05 - Fluid Flow
05 - Fluid Flow
05 - Fluid Flow
FlUID
FrICTION
Internal flows through pipes, elbows, tees, valves,
etc., as in this oil refinery, are found in nearly
every industry.
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INTRODUCTION
• Liquid or gas flow through pipes or ducts is commonly
used in heating and cooling applications and fluid
distribution networks.
• The fluid in such applications is usually forced to flow by a
fan or pump through a flow section.
• We pay particular attention to friction, which is directly
related to the pressure drop and head loss during flow
through pipes and ducts.
• The pressure drop is then used to determine the pumping
power requirement. 3
Circular pipes can withstand large pressure differences
between the inside and the outside without undergoing any
significant distortion, but noncircular pipes cannot.
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LAMINAR AND TURBULENT FLOWS
Laminar: Smooth streamlines and
highly ordered motion.
Turbulent: Velocity fluctuations and
highly disordered motion.
Transition: The flow fluctuates between
laminar and turbulent flows.
Most flows encountered in practice are
turbulent.
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Reynolds Number
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TURBULENT FLOW IN PIPES
Most flows encountered in engineering practice are turbulent, and thus it is
important to understand how turbulence affects wall shear stress.
Turbulent flow is a complex mechanism dominated by fluctuations, and it is still
not fully understood.
We must rely on experiments and the empirical or semi-empirical correlations
developed for various situations.
Turbulent flow is characterized by
disorderly and rapid fluctuations of swirling
regions of fluid, called eddies, throughout
the flow.
These fluctuations provide an additional
mechanism for momentum and energy
transfer.
In turbulent flow, the swirling eddies
transport mass, momentum, and energy to
other regions of flow much more rapidly
The intense mixing in turbulent flow than molecular diffusion, greatly enhancing
brings fluid particles at different mass, momentum, and heat transfer.
momentums into close contact and As a result, turbulent flow is associated
thus enhances momentum transfer. with much higher values of friction, heat
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transfer, and mass transfer coefficients
Water exiting a tube: (a) laminar
flow at low flow rate, (b) turbulent
flow at high flow rate, and (c)
same as (b) but with a short
shutter exposure to capture
individual eddies.
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Turbulent Velocity Profile The very thin layer next to the wall where
viscous effects are dominant is the viscous
(or laminar or linear or wall) sublayer.
The velocity profile in this layer is very nearly
linear, and the flow is streamlined.
Next to the viscous sublayer is the buffer
layer, in which turbulent effects are becoming
significant, but the flow is still dominated by
viscous effects.
Above the buffer layer is the overlap (or
transition) layer, also called the inertial
sublayer, in which the turbulent effects are
much more significant, but still not dominant.
Above that is the outer (or turbulent) layer in
the remaining part of the flow in which
turbulent effects dominate over molecular
diffusion (viscous) effects.
Colebrook The friction factor in fully developed turbulent pipe flow depends
Equation on the Reynolds number and the relative roughness /D.
Explicit Haaland
equation
The friction
factor is
minimum for a
smooth pipe
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with roughness.
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The Moody Chart
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Observations from the Moody chart
• For laminar flow, the friction factor decreases with increasing Reynolds
number, and it is independent of surface roughness.
• The friction factor is a minimum for a smooth pipe and increases with
roughness. The Colebrook equation in this case ( = 0) reduces to the
Prandtl equation.
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MINOR LOSSES
The fluid in a typical piping system passes
through various fittings, valves, bends,
elbows, tees, inlets, exits, enlargements,
and contractions in addition to the pipes.
These components interrupt the smooth
flow of the fluid and cause additional
losses because of the flow separation and
mixing they induce.
In a typical system with long pipes, these
losses are minor compared to the total
head loss in the pipes (the major losses)
and are called minor losses.
Minor losses are usually expressed in For a constant-diameter section of a pipe
terms of the loss coefficient KL. with a minor loss component, the loss
coefficient of the component (such as the
gate valve shown) is determined by
measuring the additional pressure loss it
Head loss due
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pressure in the pipe.
When the inlet diameter equals outlet
diameter, the loss coefficient of a
component can also be determined by
measuring the pressure loss across the
component and dividing it by the dynamic
pressure:
KL = PL /(V2/2).
When the loss coefficient for a component
is available, the head loss for that
component is
Minor
loss
Minor losses are also expressed in terms The head loss caused by a
of the equivalent length Lequiv. component (such as the angle
valve shown) is equivalent to the
head loss caused by a section of
the pipe whose length is the
equivalent length.
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Total head loss (general)