Numerical Investigations on Fluid Flow through Porous Media and Empirical Correlation for Pressure Drop

8 Pages Posted: 19 Dec 2019 Last revised: 27 Jul 2020

Date Written: May 17, 2019

Abstract

This paper presents a numerical investigation on the effect of parameters like bed to particle diameter ratio, shape of the porous material, porosity and particle diameter by which the porous medium has been made on pressure drop. And the direct empirical correlations for the same are established. Core and annulus are the two shapes of porous medium considered for investigation which are more popular in literature. It is observed that all the three parameters show a positive effect i.e reduction in pressure drop when their values are increased. Further investigation shows that there is a critical bed to particle diameter ratio beyond which the effect of shape of the porous medium on pressure drop is negligible.

Keywords: correlations, pressure drop. Porosity

Suggested Citation

Mohan Reddy, Siva Murali and Kulkarni, Venkatesh M., Numerical Investigations on Fluid Flow through Porous Media and Empirical Correlation for Pressure Drop (May 17, 2019). Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Science & Technologies For Engineering Systems (ICETSE-2019), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3506573 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3506573

Siva Murali Mohan Reddy (Contact Author)

Sapthagiri College of Engineering ( email )

Bangalore
India

Venkatesh M. Kulkarni

VTU Centre ( email )

kalaburgi
India

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