2016 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Turbulent and Reactive Flows

This session of contributed presentations will focus on theoretical, numerical, and experimental investigations of transport phenomena in turbulent flows and in flows in which mixing and reactions play a central role.

Chair

Jaehun Chun, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Co-Chair

Radhakrishna Sureshkumar, Syracuse University

Presentations

08:30 AM

(321a) Experimental Investigation of Relaminarization of Turbulence during Natural Circulation Cooling of a Very Hot Channel
Apoorva Rudra, Sanjoy Banerjee, Narbeh Artoun, Masahiro Kawaji

08:45 AM

(321b) Identification of High Energetic Flow Structures in the Separation Chamber of a Uniflow Cyclone with POD
Martin Pillei, Tobias Kofler, Michael Kraxner

09:00 AM

(321c) Experimental Studies of Solid-Liquid Pipe Flow Using LDV
Sarah E. Mena, Jennifer Sinclair Curtis

09:15 AM

(321d) The Influence of Hydrodynamic Fluctuations on Turbulent Mixing and Chemical Reactions in a Rotating Channel Flow
Charles Petty, André Bénard

09:30 AM

(230aw) Computational Study of Turbulent Bubbly Flows
Nithin S. Panicker, Alberto Passalacqua, Rodney Fox

09:45 AM

(321f) An Explicit Variable-Density Projection Method for Low-Mach Reacting Flows on Structured Uniform Grids
Tony Saad, James C. Sutherland

10:00 AM

(321g) RANS Modeling of Cluster-Induced and Shear Turbulence in Particle-Laden Channel Flow
Rodney Fox, Olivier Desjardins, Jesse Capecelatro, Michael Baker

10:15 AM

(321h) Why Fibers Are Better Turbulent Drag Reducing Agents Than Polymers
Arnout Boelens, Murugappan Muthukumar

10:30 AM

(321i) Turbulent Drag Reduction, Flow Development, and Degradation of Polyox U310 Solutions in a Smooth Pipe
Preetinder Virk, Ogagaoghene Attah, Reginaldo Gomes, Raja Selvakumar, Nicholas Mannarino

10:45 AM

(321j) Effects of Drag-Reducing Polymers on the Transition and Growth of Turbulent Coherent Structures
Li Xi, Xue Bai