining the team this year working
as Guest Editors to assist with additional Special Editions that are to be published during 2013.
As with all fluid systems, the Journal is committed to increase submission, quality, and response to
authors. To this end we continue to use a policy of Editor “pre-screening” papers when they are first
submitted to give quick feedback about manuscripts that are obviously deficient. Such deficiencies
typically include: poor English; formatting as a conference publication rather than for the Journal
(https://journaltool. asme.org/Help/AuthorHelp/WebHelp/JournalsHelp.htm); “work-in-progress”
rather than completed; “observational” conclusions rather than careful analysis and discussion; and, use
of commercial software to create a “report” rather than an archival set of results of value/use to the JFE
readership. To help authors with the criteria for use of commercial software the JFE published an article
(Andrews,M., “Guidelines for Use of Commercial Software and Diagnostics in Articles for the Journal of
Fluids Engineering,” ASME J Fluids Eng., vol. 133, iss. 1, pp010201-010202.), and I strongly encourage
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authors to review that article for helpful guidance and to pay attention to the ASME requirement on
reporting numerical uncertainty (Celik, I.B., Ghia, U., Roache, P.J., Freitas, C.J., Coleman, H., et al,
“Procedure for Estimation and Reporting of Uncertainty Due to Discretization in CFD Applications,”
ASME J Fluids Eng., vol. 130, iss. 7, pp0780011-0780014.). Associate Editors are also encouraged to do
their own prescreen, with more technical depth, prior to sending to reviewers, and to let authors (or the
editorial office) know of any deficiencies that might significantly impact the likelihood of a successful
review. The spirit of these pre-screenings is provide faster feedback to authors, and provide better quality
papers for reviewers to consider (our reviewers are some of our future authors).
We also encourage authors, whose conference papers have been ranked “journal quality”, to consider
extending their paper and submitting to the JFE (after formatting to the Journal requirement). It is my
experience that most conference papers report “work-in-progress”, and typically need additional results
before they become of archival value. So the submission of a conference paper straight to the Journal
(after the conference) is likely to be unsuccessful under a pre-screen or review. However, closer coupling
of conferences to the Journal prove beneficial to both. One last significant change concerns excess page
charges, these charges are not currently being assessed, but the (substantial) color print charges will
remain. Thus, the previous limit of 9 journal pages is not currently in effect, but authors should be careful
of excessively long papers where readers might lose interest.
I close by thanking my editorial board of Associate Editors, and the editorial office, for all their hard
work. Please feel free to contact the editorial office at JFE.EditorialOffice@gmail.com if you have any
questions. If you see me at a conference please do not hesitate to visit.
Best regards,
Malcolm Andrews
Technical Editor
Fluid Mechanics
Technical Committees
Fluid Applications and
Systems Technical
Committee
Wayne Strasser, Chair and Judith
Bamberger, Vice-Chair
Fluids Applications and Systems Technical Committee’s (FASTC) mission is to promote the
advancement and dissemination of fluids engineering research and technology in several wide-ranging
single- and multi-disciplinary topic areas. These include such traditional disciplines as fluid power
systems, turbomachinery, automotive flows, and industrial fluid mechanics, and can include less
traditional topics such as environmental engineering, geophysical flows, extra-terrestrial physics, chemical
processing, alternative energy systems, fluid vibrations and acoustics. The primary function of the
committee is to coordinate and organize research symposia at two major venues for fluids engineering—
the annual ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting (FEDSM) and the ASME International
Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE)—as well as other FED sponsored meetings
and events. The committee meets at these events, and researchers and engineers from academia, industry
and government are encouraged to exchange information on these and other topics through their
participation in FASTC.
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We will sponsor two recurring symposia at the Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting in Incline Village,
Nevada, July 7-11, 2013:
• 25th Symposium on Fluid Machinery (lead: Kwang-Yong Kim) and the
• 20th Symposium on Industrial and Environmental Applications in Fluid Mechanics (lead:
Wayne Strasser).
In addition, FASTC will co-sponsor the
• Symposium on Issues and Perspectives in Automotive Flows (lead: Bahram Khalighi), and
• 14th International Symposium on Advances in Numerical Modeling for Turbomachinery Flow
Optimization (lead: Yu-Tai Lee).
FASTC sponsors symposia as a part of Fluids Engineering Systems & Technologies Topic Area at the
2013 IMECE at San Diego, California, November 15-21, 2013 will include:
• 22nd Symposium on Industrial Flows (lead: Wayne Strasser); and
• Co-sponsors the Symposium on Wind Turbines Aero and Controls (lead: Jai Kadambi).
We were pleased to welcome new members at the FASTC meetings at FEDSM and IMECE in 2013. We
encourage all interested individuals from academia and industry to participate in the FASTC activities and
especially to attend our symposia and technical committee meetings. If you are interested in volunteering
with the committee, or if you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact the Chair,
Wayne Strasser at Eastman Chemical Company (strasser@eastman.com) or the Vice Chair, Judith Ann
Bamberger at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Judith.Bamberger@pnnl.gov).
Micro- and Nano-Scale
Fluid Dynamics
Technical Committee
David Sinton, Chair and Sushanta
Mitra, Vice-Chair
It was another great year for micro- and nano-scale fluid dynamics at the IMECE.
This year the
micro/nano fluid dynamics sessions had a total of 57 talks with 33 papers/talks presented in Track 7-33
and 24 papers/talks presented in Track 10-11. The sessions were well attended and there was excellent
discussion following the talks. This year the symposium was also able to attract a number of papers/talks
outside of USA. The 2012 Microfluidics forum was organized by with help from Jiang Zhe of University
of Akron, and Chang-Hwan Choi of Stevens Institute of Technology, Iskander Akhatov of North
Dakota State University. Iskander Akhatov is taking the lead for 2013, with help from Nazmul Islam
Engineering from The University of Texas at Brownsville, and Shaurya Prakash from The Ohio State
University. Jiang is assisting Iskander, Nazmul and Shaurya with the online review system.
Invited talks are an important part of the IMECE meeting, and this past year the Forum attracted
outstanding researchers John T. McDevitt from Rice University and Prof. H. Henning Winter, NSF
Program Director for Fluid Dynamics to the event. John T. McDevitt is a world-leading researcher and a
pioneer in the development of “programmable bio-nano-chip" technologies, and he gave a talk on
“Programmable Nano-Bio-Chip Sensors: Bridging The Gaps In Healthcare”. Dr. H. Henning Winter is
an established expert in fluid dynamics. Dr. Winter gave a talk on “Can A Rheological Experiment
Distinguish Between A Gel And A Soft Glass?” Both researchers gave an interesting and engaging talk
and participated in discussions and networking. These speakers were brought in by the keynote
committee of Nazmul Islam, Shaurya Prakash, and Prashanta Dutta. This coming years’ invited talks will
be organized by Drs. Cullen Buie, Michael Schertzer, and Prashanta Dutta.
The Microfluidics social event was scheduled the same time as the FED Division Reception meeting, in
the Hilton Americas Hotel. The social was well attended by students, faculty, and engineers from
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industry and was a great chance for attendees to meet and network in a relaxed setting. As the response
was positive, the committee will keep this function to future events.
The Microfluidics forum also an internal Best Student Presentation Award. This year Ali Hashmi, of Dr.
Jie Xu’s group at Washington State University won the award with his outstanding presentation. To
select the best presentations and papers, feedback from session chairs was collected and compiled by the
internal awards committee.
The Micro/Nano Society-wide Poster Forum was also a success this year and attended by many
Microfluidics Forum participants. This forum, organized by Daniel Attinger, has become an important
part of the conference experience for the Micro/Nano community. The Micro nano fluid dynamics
technical committee met on November 13, 2012 (Tuesday), and approved the bylaws for this technical
committee along with many other routine activities such as formation of subcommittees for the
upcoming year. The technical committee also elected a new co-chair, Dr. Sushanta Mitra from University
of Alberta, during the Micro and Nano Fluid Dynamics technical committee meeting. We’re delighted to
have Sushanta on the team, and look forward to an exciting year ahead.
In 2013, the IMECE will be held in San Diego, California, and the organizers are currently processing the
papers and sessions for this event. The Micro and Nano Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee is looking
forward to the meeting and broadening the impact of the division.
This year the Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting is being jointly sponsored with ASME Heat Transfer
Meeting and the International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels in Puerto
Rico, USA. A number of the MNFDTC committee members are participating either by organizing
sessions or presenting oral or poster submissions.
Respectfully submitted by Jiang Zhe, Iskander Akhatov, David Sinton (MNFDTC chair), and Sushanta
Mitra (MNFDTC co-Chair).
Multiphase Flow
Technical Committee
Timothy J. O’Hern, Chair and
Deborah Pence, Vice-Chair
The Multiphase Flow Technical Committee (MFTC) has
had an exciting year that included celebrating the 75th anniversary of the formation of our committee.
Even though our committee members have been studying multiphase flows for more than 75 years, there
is still a great array of unanswered questions in this field, and the work of our committee and its members
remains current and strong.
The MFTC is made up of a group of engineers, scientists, and especially young professionals interested in
advancing knowledge in all aspects of multiphase flow. Because the area is so broad it touches many
other disciplines, including Heat Transfer, Acoustics, Manufacturing, Combustion, Bioengineering, and
Micro/Nano-Electromechanical systems, to name but a few. Our main vehicle to bring the multiphase
community together is to create, sponsor, and organize symposia and forums at engineering conferences:
the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) and the Fluids Engineering
Division (FED) Summer Meeting (FEDSM). The latter is the principal venue for MFTC activities.
Our committee celebrated its 75th anniversary as part of the ASME 2012 Heat Transfer, Fluids
Engineering, & Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels Conferences (HTFNMM2012), held in
Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, USA, last July. Special activities included a plenary lecture on the history of the
MFTC presented by past chair Dr. Bill Morgan, a special session highlighting some key multiphase
research done during the past 8 decades presented by 8 past MFTC chairs, and special commemorations
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of recently parted past chairs, Drs. Clayton T. Crowe (17th chair: 1984-1986) and J. William (Bill) Holl (6th
chair: 1962-1964).
The MFTC is sponsoring several sessions at 2013 meetings, including:
FEDSM2013 (Lake Tahoe)
 13th International Symposium on Numerical Methods for Multiphase Flow
 Symposium on Non-Invasive Measurements in Single and Multiphase Flows (co-sponsored with
FMITC)
 48th Cavitation and Multiphase flow Forum
 Open Forum on Multiphase Flows: Work in Progress
 13th International Symposium on Gas-Liquid Two-phase Flows
 13th International Symposium on Liquid-Solid Flows
 1st International Symposium on Multiscale Methods for Multiphase Flow
IMECE2013 (San Diego)
 Forum on Recent Developments in Multiphase Flows
Our committee elections were held at the FEDSM 2012 meeting in Puerto Rico. Tim O’Hern, Sandia
National Laboratories, was elected to the position of chair, and Deb Pence, Oregon State University, was
elected to position of vice-chair.
Come join us in 2013 as we are always pleased to welcome new and active members. Please feel free to
contact the chair, Tim O’Hern at tjohern@sandia.gov or the vice-chair, Deb Pence at
deborah.pence@oregonstate.edu.
Computational Fluid
Dynamics Technical
Committee
Raymond Gordnier, Chair and Ning
Zhang, Vice-Chair
The focus of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee (CFDTC) is the field of
computational fluid dynamics and related areas. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is primarily
concerned with the numerical solution of the equations that describe fluid dynamics. It also often
involves the related area of heat transfer. Areas of interest to the CFDTC include but are not limited to
the development of algorithms for use with CFD, advanced techniques for the numerical representation
of fluid flow, quantification of numerical error, verification and validation for CFD, practices and
procedures for the accurate application of CFD, turbulence modeling and simulation and fundamental
research and applications. Membership is open to anyone who is interested in participating in the
activities of the CFDTC.
The CFDTC meets twice a year at the summer Fluids Engineering Division (FED) meeting and in the fall
at the IMECE meeting. At the summer FED meeting the CFDTC sponsors 5 symposia: Symposium on
Applications in CFD, Symposium on Development and Applications of Immersed Boundary Methods,
Symposium on DNS, LES, and Hybrid RANS/LES Methods, International Symposium on FluidStructure Interaction and Flow-Induced Noise in Industrial Applications, and Symposium on CFD
Verification and Validation (co-sponsor). At the IMECE meeting the CFDTC sponsors a Symposium on
CFD Algorithms and Applications for Flow Optimization and Controls and a Panel on CFD/EFD
Dilemma is co-sponsored by CFDTC and FMITC. The Symposium and Panel are intended for widening
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the participation of the CFDTC and cultivating the inter-disciplinary interactions between the CFDTC
and the other disciplines at the IMECE. We encourage your participation in these Symposia.
The CFDTC is currently developing a new symposium, Symposium on Algorithms and Applications for
High Performance CFD Computation that will have its first meetings at the 2014 FED Summer meeting.
The symposium will focus on a) algorithm development for parallel computation in CFD including but
not limited to domain decomposition, pre-conditioning, OpenMP, and message passing, b) algorithm
development on novel high performance computing platforms such as cloud computing and GPU
applications, c) CFD applications exploiting high performance computational methods and comparisons
of HPC packages, and d) visualization techniques for large data sets. We look forward to your
participation in this new Symposium.
We welcome you to be part of the CFDTC, by coming to our TC meetings, presenting at our symposia,
or volunteering to help in CFDTC activities. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please feel
free to contact the CFDTC Raymond Gordnier (raymond.gordnier@wpafb.af.mil) Chair or Ning Zhang
(nzhang@mcneese.edu), Vice Chair.
Fluid Measurement and
Instrumentation
Technical Committee
Hui Hu, Chair and F. Javier Diez,
Vice-Chair
The mission of the Fluid Measurement and Instrumentation Technical Committee (FMITC) is to
provide a venue for the Fluids Engineering Division (FED) to focus on measurement and
instrumentation issues relevant to fluid flows. Modern fluids engineering embraces a complex spectrum
of problems from the relatively simple case of isothermal, incompressible, single phase flow of
Newtonian fluids to non-Newtonian multiphase flows with heat and mass transfer from the nanoscale to
the macroscale. Experimental measurements and instrumentation are required in all cases to verify new
theories, to certify the performance of fluid machinery, or to obtain fundamental information on
processes to guide and validate the development of analytical and numerical models.
The FMITC was originally organized under the Coordinating Group for Fluid Measurements (CGFM)
for the purpose to foster technical and professional development activities in the area of fluid
measurements in both laboratory and field measurements. FMITC is responsible to organize, promote,
and present symposia, forums, and panel discussions on fluid measurements. The committee meetings of
FMITC are held twice a year at the IMECE and the FED Summer Meeting. The time and date of these
meetings are announced in the conference program.
FMITC will organize following symposium and forums as an integral part of ASME 2013 Fluids
Engineering Division Summer Meeting will be held on July 7-11, 2013 at Incline Village, Nevada, USA:
 Forum on Fluid Measurements and Instrumentation
 Symposium on Non-Invasive Measurements in Single and Multiphase Flow
Further information about the symposium and forums is available at
http://www.asmeconferences.org/fedsm2013/
FMITC will also be active at IMECE2013 to be held on Nov. 15-21, 2013 at San Diego, California to
organize or co-sponsor following forums and symposium:
 Fluid Measurements and Instrumentation
Further information about the symposiums and forums is available at
http://www.asmeconferences.org/congress2013/
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The membership of FMITC is open to all professionals from Academia, Government, Industry and
Private Sector interested in fluid measurement and instrumentation. If you are interested in joining
FMITC or receiving announcements and/or notification of FMITC sponsored meetings and
symposiums, please write to the FMITC chair, Prof. Hui Hu at huhui@iastate.edu; or the vice chair Prof.
F. Javier Diez at diez@jove.rutgers.edu.
Fluid Mechanics Technical
Committee
Kamran Siddiqui, Chair and David Davis, ViceChair
The Fluid Mechanics Technical Committee (FMTC) promotes fundamental and
applied fluid mechanics related professional activities within the Division and the Society. The
Committee has a membership of over 60, involved in various activities related to the fluid engineering
profession. The committee organizes symposia at the annual summer meeting of Fluids Engineering
Division (FEDSM) and the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
(IMECE). These symposia cover different fundamental and applied aspects of fluid mechanics important
to fluid engineering community. In 2012, FMTC organized 11 symposia at FEDSM in Puerto Rico and 4
symposia at IMECE in Houston.
Professors Javid Bayandor from Virginia Tech, and Kamran Siddiqui from the University of Western
Ontario completed their term in the office as Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively. At FMTC meeting
during FEDSM at Puerto Rico, elections were held for the positions of the Chair and Vice-Chair.
Professor Kamran Siddiqui from the University of Western Ontario and Dr. David Davis from NASA
Glenn Research Center were elected as Chair and Vice-Chair for a two-year term by acclamation. The
committee expressed their appreciation to the Past Chair Professor Javid Bayandor for his dedication and
work during his term at the office.
Over the past two years, FMTC has been working with the Executive committee to introduce initiative to
enhance graduate student involvement. This resulted in the establishment of a Graduate Student Track.
Past FMTC Chair Professor Javid Bayandor who played a key role in the formation of this Track is
serving as its first organizer.
At FMTC meetings held during FEDSM at Puerto Rico and IMECE at Houston, among other topics,
members discussed various ideas about how to improve student participation in these conferences which
include student poster exhibition judged by a panel with prizes. Members also discussed the idea of
introducing a short course or a workshop during FEDSM.
At FEDSM 2013 to be held at Lake Incline Village, NV, FMTC is co-sponsoring two plenary talks. The
plenary talk by Professor Jerry Westerweel from Delft University is co-sponsored by FMTC, FMITC and
FASTC, and the plenary talk by Dr. D.R. Reddy from NASA Glenn Research Center is co-sponsored by
FMTC and CFDTC.
The aim of FMTC is to foster professional activities that can contribute to the advancement of scientific
knowledge in the field of fluid mechanics. We encourage and welcome membership and participation
from professionals, academics and students with interest in fluids engineering. Such involvement is the
key to achieve our mission. We therefore invite you to join us during either or both of our bi-annual
committee meetings at FEDSM or IMECE. Please contact us at ksiddiqui@eng.uwo.ca (Kamran
Siddiqui) or david.o.davis@nasa.gov (David Davis) with your questions or comments concerning FMTC.
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Honors and Awards
Khaled J. Hammad, Chair
The Honors and Awards Committee consists of six members, typically past
chairs of the Fluids Engineering Division technical committees. The 2013
Committee members include Professor Theodore J. Heindel (FMITC) of Iowa
State University, Dr. Miguel Visbal (CFDTC) of Air Force Research Laboratory,
Professor S. Balachandar (MFTC) of University of Florida, Professor Deborah V.
Pence (MNFDTC) of Organ State University, Wayne Strasser (FASTC) of Eastman Chemical Company,
and the Committee Chair Professor Khaled J. Hammad (FMTC) of Central Connecticut State University.
More about the Fluids Engineering Honors and Awards Committee can be found at
http://divisions.asme.org/FED/Fluids_Award_Committee.cfm.
Detailed descriptions of the ASME Society and FED Division Awards presented by the Honors and
Awards Committee can be found at http://divisions.asme.org/FED/Honors_Awards.cfm. The
following is a brief description of the awards offered and the 2012 recipients.
Fluids Engineering Award
The Fluids Engineering Award is conferred upon an individual for outstanding contributions over a
period of years to the engineering profession and in particular to the field of fluids engineering through
research, practice or teaching. More details can be found at http://www.asme.org/about-asme/honorsawards/achievement-awards/fluids-engineering-award. The recipient of the 2012 Fluids Engineering
Award was Professor Gretar Tryggvason. He is currently the Viola D. Hank Professor of Aerospace and
Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He served as the Head of the Department of
Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 2000 to 2010, and before that he was an
assistant, associate and full professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor for fifteen years. Professor Tryggvason received his doctorate from Brown
University in 1985 and spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Courant Institute. He has also held
short term visiting positions at Caltech, NASA Lewis Engineering Research Center, University of
Marseilles, and University of Paris VI. Professor Tryggvason is best known for developing, with his
students and collaborators, a front tracking method for direct numerical simulations of multiphase flows
and the use of this method to examine several systems, including bubbly flows, droplet motion and
boiling. He is the author of over hundred journal papers and numerous other publications, and has
supervised over twenty doctoral dissertations. Professor Tryggvason is an active member of several
professional societies, a fellow of the American Physical Society and ASME, and the editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Computational Physics.
Fluids Machinery Design Award
The Award, presented biennially, honors excellence in the design of fluid machinery involving significant
fluid mechanics principles, which benefits mankind as exemplified by product use within the past decade.
More details can be found at http://secure.asme.org/honors_sup/hdetails.cfm?id=277. The recipient of
the 2012 Fluids Machinery Design Award was Dr. Leroy H. Smith, Jr. After receiving a Dr. Engrg.
Degree from Johns Hopkins in 1954, Dr. Smith joined General Electric Aircraft Engines (GEAE) in
1954. He continues as consultant to GE since retirement in January 1994. He established many of the
aerodynamic design procedures still being used to design GE axial-flow fans and compressors, He was
responsible for the use of low Mach number multi-stage testing as a tool for research and development.
In 1969, Dr. Smith received the top GEAE award for his aerodynamic design of the CF6 engine fan
configuration. In 1983 he was co-winner of this award for the aerodynamic design and development of
the 23:1 pressure ratio, 10-stage compressor for the NASA/GE Energy Efficient Engine. This
compressor design is currently being used in the GE90 and GEnx Engines. In 1987 he won the Charles
P. Steinmetz Award for outstanding technical contributions of General Electric engineers and scientists
to the Company and to society. Dr. Smith is a Fellow of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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and has written numerous papers on turbomachinery design. He is past chairman of the ASME Gas
Turbine Division Turbomachinery Committee. In 1981 and again in 1987 he was the winner of the
ASME Gas Turbine Award for the most outstanding technical paper of the year. In 1987 he received the
ASME R. Tom Sawyer Award for important contributions to advancing the purposes of the gas turbine
industry, and in 1993 he received the ASME Aircraft Engine Technology Award for sustained personal
creative contributions to aircraft engine technology. In 2001 he received the international ISOABE
Award for his technical contributions and leadership in the Aircraft Engine Community. He is also a
member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Robert T. Knapp Award
This award is given for the best paper presented at the Fluids Engineering Division sponsored sessions
dealing with analytical, numerical and laboratory research. More details can be found at
http://secure.asme.org/honors_sup/hdetails.cfm?id=348. The 2012 Knapp Award was presented to
Yuval Doron and Andrew Duggleby for their paper entitled: “Optical Density Measurements and
Analysis for Single-Mode Initial-Condition Buoyancy-Driven Mixing,” (IMECE2010-38206). Yuval
Doron has a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Texas A&M University, a B.S. in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and 6 years of service in the US Navy as a steam
propulsion Engineer & Electro Hydraulic Winch specialist. He has over 15 years metal fabrication and
design experience and is currently the President/ founder of Exosent Engineering, located in College
Station, TX. Andrew Duggleby received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech, a M.S. in
Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and B.S. degrees in Mechanical
Engineering and in Physics from Texas A&M University. Andrew is currently an Assistant Professor in
the Mechanical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. To date he has graduated 1 Ph.D.
student and 6 M.S. students, published 10 journal papers and 8 peer-reviewed conference papers, and
teaches graduate and undergraduate courses is fluid mechanics, turbulence, and numerical methods.
Andrew is also currently the CTO/founder of Exosent Engineering, located in College Station, TX, and
is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas.
Lewis F. Moody Award
The Lewis F. Moody Award is given for the best paper presented at the Fluids Engineering Division
sponsored sessions dealing with a topic useful in mechanical engineering practice. More details can be
found at http://secure.asme.org/honors_sup/hdetails.cfm?id=349. The 2010 Moody Award was
presented to Arvind Jayaprakash, Chao-Tsung Hsiao, and Georges Chahine for their paper entitled
“Numerical and Exprimental Study of the Interaction of a Spark-Generated Bubble and a Vertical Wall,”
(IMECE2010-40515). Arvind Jayaprakash is a Research Scientist at DYNAFLOW, INC. He obtained his
M.S degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2007. Prior to joining
DYNAFLOW, he was a graduate research assistant at the Computational Fluid Dynamics Research
Laboratory (CFDRL) under Dr. Urmila Ghia and Dr. Karman Ghia. He obtained his bachelor’s degree
in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Madras, India in 2004. At DYNAFLOW, Arvind
works on a spectrum of projects involving applied and fundamental analysis, numerical simulation, and
experimentation. His research interests include bubble dynamics, cavitation, multi-phase flow, fluidstructure interactions and material erosion due to cavitation. Chao-Tsung Hsiao is a Principal Research
Scientist at DYNAFLOW, INC. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Naval Architecture at the National
Taiwan Ocean University, then a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering (1992) and a Ph.D. in Mechanical
Engineering (1996) from the Pennsylvania State University. He was a postdoctoral research associate at
Penn State for one and half years before joining DYNAFLOW in 1998. His research experience includes
cavitation, bubble dynamics, multiphase flow, vortex flow, boundary layer separated flow, turbulent flow,
ship and wave hydrodynamics, shock, fluid structure interaction, and inverse problems/optimization
studies. Georges L. Chahine is the pesident and technical director at DYNAFLOW, INC. He graduated
as a Civil Engineer from the University St Joseph Lebanon, then as a Naval Architect from ENSTA,
Paris. He then obtained a Docteur Ingenieur and a Doctor es Sciences degrees from the University of
Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France in 1979. He conducted R&D work for 8 years with Tracor
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Hydronautics before founding DYNAFLOW in 1988. He has been involved with fundamental and
applied studies on cavitation, two-phase flows, bubble dynamics, fluid structure interaction, cavitating
jets, acoustics, ship hydrodynamics, environmental studies and useful applications of cavitation.
Sankaraiyer Gopalakrishnan-Flowserve Pump
Technology Award
The Award was established in July 2006, with funding generously provided by the Flowserve
Corporation, in honor of the late Dr. Sankaraiyer Gopalakrishnan, “Gopal”. The award is presented
biennially in recognition of outstanding achievement in pump technology, documented through
publications and testimonials of peers and coworkers and in keeping with Gopal’s dedication to the
education of the next generation of expert pump engineers. More details can be found at
http://secure.asme.org/honors_sup/hdetails.cfm?id=548.
Freeman Scholar Awards
The Freeman Scholar Award is presented on even years to an experienced person working in the fluids
engineering area. The awardee is expected to write a review of a topic in his/her area of specialization,
make a presentation at the Annual Summer Meeting, and have the review published in the Journal of
Fluids Engineering. The 2012 award was presented to Professor Pratap Vanka from the University of
Urbana-Champaign. The topic of his presentation and paper was “Computational Fluid Dynamics on
Graphical Processing Units (GPU).” Professor Vanka has been active in CFD research since the early
70s when the first CFD codes were developed. His plenary presentation at FEDSM 2013 was well
received and his paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Fluids Engineering.
The 2013 members of the Freeman Scholar Award committee are Stathis Michaelides of the Texas
Christian University, Tim O’Hern of Sandia National Laboratories, and Dave Stock of Washington State
University (chair).
The ASME Freeman Scholar Committee is seeking applications and nominations for the Freeman
Scholar Award, which recognizes outstanding individuals for their Fluids Engineering applications.
Application for the 2014 Freeman Scholar Award is due on September 1, 2013. Please find details at
https://www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/literature-awards/freeman-scholar-award.
Members of the 2014 Freeman Scholar Committee include Timothy O’Hern (chair), Stathis Michalides,
and David Stock.
Furnace Wall Temperature Investigation
Wayne Strasser and George Chamoun
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN, USA
INTRODUCTION
It is desired to keep the outer metal walls of a heat transfer medium (HTM) furnace warm enough to
prevent corrosion. A computational study was carried out in order to assess the normal and lowest
possible sheet metal temperatures. The findings were presented at 2012 ASME IMECE in Houston, TX.
Here, a short summary is presented. , HTM is heated in a two-stage furnace assembly (Fig. 1), which is
5.7 meters in diameter and 16 meters high. It entails a convection section at the top, where heat transfer
to the HTM coils is dominated by forced convection, and a lower section, where the heat transfer to the
coils is dominated by radiation. HTM enters four groups of coils at the top at a total rate of 0.255 m3/s
and at a temperature of 338°C, weaving back and forth laterally through the convection section. It then
flows up and down through coil pipes that alternate vertically around the inner circumference of the
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radiation section (Fig. 2). At the bottom of the radiation section, there is a swirling burner assembly as
shown in Fig. 3. The left side shows the overall proximity of the burner and the right side shows a closeup of the assembly itself. 99% of the air is fed through the main swirling entry, and 1% is fed through
the annular secondary feed. Fuel is fed in small entry holes in the annular space between the swirling air
feed and the secondary air. Two types of fuel are fed, the majority of which is natural gas.
Approximately 5% of the fuel feed is waste gas. It is treated as methane in this study. The various
materials making up the layered walls of the radiant section are of a particular interest. The goal of this
work is to study the temperatures of the 1/16” thick Hastelloy C276 and the adjacent 3/16” thick
carbon steel (CS) sandwiched between 6” of ceramic fiber inner liner and 3” of mineral wool insulation
blanket. Both metals are referred to as “sheet metal” because of their relatively low thickness. Due to
the presence of bromine in the waste gas, there is a risk of sheet metal corrosion. It is preferred that the
sandwiched metals stay above 150°C. We will be seeking two types of solutions, those that are “typical”
and those that represent the coolest possible scenario. The external insulation face is exposed to wind at
15MPH at 16°C, which equates to an external heat transfer coefficient of 11 W/m2K. Emissivities of
various materials are taken from the open literature at the appropriate temperature ranges, which required
fine tuning after the base case was complete; component temperatures were not known a priori. There is
some uncertainty in the exact emissivity value of the ceramic inner liner, so a range of values was tested.
Table 1 summarizes the studies. The fuel feed rate is 0.364 standard m3/s. Two air feed rates are
determined by what was required to meet the target plant value for excess oxygen in the flue gas outlet.
Table 1: Computational study matrix
METHOD
Case
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
Fuel
Rate
Nor.
Nor.
Nor.
Nor.
Nor.
Nor.
Nor.
Nor.
Low
Low
Air
Feed
Ratio
Ratio
Ratio
Ratio
Ratio
Ratio
Ratio
Ratio
Ratio
Low
#
Ray
32
36
28
32
32
32
32
32
32
32
Abs. Cer.
FTS Vol. Averaged Temp. [°C]
ACR CF
e Chem. [s] Flue Cer. C276 CS Wool
11 1 0.35 WD1 0.06 755 456 420 420 228
11 1 0.35 WD1 0.06 755 456 419 419 228
11 1 0.35 WD1 0.06 754 456 419 419 228
6
1 0.35 WD1 0.06 756 456 419 419 228
6
3 0.35 WD1 0.06 732 458 422 422 229
6
1 0.35 WD1 0.03 759 458 422 422 229
6
1 0.78 WD1 0.03 753 451 415 415 226
6
1 0.35 Flam. 0.03 738 451 416 416 226
6
1 0.35 Flam. 0.03 647 406 375 375 205
6
1 0.35 Flam. 0.03 390 319 295 295 163
Exc.
O2
Req.
[%]
12.3
12.3
12.3
12.3
12.3
12.3
12.3
17.2
N/A
N/A
Flue
Out.
Temp.
[°C]
527
527
527
535
484
522
520
517
483
421
The Reynolds-averaged linear momentum balance, species balance, energy balance, and fully differential
Reynolds stress relation are discretized and solved using a commercial ANSYS V13 double precision
unstructured solver utilizing a vertex-based finite volume method in which each term is converted to
mesh element volume integrals and element surface integrals. A high resolution algorithm is used to
discretize advection terms. Mass flows are discretized using a Rhie-Chow approach, to avoid pressure
decoupling on the co-located grid. Newton-Raphson linearization addresses compressibility effects.
Viscous stresses, diffusion terms, and the pressure gradient are discretized using typical finite element
shape functions. These shape functions depend on the mesh element type. Velocity and pressure are
coupled together in the same matrix, making the solution algorithm fully implicit. Finally, a coupled ILU
algebraic multigrid technique is used to solve the resulting system of matrices. Although combustion is
technically unsteady, the steady solver was used in the present work in order to save months of calendar
time. A method of false time stepping (FTS) is used to progress forward, and the effect of this step size
is considered. For all cases, the fully differential “BSL” Reynolds stress model (RSM) is employed. An
automatic wall treatment addresses the variable grid density near the walls. The turbulent Prandtl and
Schmidt numbers are 0.9 and 2.0, respectively. More on RSM can be found in Strasser (2008), and the
effects of turbulence approaches may be worth pursuing at some point.
An issue with radiation regards the size of the mesh considered for the radiation computations.
Theoretically, the complete modeled domain could be included, making the actual coarsening rate (ACR)
equal to unity. If only 1/6th of the domain is involved, the ACR would be 6. Table 1 shows that two
ACR values were tested. It should be clearly noted that more testing was carried out than is shown in
Table 1; for the sake of space conservation, only the most important models are discussed here.
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RESULTS
Case A results were compared with plant data.
Specifically, the only known data were the HTM
temperature rise across both sets of coils, the HTM differential pressure across both sets of coils, and the
flue outlet excess oxygen molar concentration. The differences between CFD and plant values were
1.5%, 4.8%, and -0.41% respectively.
At typical plant fuel and air feed rates, evaluations were carried out to ascertain the range of expected
results as a function of some modeling choices. Cases A, B, C, D, and F involved the effects of the
number of rays for radiation tracing, radiation grid coarsening rate (ACR), and the size of the false time
steps (FTS) for the steady solver. Three sets of numerical results were used as measures, specifically the
axial gradients of sheet metal temperature, ceramic inner linear temperature, and flue velocity. The axial
coordinate of the domain was divided into approximately 50 successive slices. On those slices, areabased averages were used for the temperatures, while peak planar values were sequestered for the flue
velocity. The results are shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 6, respectively. Notice that temperature curves end at
~0.8 for the normalized axial coordinate, which is simply representative of the fact that the ceramic and
sheet metals do not extend up into the convection section.
It is seen that for the sheet metal temperature, the only item that seems to matter much is the halving of
the FTS. It does not significantly affect the volume-averages, but only adds inflection to the axial profile
(higher in the bottom, lower up top). The ceramic temperatures and peak flue velocity behave similarly;
the lower FTS raises the values in the bottom and lowers them in the top.
Cases F and H offer a direct comparison of combustion modeling at typical fuel and air flows. The
flamelet approach “H” produces higher metal temperatures near the bottom and lower near the top, but
the volume means for all materials are lower with the flamelet model. Figures 7 and 8 show flue
temperatures on two planes; one plane in Fig. 7 is an axial mid-slice, and the other is a horizontal slice
near the burner. Figure 8 shows various axial slices moving up the radiation section. Blue is 25°C, while
red is 1500°C or higher for both figures. Obviously, the pre-mixed flue (“F”, left) is hotter, which
concurs with Yin et al. (2010). It may seem confusing that the higher pre-mixed flame temperatures
result in lower metal temperatures; however we see in Fig. 6 that the pre-mixed flue velocities are lower,
by as much as 50%, near the bottom. Not only is the velocity lower, but the turbulent kinetic energy,
presumably affecting inner wall boundary layer heat transfer, seems to be lower for “F” as is depicted in
Fig. 9. The scales are different, with the left (F) being 0 to 200 and the right being 0 to 550 m2/s2.
Evidently, forced convection plays an important role in bounding wall heat transfer in the radiation
section. It should be noted that the amount of excess air in the feed had to be increased for the flamelet
model in order to meet the plant flue outlet excess oxygen concentration. For the pre-mixed model, the
excess air requirement was 12.3%, while it was 17.2% for the flamelet approach.
A couple of radiation issues are addressed in cases D through G at typical fuel and air flows. For case E
(compared with D), the gas phase absorption is arbitrarily increased by 3x. For case G (compared with
F), the ceramic inner linear emissivity is nearly doubled. Values ranging from about 0.3 to about 0.8 can
be found in the open literature for refractory-type materials, so model sensitivity is sought. Raising the
gas absorptivity significantly lowered the flue temperature at the expense of solid temperatures. Raising
the ceramic emissivity lowered all temperatures throughout. In terms of axial profiles, the higher
absorption didn’t change the results much, but all solid temperatures were shifted down for the higher
ceramic emissivity.
At the ends, it should be mentioned that dramatic changes in fuel and air flows were considered and the
results were reported in the original paper by Strasser and Chamoun (2012) that showed some interesting
differences made possible by the use of the flamelet approach.
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Convection
section
Flue outlet
plane
Sandwiched
metal
vertical
layers
Radiant
section
Fig. 1: Computational mesh for two-stage HTM furnace
HTM
inlets
HTM
outlets
Fig. 2: Coils in the radiation section (red) and convection section (blue)
Waste
Gas
Secondary
Air
Fuel
Primary
Air
Fig. 3: Swirling burner assembly at the bottom of the furnace on left and a close-up on right
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Fig. 4: Axial area-averaged temperatures in the sheet metal layers inside the radiation section walls
Fig. 5: Axial area-averaged temperatures of the radiation section ceramic inner liner
Fig. 6: Axial peak flue velocities across the entire unit.
Fig. 7: Flue temperature contours on two slice planes for cases F and H over the range of 25 to 1500°C
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Fig. 8: Flue temperature contours on multiple axial slice planes for cases F and H over the range of 25 to 1500°C
Fig. 9: Flue turbulent kinetic energy contours for cases F and H with different ranges; left is 0 to 200, while the right is
0 to 550 m2/s2
F
H
Fig. 10: Flue velocity magnitude contours on slice planes for cases F and H over the range of 0 to 50 m/s
REFERENCES
Strasser, W., 2010. “Towards the optimization of a pulsatile three-stream coaxial airblast injector.”
International Journal of Multiphase Flow 37, 831-844.
Strasser, W. S., Feldman, G. M., Wilkins, F. C., and Leylek, J. H., 2004, “Transonic Passage Turbine Blade
Tip Clearance With Scalloped Shroud: Part II—Losses With and Without Scrubbing Effects in Engine
Configuration,” ASME Paper No. IMECE2004-59116.
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Strasser, W., 2007. “CFD Investigation of Gear Pump Mixing Using Deforming/Agglomerating Mesh.”
Journal of Fluids Engineering 129, 476 – 484.
Strasser, W., 2008. Discrete particle study of turbulence coupling in a confined jet gas-liquid separator.
Journal of Fluids Engineering 130, 1 –11.
Yin, C., Johansen, L., Rosendahl, L., and Kaer, S., 2010, “New weighted sum of gray gases model
applicable to CFD modeling of oxy-fuel combustion: Derivation, validation, and implementation,”
Energy Fuels, 24, 6275-6282.
Simulation of Heat Transfer in Low-Re
Turbulent Flows in Corrugated Pipes
Ramin Rahmani, Eric Arnold, and George Kraus
A. O. Smith Corporation, Johnson City, TN, USA
INTRODUCTION
Enhancement of convective heat transfer in internal turbulent flows with low-to-moderate Re number
has been the subject of numerous studies, due to its vast applications. Corrugated surfaces can be used as
enhancement devices in the heat convection systems. An ideal corrugation, for heat transfer in internal
flow applications, provides a higher heat transfer rate with minimized pressure drop. The ratio of heat
flux to the pressure drop can be used to determine the efficiency of a design. Numerical simulation is
used to study the thermal performance of corrugated pipes in low-Re number turbulent flows. The
impacts of different geometry parameters on heat transfer are investigated. The total length of the pipe
and its hydraulic diameter are the same for all cases. Dimensions of the corrugated pipes are shown in
Table 1. Figure 1 shows the schematics of the studied corrugated pipe.
Table 1: Geometrical characteristics of the motionless inserts
Pipe length
500 mm
Pipe diameter
50 mm
Total number of corrugated segments
8
Corrugation half depth
2, 3, 4 mm
Corrugation pitch length
50 mm
Entrance/Exit length
50 mm
METHOD
In this study, Smagorinsky-Lilly model is used for solving the subgrid-scale eddy viscosity. About 3.9
million unstructured hexagonal cells were used to study four different geometries. A second-order
commercial code was employed for the study. Pressure-velocity coupling is achieved by using the
SIMPLEC algorithm. No-slip boundary conditions are applied to the pipe’s wall. Its surface is assumed to
be adiabatic at the entrance and exit regions and its temperature is set at 700 K elsewhere. Constant mass
flow rate of 117.81 g/s and fluid temperature of 300 K are applied at the inlet. The velocity profile for
fully developed flow in a tube is used at the flowfield inlet.
RESULTS
Flow and thermal fields in corrugated pipes were analyzed for Re = 3,000. Table 2 summarizes the
pressure drop across the corrugated region and vorticity magnitude at trailing cross-section of the
corrugated pipes that are non-dimensionalized using the same parameters from the plain pipe. As the
corrugation depth increases the pressure drop across the pipe increases. The rate of pressure drop raise
increases noticeably from about 59% for 2mm corrugation to about 437% for 4mm corrugation. For the
cases of K = 1 W/mK, Table 3 summarizes the heat flux using the values of the plain pipe as reference. It
also presents the Nusselt numbers. Using 2mm corrugation increases the heat flux by about 20%
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compared to the plain pipe. Increasing the corrugation to 3 mm improves the heat flux by an additional
3%. Using 4mm corrugation improves the heat flux by an additional 13% (compared to the 2mm
corrugation). This is partially due to an improved heat transfer coefficient. The Nusselt number is
improved by 29% in 4mm corrugated pipe, compared to the plain pipe. Also, increased contact surface
area contributes to the heat transfer enhancement to a total improvement of about 36%.
Table 2: Dimensionless pressure drop and vorticity magnitude
Corrugation half
Pressure drop ratio
Vorticity ratio
depth (mm)
2
1.588
1.005
3
2.575
1.081
4
4.371
1.136
Table 3: Dimensionless heat flux and Nu (K = 1 W/mK)
Corrugation half
Heat flux ratio
Nusselt No.
depth (mm)
0
1.000
15.8
2
1.197
17.9
3
1.233
18.2
4
1.356
19.6
Table 4: Dimensionless pressure drop heat flux (K = 0.01 W/mK)
Corrugation half
Pressure drop ratio
Heat flux ratio
depth (mm)
2
1.588
1.904
3
2.575
2.112
4
4.371
2.308
Table 5: Heat flux to pressure drop ratio
Heat flux to pressure
Heat flux to pressure
Corrugation half
drop ratio
drop ratio
depth (mm)
K = 1 W/m.K
K = 0.01 W/m.K
2
0.8
1.2
3
0.5
0.8
4
0.3
0.5
The impact of corrugation geometry on the flow and thermal fields are illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 in axial
flow cross sections. As expected the area affected by turbulence is limited to the fluid neighboring the
wall in a smooth pipe, while in a 4mm corrugated pipe a large portion of the flowfield experiences
relatively higher turbulence. The funnel shaped low turbulent region narrows down rapidly in the case of
corrugated pipe. The temperature contours follow that pattern in general terms. The size of the cold fluid
zone reduces sharply in the corrugated pipe as the flow passes through the pipe. The local hot zones are
limited to near-wall-diverging sections where the flow turbulence is less pronounced.
The temperature contours across the corrugated pipe at 2nd, 4th, and 6th pitch cross-sections (and
corresponding sections in plain pipe) are shown in Figs. 4-7. At the end of 2nd pitch, the impact of the
upstream corrugations on the heat transfer and fluid temperature is less pronounced, especially for the
2mm corrugation. It improves noticeably as the corrugation depth increases. As the fluid goes through
the corrugated pipe, the impact of the corrugation on heat transfer and fluid temperature becomes more
pronounced even for the 2mm corrugation. The temperature at the 6th pitch is raised by about 5% using a
2mm corrugation, while it is improved by 6.7% using 3mm and by 8.9% using 4mm corrugation. The
upstream temperature field is unaffected by the downstream corrugations. As the corrugation depth
grows the size of cold fluid zone in the core region reduces and also the hot zone adjacent to the solid
wall diminishes, showing enhanced heat convection in the flowfield.
Table 4 presents the pressure drop and heat flux ratios when K = 0.01 W/mK. As expected, the pressure
drop across the flowfield is not affected by the fluid thermal conductivity since the rheological properties
of the fluid is unchanged. The impact of surface corrugation on the heat transfer is more pronounced as
the thermal conductivity of working fluid decreased; the heat flux increased by an additional 66% on
average, compared to a plain pipe.
To quantify the performance of different corrugations studied in this work, the ratio of heat flux to
pressure drop is presented in Table 5. The associated increase in pressure drop to enhance the heat
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transfer rate increases as the corrugation depth is increased. It is also seen that the corrugation pipes are
more effective for fluids with lower thermal conductivity.
The corrugated surfaces can increase the heat transfer rate significantly compared in a pipe, especially
when the thermal conductivity of the working fluid is low. As the corrugation depth increases the heat
transfer is improved, however the rate of improvement diminishes, while the associated pressure drop in
the pipe increases noticeably.
Figure 1: Corrugated pipe
Figure 2: Smooth pipe (Top: temperature contours, bottom: contours of turbulent kinetic energy)
Figure 3: 4mm corrugated pipe (Top: temperature contours, bottom: contours of turbulent kinetic energy)
Figure 4: Temperature contours in a plain pipe at cross-section similar to 2nd, 4th, and 6th corrugation pitch
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Figure 5: Temperature contours in a 2mm corrugated pipe (Top to bottom 2nd, 4th, and 6th corrugation pitch)
Figure 6: Temperature contours in a 3mm corrugated pipe (Top to bottom 2nd, 4th, and 6th corrugation pitch)
Figure 7: Temperature contours in a 4mm corrugated pipe (Top to bottom 2nd, 4th, and 6th corrugation pitch)
REFERENCES
Rahmani, R. K., Keith, T. G., and Ayasoufi, A., 2006, “Numerical study of the heat transfer rate in a
helical static mixer”, Journal of Heat Transfer, 128 (8), pp. 769-783.
Rahmani, R. K., Tanbour E. Y., Ayasoufi, A., and Molavi, H., 2010, “Enhancement of Convective Heat
Transfer in Internal Compressible Flows by Stationary Inserts”, ASME Journal of Thermal Science and
Engineering Applications, 2(1), pp. 011005-1-10.
Smagorinsky, J., 1963, “General Circulation Experiments with the Primitive Equations. I. The Basic
Experiment”, Month. Wea. Rev., 91, pp. 99-164.
Lilly, D. K., 1966, “On the Application of the Eddy Viscosity Concept in the Inertial Subrange of
Turbulence”, NCAR Manuscript 123.
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IMECE2012 Track 7 Fluids and
Heat Transfer
Francine Battaglia
The 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition was held
at the Hilton Americas in Houston, Texas from November 9-15. The success of
the 2012 conference was evidenced by having one of the largest attendances on
record! Track 7 captured many of the presentations related to fluids and heat transfer, and was coorganized between the Heat Transfer Division representative, Prof. S.A. Sherif, and the Fluids
Engineering Division representative, Prof. Battaglia. Within Track 7, there were 500 technical
presentations; the FED portion of Track 7 included 11 recurring topics for which there were
approximately 200 presentations, comprising 40% of the track. A poster track was also included in the
IMECE program to provide a venue for additional presentations that could not be accommodated in the
technical sessions. The poster session, Track 11-7, included 20 poster presentations related to fluids and
heat transfer.
Some of the FED highlights included the Young Engineer Paper (YEP) contest, which is annually
organized by Prof. Terry Beck, Dr. James Liburdy and Dr. Malcolm Andrews. The winners of the 2012
IMECE YEP contest who were recognized at the FED Reception include:
 1st place to Ian McKay, “(IMECE2012-93081) A mm-Scale Aeroelastic Oscillation-Based
Anemometer”
 2nd place to Feng Zhou et al., “(IMECE2012-85059) Numerical Investigation on Turbulent
Flow and Heat Transfer of Rectangular Channels with Elliptic Scale-Roughened Walls”
 3rd place to Jiho You et al., “(IMECE2012-93080) Optimization of Propulsion Kinematics of a
Foil Using Integrated CFD-CSD Simulations”
 honorable mention to Thomas A. Metzger et al., “(IMECE2012-93091) Hemodynamic
abnormalities in stented carotid artery – A fluid structure interaction study”
A new activity for the FED community was the “FED Towne Hall Assembly” to disseminate general
information outside of the regular technical committee meetings. Approximately 50 people attended the
assembly and provided feedback to the FED Executive Committee. We will continue to hold the
assembly at the winter and summer conferences in an effort to enhance communication and interactions
with the FED members, and provide a venue to bring the entire community together to discuss technical
matters.
2013 Fluids Engineering Division Summer
Meeting
The Fluids Engineering Division will host the 2013 summer meeting near the picturesque Sierra
Mountains of Nevada at the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Spa, Resort and Casino at July 7-11, 2013. The
event will culminate interaction between colleagues in academia, industry and government and provide
opportunities for participants to present their ideas and activities in fluids engineering. There will be many
symposia covering a range of topics from fundamental fluid dynamics to micro- and nano-fluid dynamics
applications to multiphase flows, including analytical, numerical and experimental approaches. There will
be opportunities to network and relax with colleagues in addition to seminars and workshops, so we hope
you will join us for an exciting meeting. The plenary speakers are Rodney O. Fox (Iowa State University),
Dhanireddy Ramalinga Reddy (NASA Glenn Research Center), Jerry Westerweel (Delft University),
George Em Karniadakis (Brown University), and the 2013 Fluids Engineering Award Recipient, Ephraim
Gutmark (University of Cincinnati).
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Events Photographs
Bill Morgan presenting plenary lecture on the history of FED
and the Multiphase Flow Technical Committee as part of
the MFTC 75th anniversary celebration
David Halt, Leroy Smith, and Yu-Tai Lee
KSME committee members with friends
for preparation of AJK2015: KwangYong Kim (KSME),
Jinkook Lee (ASME), NahmKeon Hur (KSME),
Yu-Tai Lee (ASME), ShinHyoung Kang (KSME),
Yo Tsujimoto (JSME), Jo Katz (ASME), and Chunill Hah (ASME)
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David Halt, Javid Bayandor, and Jinkook Lee
David Halt, Yu-Tai Lee, and Jinkook Lee
David Stock, Pratap Vanka, and Jinkook Lee
Francine Battaglia and David Halt
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Jinkook Lee (FED), Roy Hogan (HTD),
and Sushanta Mitra (ICNMM)
Mark Duignan, David Halt, Bill Morgan, Jinkook Lee
FED EC Members: Jinkook Lee (EC Chair),
Bahram Khalighi (Secretary),
Francine Battaglia (Vice Chair), Keith Walters (Member),
and David Halt (Past Chair/Treasurer)
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Finalists of YEP Contest along with
Malcolm Andrews and Terry Beck:
Thomas Metzger, Jiho You, Feng Zhou, and Ian McKay
Jinkook Lee, Francine Battaglia and Javid Bayandor
Ted Heindel, Javid Bayandor, and Keith Walters
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