Entrainment (hydrodynamics)
Topic: Physics
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Entrainment is the transport of fluid across an interface between two bodies of fluid by a shear-induced turbulent flux.[1] Entrainment is important in turbulent jets, plumes, and gravity currents, and is an ongoing topic of research.[2]
History
The entrainment hypothesis was first used as a model for flow in plumes by G. I. Taylor. He was studying the use of oil drum fires to clear fog from airplane runways during World War II.[3]
It became a common model of turbulence closure used in environmental and geophysical fluid mechanics.[4]
Applications
Eductors or eductor-jet pumps make use of entrainment. They are used on board ships to pump out flooded compartments: seawater is pumped to the eductor and forced through a jet, and any fluid at the inlet of the eductor is carried along to the outlet, and then up and out of the compartment. Eductors can pump out whatever can flow through them, including water, oil, and small pieces of wood. Another example is the pump-jet, which is used for marine propulsion. Jet pumps are also used to circulate reactor coolant in several designs of boiling water nuclear reactor.
In power generation, this phenomenon is used in steam jet air ejectors to maintain condenser vacuum by removing non-condensible gases from the condenser.
References
- ↑ Turner, J. S. (1979-12-20) (in en). Buoyancy Effects in Fluids. Cambridge University Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-521-29726-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=x8NqYA97-wMC&pg=PA167.
- ↑ Scase, M. J.; Caulfield, C. P.; Dalziel, S. B.; Hunt, J. C. R. (2006). "Time-dependent plumes and jets with decreasing source strengths". J. Fluid Mech. 563: 443–461. doi:10.1017/S0022112006001212. Bibcode: 2006JFM...563..443S.
- ↑ Morton, B. R.; Taylor, G. I.; Turner, J. S. (1956-01-24). "Turbulent gravitational convection from maintained and instantaneous sources". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences 234 (1196): 1–23. doi:10.1098/rspa.1956.0011. ISSN 0080-4630. Bibcode: 1956RSPSA.234....1M. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1956.0011.
- ↑ Turner, J. S. (December 1986). "Turbulent entrainment: the development of the entrainment assumption, and its application to geophysical flows" (in en). Journal of Fluid Mechanics 173: 431–471. doi:10.1017/S0022112086001222. ISSN 1469-7645. Bibcode: 1986JFM...173..431T. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-fluid-mechanics/article/abs/turbulent-entrainment-the-development-of-the-entrainment-assumption-and-its-application-to-geophysical-flows/D8DCE13EECFB519A552D1CB2961BCAAC.
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