Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Egg-Shaped Sewer Pipes Flow Performance
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Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Egg-Shaped Sewer Pipes Flow PerformanceDate
2016Citation
Regueiro-Picallo, M.; Naves, J.; Anta, J.; Puertas, J.; Suárez, J. Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Egg-Shaped Sewer Pipes Flow Performance. Water 2016, 8, 587.
Abstract
A Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model was developed to analyze the open-channel flow in a new set of egg-shaped pipes for small combined sewer systems. The egg-shaped cross-section was selected after studying several geometries under different flow conditions. Once the egg-shaped cross-section was defined, a real-scale physical model was built and a series of partial-full flow experiments were performed in order to validate the numerical simulations. Furthermore, the numerical velocity distributions were compared with an experimental formulation for analytic geometries, with comparison results indicating a satisfactory concordance. After the hydraulic performance of the egg-shaped pipe was analyzed, the numerical model was used to compare the average velocity and shear stress against an equivalent area circular pipe under low flow conditions. The proposed egg shape showed a better flow performance up to a filling ratio of h/H = 0.25.
Keywords
Cfd modeling
Egg-shaped section
Sewer design
Shear stress
Velocity distributions
Water pipelines
Egg-shaped section
Sewer design
Shear stress
Velocity distributions
Water pipelines
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2073-4441