Optimal design of curved and bifurcated flow pipes
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Pacific Center of Thermal-Fluids Engineering.
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The present study focuses on flows in
three-dimensional curved and bifurcated pipes. Computational fluid dynamics is used to investigate fluid flow through these pipes. The occurrence of recirculation due to
curvature ratio, bend angle, diameter, length, and bifurcation level is studied and the flow resistance is computed. The validity of Dean’s relation for the enhancement of flow resistance in curved pipes is studied numerically.
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R. Teixeira, A. Serrenho, A. H. Reis, A. F. Miguel, M. Aydin (2005) Optimal design of curved and bifurcated flow pipes. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Transport Phenomena (ISTP-16), Prague, 6 pag