2018 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Turbulent and Reactive Flows

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

Chair

Li Xi, McMaster University

Co-Chair

De-Wei Yin, The Dow Chemical Company

Presentations

08:00 AM

(307a) An Overview of the Stress-Blended Eddy Simulation Method in Ansys CFD (Invited Talk)
D. Christopher Hill, Florian R. Menter

08:30 AM

(307b) Reynolds Stress Closure for Inertial Frames and Rotating Frames
Charles Petty, André Bénard

08:45 AM

(307c) Turbulent Drag Reduction in Plane Couette Flow with Polymer Additives: A Direct Numerical Simulation Study
Bamin Khomami, Hao Teng, Nansheng Liu, Xiyun Lu

09:00 AM

(307d) Vortex Dynamics for High Levels of Polymer Drag Reduction: Quantitative Analysis Enabled By a New Vortex-Tracking Algorithm
Lu Zhu, Li Xi

09:15 AM

(307e) The Role of Helicity in Turbulent Transport of Passive Scalars
Quoc T. Nguyen, Dimitrios V. Papavassiliou

09:30 AM

(307f) Cross-Gradient Scalar Transport in Turbulent Shear Flows
James Hill, Rodney Fox, Michael G. Olsen, Katrine M. Jansen, Emmanuel Hitimana, Zhenping Liu

09:45 AM

(307g) Universal Realizable Anisotropic Prestress Closure for Multiphase Turbulent Flows
Charles Petty, André Bénard

10:00 AM

(307h) Thermal-Hydraulics, Transient Turbulence, and Two-Phase Flows in a Pressurized-Water Small Modular Nuclear Reactor
Vivek M. Rao, Joseph Smith
(307j) Turbulent spectra and turbulent time scales from Large Eddy Simulations of a stirred vessel
Jason G. Giacomelli, Harry Van den Akker

10:15 AM

(307i) Ember: An Open-Source, Transient Reacting Flow Solver with Applications in Turbulent Flames and Strained Extinction
Alan E. Long, Raymond L. Speth, Ahmed Ghoniem, William Green