HYDRODYNAMICS – OPTIMIZING METHODS AND TOOLS Edited by Harry Edmar Schulz, André Luiz Andrade Simões and Raquel Jahara Lobosco Hydrodynamics – Optimizing Methods and Tools Edited by Harry Edmar Schulz, André Luiz Andrade Simões and Raquel Jahara Lobosco Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike Attribution 3.0 license, which permits to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work in any medium, so long as the original work is properly cited. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. 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ISBN 978-953-307-712-3 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com Contents Preface IX Part 1 Smoothed Spheres 1 Chapter 1 SmoothViz: Visualization of Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics Data 3 Lars Linsen, Vladimir Molchanov, Petar Dobrev, Stephan Rosswog, Paul Rosenthal and Tran Van Long Chapter 2 Using DEM in Particulate Flow Simulations Donghong Gao and Jin Sun 29 Chapter 3 Hydrodynamic Loads Computation Using the Smoothed Particle Methods 51 Konstantin Afanasiev, Roman Makarchuk and Andrey Popov Chapter 4 Simulating Flows with SPH: Recent Developments and Applications 79 Giacomo Viccione, Vittorio Bovolin and Eugenio Pugliese Carratelli Chapter 5 3D Coalescence Collision of Liquid Drops Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics 85 Alejandro Acevedo-Malavé and Máximo García-Sucre Part 2 Models and Codes in Fluid Dynamics 107 Chapter 6 Eulerian-Lagrangian Formulation for Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations 109 Carlos Cartes and Orazio Descalzi Chapter 7 Lattice Boltzmann Modeling for Melting/Solidification Processes 129 Dipankar Chatterjee Chapter 8 Lattice Boltzmann Computations of Transport Processes in Complex Hydrodynamics Systems 153 Zhiqiang Dong, Weizhong Li, Yongchen Song and Fangming Jiang VI Contents Chapter 9 Convergence Acceleration of Iterative Algorithms for Solving Navier–Stokes Equations on Structured Grids 175 Sergey Martynenko Chapter 10 Neural Network Modeling of Hydrodynamics Processes 201 Sergey Valyuhov, Alexander Kretinin and Alexander Burakov Part 3 Complex Hydraulic Engineering Applications 223 Chapter 11 Interaction Between Hydraulic and Numerical Models for the Design of Hydraulic Structures 225 Angel N. Menéndez and Nicolás D. Badano Chapter 12 Turbulent Flow Around Submerged Bendway Weirs and Its Influence on Channel Navigation 245 Yafei Jia, Tingting Zhu and Steve Scott Chapter 13 Analysis of Two Phase Flows on Stepped Spillways 285 R. J. Lobosco, H.E. Schulz and A. L. A. Simões Part 4 Hydrodynamics and Heat/Mass Transfer 309 Chapter 14 The Influence of the Hydrodynamic Conditions on the Performance of Membrane Distillation 311 Marek Gryta Chapter 15 Gas Hydrate Formation Kinetics in Semi-Batch Flow Reactor Equipped with Static Mixer 335 Hideo Tajima Chapter 16 Study of the Mass Transport on Corrosion of Low Carbon Steel Immersed in Sour Solution Under Turbulent Flow Conditions 353 R. Galvan-Martinez, R. Orozco-Cruz, J.Mendoza-Flores, A. Contreras and J. Genesca Chapter 17 Mass Transfer Performance of a Water-Sparged Aerocyclone Reactor and Its Application in Wastewater Treatment 373 Xuejun Quan, Qinghua Zhao, Jinxin Xiang, Zhiliang Cheng and Fuping Wang Chapter 18 Hydrodynamical Simulation of Perspective Installations for Electrometallurgy of Aluminium 395 A. S. Filippov, A. A. Kanaev, V. I. Kondakov and I. A. Korotkin Preface The Presence of Hydrodynamics in Modern Sciences: Optimizing Methods and Tools “Water is the beginning of everything” (Tales of Mileto) “Air is the beginning of everything” (Anaxímenes of Mileto) Why is it important to study Hydrodynamics? The answer may be strictly technical, but it may also involve some kind of human feeling about our environment, and our (eventual) limitations to deal with its fluidic constituents. As teachers, when talking to our students about the importance of quantifying fluids, we (authors) go to the blackboard and draw, in blue color, a small circumference in the center of the board, and add the obvious name “Earth”. Some words are then said, in the sense that Hydrodynamics is important, because we are beings strictly adapted to live immersed in a fluidic environment (air), and because we are beings composed basically by simple fluidic solutions (water solutions), encapsulated in fine carbon membranes. Then, with a red chalk, we draw two crosses: one inside and the other outside the circumference, explaining: “our environment is very limited. We can only survive in the space covered by the blue line. No one of us can survive in the inner part of this sphere, or in the outer space. Despite all films, games, and books about contacts with aliens, and endless journeys across the universe, our present knowledge only allows to suggest that it is much most probable that the human being will extinct while in this fine fluid membrane, than to create sustainable artificial environments in the cosmos”. Sometimes, to add some dramaticism, we project the known image of the earth on a wall (the image of the blue sphere), and then we blow a soap bubble, explaining that the image gives the false impression that the entire sphere is our home. But our “home” is better represented by the liquid film of the soap bubble (only the film) and then we touch the bubble, exploding it, showing its fragility. In the sequence, we explain that a first reason to understand fluids would be, then, to guarantee the maintenance of the fluidic environment (the film), so that we could also guarantee our survival as much as possible. Further, as we move ourselves and produce our things immersed in fluid, it is interesting to optimize such operations, in order to facilitate our survival. Still further, because our organisms interchange heat X Preface and mass in cellular and corporal scales between different fluids, the understanding of these transports permits to understand the spreading of diseases, the delivering of medicines to cells, and the use of physical properties of fluids in internal treatments, allowing to improve our quality of life. Finally, the observation of the inner part of the sphere, the outer space and its constituents, shows that many “highly energetic” phenomena behave like the fluids around us, giving us the hope that the knowledge of fluids can help, in the future, to quantify, reproduce, control and use energy sources similar to those of the stars, allowing to “move through the cosmos”, and (only then) also to create sustainable artificial environments, and to leave this “limited film” when necessary. Of course, this “speech” may be viewed as a sort of escapism, related to a fiction of the future. In fact, the day-by-day activities show that we are spending our time with “more important” things, like the fighting among us for the dividends of the next fashion wave (or the next technical wave), the hierarchy among nations, or the hierarchy of the cultures of the different nations. So, fighters, warriors, or generals, still seem to be the agents that write our history. But global survival, or, in other words, the guarantee of any future history, will need other agents, devoted to other activities. The hope lies on the generation of knowledge, in which the knowledge about fluids is vital. Context of the present book “Hydrodynamics - Optimizing Methods and Tools” A quick search in virtual book stores may result in more than hundred titles involving the word “Hydrodynamics”. Considering the superposition existing with Fluid Mechanics, the number of titles grows much more. Considering all these titles, why to organize another book on Hydrodynamics? One answer could be: because the researchers always try new points of view to understand and treat the problems related to Hydrodynamics. Even a much known phenomenon may be re-explained from a point of view that introduces different tools (conceptual, numerical or practical) into the discussion of fluids. And eventually a detail shows to be useful, or even very relevant. So, it is necessary to give the opportunity to the different authors to expose their points of view. Among the historically relevant books on Hydrodynamics, some should be mentioned here. For example, the volumes “Hydrodynamics” and “Hydraulics”, by Daniel Bernoulli (1738) and his father, Johann Bernoulli (1743), respectively, present many interesting sketches and the analyses that converged to the so called “Bernoulli equation”, later deduced more properly by Leonhard Euler. Although there are unpleasant questions about the authorship of the main ideas, as pointed out by Rouse (1967) and Calero (2008), both books are placed in a “prominent position” in the history, because of their significant contributions. The volume written by Sir Horace Lamb (1879), now named “Hydrodynamics”, considers the basic equations, the vortex motion, tidal waves, among other interesting topics. Considering the classical equations and procedures followed to study fluid motion, the books “Fundamentals of Hydro and Aerodynamics“ and “Applied Hydro and Aerodynamics“ by Prandtl and Tietjens (1934) present the theory and its practical [...]... Lausanne and Geneva in 17 43 Calero, J.S (2008), The genesis of fluid mechanics (16 40 -17 80) Springer, ISBN 978 -14 020-6 413 -5 Original title: La génesis de la Mecánica de los Fluidos (16 40 17 80), UNED, Madrid, 19 96 Chandrasekhar, S (19 61) , Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability Clarendon Press edition, 19 61 Dover edition, first published in 19 81 (ISBN: 0-486-640 71- X) Drazin, P.G & Reid, W.H (19 81) , Hydrodynamic... chapters and conclusions, and hope that this effort will be welcomed by the professionals dealing with Hydrodynamics The book Hydrodynamics - Optimizing Methods and Tools is organized in the following manner: Part 1: Smoothed Spheres Part 2: Models and Codes in Fluid Dynamics Part 3: Complex Hydraulic Engineering Applications Part 4: Hydrodynamics and Heat/Mass Transfer Hydrodynamics is a very rich... Schlichting (19 51) has been considered an indispensable reference, because it condenses most of the basic concepts on this subject Further, still considering specific topics, Stoker (19 57) and Lighthill (19 78) wrote about waves in fluids, while Chandrasekhar (19 61) and Drazin and Reid (19 81) considered hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic stability It is also necessary to mention the books of Batchelor (19 53),... XIII Part 1 Smoothed Spheres 0 1 SmoothViz: Visualization of Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics Data Lars Linsen1 , Vladimir Molchanov1 , Petar Dobrev1 , Stephan Rosswog1, Paul Rosenthal2 and Tran Van Long3 1 Jacobs University, Bremen University of Technology 3 University of Transport and Communication, Hanoi 1, 2 Germany 3 Vietnam 2 Chemnitz 1 Introduction Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a completely... understand the fluids, and let us help to build the bridge Harry Edmar Schulz, André Luiz Andrade Simões and Raquel Jahara Lobosco University of São Paulo Brazil References Batchelor, G.K (19 53), The theory of homogeneous turbulence First published in the Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics and Applied Mathematics series 19 53 Reissued in the Cambridge Science Classics series 19 82 (ISBN: 0 5 21 0 411 7 1) Bernoulli,... edition, 19 93 (ISBN -10 : 0486602567) Landau, L.D.; Lifschitz, E.M (19 59), Fluid Mechanics Course of theoretical Physics, Volume 6 Second edition 19 87 (Reprint with corrections 2006) Elsevier (ISBN -10 : 0750627670) Lighthill, J (19 78), Waves in Fluids Cambridge University Press, Reissued in the Cambridge Mathematical Library series 20 01, Third printing 2005 (ISBN -10 : 05 210 10454) Monin, A.S & Yaglom, A.M (19 65),... Tietjens, O.G (19 34) Fundamentals of Hydro & Aeromechanics, Dover Publications, Inc Ed 19 57 Prandtl, L & Tietjens, O.G (19 34) Applied Hydro & Aeromechanics, Dover Publications, Inc Ed 19 57 Schlichting, H (19 51) , Grenzschicht-Theorie Karlsruhe: Verlag und Druck Stoker, J.J (19 57) Water waves: the mathematical theory with applications Interscience Publishers, New York (ISBN -10 : 04 715 70346) XIII Part 1 Smoothed... Bernoulli, D (17 38), Hydrodynamics Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, 19 68 (first publication) and reissued in 2005, ISBN -10 : 04864 418 57 Hydrodynamica, by Daniel Bernoulli, as published by Johann Reinhold Dulsecker at Strassburg in 17 38 Bernoulli, J (17 43), Hydraulics Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, 19 68 (first publication) and reissued in 2005, ISBN -10 : 04864 418 57 Hydraulica,... 5 21 525 41 1) Hinze, J.O (19 59), Turbulence McGraw-Hill, Inc second edition, 19 75 (ISBN:0-07029037-7) Kundu, P.K & Cohen, I.M (2008), Fluid Mechanics 4th ed With contributions by P.S Ayyaswamy and H.H Hu Elsevier/Academic Press (ISBN 978-0 -12 -373735-9) Preface Lamb, H (18 79), Hydrodynamics (Regarded as the sixth edition of a Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of the Motion of Fluids, published in 18 79)... studies on Hydrodynamics are described The remaining two titles are Hydrodynamics - Natural Water Bodies”, and Hydrodynamics - Advanced Topics” In the present volume, efforts to improve different methods that allow to understand and optimize different processes and operations involving fluids are presented and discussed The editors thank all authors for their efforts in presenting their chapters and conclusions, . HYDRODYNAMICS – OPTIMIZING METHODS AND TOOLS Edited by Harry Edmar Schulz, André Luiz Andrade Simões and Raquel Jahara Lobosco Hydrodynamics – Optimizing Methods. Classics series 19 82 (ISBN: 0 5 21 0 411 7 1) . Bernoulli, D. (17 38), Hydrodynamics. Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, 19 68 (first publication) and reissued in 2005, ISBN -10 : 04864 418 57. Hydrodynamica,. UNED, Madrid, 19 96. Chandrasekhar, S. (19 61) , Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability. Clarendon Press edition, 19 61. Dover edition, first published in 19 81 (ISBN: 0-486-640 71- X). Drazin,