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Fluid flow in an impacting symmetrical tee junction: I single‐phase flow and experimental
Author(s) -
Doherty A. P.,
Murphy A.,
Spedding P. L.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
asia‐pacific journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.348
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1932-2143
pISSN - 1932-2135
DOI - 10.1002/apj.163
Subject(s) - pressure drop , mechanics , dimensionless quantity , reynolds number , flow (mathematics) , inlet , single phase , phase (matter) , two phase flow , materials science , physics , engineering , mechanical engineering , electrical engineering , turbulence , quantum mechanics
Experiments were conducted on single‐phase fluid flow in a horizontal 90° symmetrical impacting tee junction of 0.026 m i.d. The impacting geometry was chosen because, unlike the combining tee, the pressure loss of the system was not amenable to modelling. Various methods of presentation of the junction pressure drop were attempted and a simple dimensionless model suggested based on the inlet Reynolds number and the equivalent length parameter le/d . Copyright © 2009 Curtin University of Technology and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.