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Modeling And Hydrodynamics Study Of A Thin Liquid Film Flow Over Horizontal Spinning Disk

A thin liquid film flow over horizontal spinning disk under influence of centrifugal field is one of the implementation and method in process intensification. Hydrodynamics study and development of mechanistic model is strongly desirable to describe this film flow behaviors. Thus, Navier-Stokes equa...

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Main Author: Majnis, Mohd Fadhil
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Language:English
Published: 2010
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TP1-1185 Chemical technology
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spelling my.usm.eprints.42488 http://eprints.usm.my/42488/ Modeling And Hydrodynamics Study Of A Thin Liquid Film Flow Over Horizontal Spinning Disk Majnis, Mohd Fadhil TP1-1185 Chemical technology A thin liquid film flow over horizontal spinning disk under influence of centrifugal field is one of the implementation and method in process intensification. Hydrodynamics study and development of mechanistic model is strongly desirable to describe this film flow behaviors. Thus, Navier-Stokes equations and convective diffusion equation were used for thin film thickness prediction and to represent mixing characteristic over the spinning disk respectively. All the governing equations are solved numerically by finite difference method in two dimension configuration, with initial condition and boundary condition. Moreover, CFD software package, Fluent 6.3® was used to simulate a multiphase of volume of fraction (VOF) model of this flow. Then, experiments were carried out in a spinning disk test rig with variable speed of spinning to validate the developed mechanistic model, and to compare with simulation in CFD. The result obtained have showed that the developed mechanistic model and CFD model for thin liquid film thickness were in satisfactory agreement with the experimental results with R2 = 0.841 to 0.999. Meanwhile, the calculated mass transfer coefficients for mixing measures was compared with the work by Tsibranska et al. (2009). The results showed a similar trend in which the mass transfer coefficients increased as disk rotational speed increased. The calculated mass transfer coefficient and visualization of dye particles distribution in mixing characteristic in the present study showed that the speed of disk rotation was a significant parameter in enhancing the mass transfer in thin liquid film flow over a horizontal spinning disk. 2010-05 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/42488/1/MOHD_FADHIL_BIN_MAJNIS_HJ.pdf Majnis, Mohd Fadhil (2010) Modeling And Hydrodynamics Study Of A Thin Liquid Film Flow Over Horizontal Spinning Disk. Masters thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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Modeling And Hydrodynamics Study Of A Thin Liquid Film Flow Over Horizontal Spinning Disk
description A thin liquid film flow over horizontal spinning disk under influence of centrifugal field is one of the implementation and method in process intensification. Hydrodynamics study and development of mechanistic model is strongly desirable to describe this film flow behaviors. Thus, Navier-Stokes equations and convective diffusion equation were used for thin film thickness prediction and to represent mixing characteristic over the spinning disk respectively. All the governing equations are solved numerically by finite difference method in two dimension configuration, with initial condition and boundary condition. Moreover, CFD software package, Fluent 6.3® was used to simulate a multiphase of volume of fraction (VOF) model of this flow. Then, experiments were carried out in a spinning disk test rig with variable speed of spinning to validate the developed mechanistic model, and to compare with simulation in CFD. The result obtained have showed that the developed mechanistic model and CFD model for thin liquid film thickness were in satisfactory agreement with the experimental results with R2 = 0.841 to 0.999. Meanwhile, the calculated mass transfer coefficients for mixing measures was compared with the work by Tsibranska et al. (2009). The results showed a similar trend in which the mass transfer coefficients increased as disk rotational speed increased. The calculated mass transfer coefficient and visualization of dye particles distribution in mixing characteristic in the present study showed that the speed of disk rotation was a significant parameter in enhancing the mass transfer in thin liquid film flow over a horizontal spinning disk.
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author Majnis, Mohd Fadhil
author_facet Majnis, Mohd Fadhil
author_sort Majnis, Mohd Fadhil
title Modeling And Hydrodynamics Study Of A Thin Liquid Film Flow Over Horizontal Spinning Disk
title_short Modeling And Hydrodynamics Study Of A Thin Liquid Film Flow Over Horizontal Spinning Disk
title_full Modeling And Hydrodynamics Study Of A Thin Liquid Film Flow Over Horizontal Spinning Disk
title_fullStr Modeling And Hydrodynamics Study Of A Thin Liquid Film Flow Over Horizontal Spinning Disk
title_full_unstemmed Modeling And Hydrodynamics Study Of A Thin Liquid Film Flow Over Horizontal Spinning Disk
title_sort modeling and hydrodynamics study of a thin liquid film flow over horizontal spinning disk
publishDate 2010
url http://eprints.usm.my/42488/1/MOHD_FADHIL_BIN_MAJNIS_HJ.pdf
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