Prediction of fluid-elastic instability onset is a great matter of importance in designing cross-flow heat exchangers from the perspective of vibration. In the present paper, the threshold of fluid-elastic instability has been numerically predicted by the simulation of incompressible, unsteady, and turbulent cross flow through a tube bundle in a normal triangular arrangement. In the tube bundle under study, there were single or multiple flexible cylinders surrounded by rigid tubes. A finite volume solver based on a Cartesian-staggered grid was implemented. In addition, the ghost-cell method in conjunction with the great-source-term technique was employed in order to directly enforce the no-slip condition on the cylinders' boundaries. Interactions between the fluid and the structures were considered in a fully coupled manner by means of intermittence solution of the flow field and structural equations of motion in each time step of the numerical modeling algorithm. The accuracy of the solver was validated by simulation of the flow over both a rigid and a flexible circular cylinder. The results were in good agreement with the experiments reported in the literatures. Eventually, the flow through seven different flexible tube bundles was simulated. The fluid-elastic instability was predicted and analyzed by presenting the structural responses, trajectory of flexible cylinders, and critical reduced velocities.
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March 2013
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Numerical Prediction of Fluid-Elastic Instability in Normal Triangular Tube Bundles With Multiple Flexible Circular Cylinders
Hamed Houri Jafari,
Hamed Houri Jafari
1
Faculty Member Department of National Energy Master Plan,
Tehran,
e-mail: hhjafari@gmail.com; h_jafari@iies.net
Institute for International Energy Studies (IIES)
,Tehran,
Iran
e-mail: hhjafari@gmail.com; h_jafari@iies.net
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Behzad Ghadiri Dehkordi
Behzad Ghadiri Dehkordi
Faculty Member Department of Mechanical Engineering,
School of Engineering,
Tehran,
School of Engineering,
Tarbiat Modares University
,Tehran,
Iran
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Hamed Houri Jafari
Faculty Member Department of National Energy Master Plan,
Tehran,
e-mail: hhjafari@gmail.com; h_jafari@iies.net
Institute for International Energy Studies (IIES)
,Tehran,
Iran
e-mail: hhjafari@gmail.com; h_jafari@iies.net
Behzad Ghadiri Dehkordi
Faculty Member Department of Mechanical Engineering,
School of Engineering,
Tehran,
School of Engineering,
Tarbiat Modares University
,Tehran,
Iran
1Corresponding author.
Manuscript received April 19, 2011; final manuscript received October 27, 2012; published online February 22, 2013. Assoc. Editor: Mark F. Tachie.
J. Fluids Eng. Mar 2013, 135(3): 031102 (14 pages)
Published Online: February 22, 2013
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Received:
April 19, 2011
Revision Received:
October 27, 2012
Citation
Houri Jafari, H., and Ghadiri Dehkordi, B. (February 22, 2013). "Numerical Prediction of Fluid-Elastic Instability in Normal Triangular Tube Bundles With Multiple Flexible Circular Cylinders." ASME. J. Fluids Eng. March 2013; 135(3): 031102. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4023298
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