Computational Study of the Turbulent Flow inside a Waste Heat Recovery System with a 25° inclined Angle Diffuser

Sobhi FRIKHA¹, Zied DRISS^1, and Mohamed Aymen Hagui¹

¹Laboratory of Electro-Mechanic Systems (LASEM), National School of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS), University of Sfax (US), B.P. 1173, Road Soukra km 3.5, 3038 Sfax, TUNISIA

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Sobhi FRIKHA, Zied DRISS and Mohamed Aymen Hagui. Computational Study of the Turbulent Flow inside a Waste Heat Recovery System with a 25° inclined Angle Diffuser. American Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 2015; 3(3A):1-8. doi: 10.12691/ajme-3-3A-1

Abstract

In this paper, we are interested on the study of the turbulent flow inside a waste heat recovery system with a 25° inclined diffuser. For thus, we have developed a numerical simulation using a CFD code. Particularly, we are interested to visualize the temperature, the velocity, the total pressure, the dynamic pressure, the vorticity, the turbulent kinetic energy, the turbulent dissipation rate and the turbulent viscosity. The numerical model is based on the resolution of the Navier-Stokes equations in conjunction with the standard k-ε turbulence model. These equations were solved by a finite volume discretization method.

Keywords:
waste heat recovery inclined diffuser heat exchanger power generator water heating

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