A new vertical water tunnel with global temperature control and the possibility for bubble and local heat and mass injection has been designed and constructed. The new facility offers the possibility to accurately study heat and mass transfer in turbulent multiphase flow (gas volume fraction up to 8%) with a Reynolds-number range from 1.5 × 104 to 3 × 105 in the case of water at room temperature. The tunnel is made of high-grade stainless steel permitting the use of salt solutions in excess of 15% mass fraction. The tunnel has a volume of 300 l. The tunnel has three interchangeable measurement sections of 1 m height but with different cross sections (0.3 × 0.04 m2, 0.3 × 0.06 m2, and 0.3 × 0.08 m2). The glass vertical measurement sections allow for optical access to the flow, enabling techniques such as laser Doppler anemometry, particle image velocimetry, particle tracking velocimetry, and laser-induced fluorescent imaging. Local sensors can be introduced from the top and can be traversed using a built-in traverse system, allowing, for example, local temperature, hot-wire, or local phase measurements. Combined with simultaneous velocity measurements, the local heat flux in single phase and two phase turbulent flows can thus be studied quantitatively and precisely.
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July 25 2019
Twente mass and heat transfer water tunnel: Temperature controlled turbulent multiphase channel flow with heat and mass transfer
Biljana Gvozdić
;
Biljana Gvozdić
1
Physics of Fluids Group, J. M. Burgers Center for Fluid Dynamics and Max Planck Center Twente for Complex Fluid Dynamics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente
, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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On-Yu Dung
;
On-Yu Dung
1
Physics of Fluids Group, J. M. Burgers Center for Fluid Dynamics and Max Planck Center Twente for Complex Fluid Dynamics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente
, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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Dennis P. M. van Gils
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Dennis P. M. van Gils
1
Physics of Fluids Group, J. M. Burgers Center for Fluid Dynamics and Max Planck Center Twente for Complex Fluid Dynamics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente
, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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Gert-Wim H. Bruggert;
Gert-Wim H. Bruggert
1
Physics of Fluids Group, J. M. Burgers Center for Fluid Dynamics and Max Planck Center Twente for Complex Fluid Dynamics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente
, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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Elise Alméras;
Elise Alméras
2
Laboratoire de Génie Chimique, UMR 5503, CNRS-INP-UPS
, 31106 Toulouse, France
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Chao Sun
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Chao Sun
1
Physics of Fluids Group, J. M. Burgers Center for Fluid Dynamics and Max Planck Center Twente for Complex Fluid Dynamics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente
, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
3
Center for Combustion Energy, Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University
, 100084 Beijing, China
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Detlef Lohse
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Detlef Lohse
1
Physics of Fluids Group, J. M. Burgers Center for Fluid Dynamics and Max Planck Center Twente for Complex Fluid Dynamics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente
, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
4
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
, Am Faßberg 17, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Sander G. Huisman
Sander G. Huisman
a)
1
Physics of Fluids Group, J. M. Burgers Center for Fluid Dynamics and Max Planck Center Twente for Complex Fluid Dynamics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente
, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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Electronic mail: s.g.huisman@utwente.nl
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 90, 075117 (2019)
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Received:
February 15 2019
Accepted:
July 02 2019
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Biljana Gvozdić, On-Yu Dung, Dennis P. M. van Gils, Gert-Wim H. Bruggert, Elise Alméras, Chao Sun, Detlef Lohse, Sander G. Huisman; Twente mass and heat transfer water tunnel: Temperature controlled turbulent multiphase channel flow with heat and mass transfer. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 1 July 2019; 90 (7): 075117. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5092967
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