Pipeline Fluid Mechanics 2020
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 17410
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Interests: computational fluid dynamics (CFD); high-performance computing (HPC); multiphase flows; transitional flow; turbulent flow
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Dear Colleagues,
The fluid flow dynamics through a pipe is a basic fluid mechanics problem, which occurs in many industrial applications. This basic geometry is not only found in the transportation of goods and/or materials, such as oil, gas, and water, but also used as a building block to model more complex flows, such as those in teleheating systems, heat exchangers, mixing chambers, product changeover, as well as in biomedical applications. Though simple in geometries, they possess very fundamental yet complex fluid flow physics with practical importance.
For instance, for internal flow in pipes, a curvature may cause a dean flow, and/or with internal perturbation/friction, the flow may undergo laminar to turbulent transition. This significantly alters the pressure head loss, mixing, as well as wall heat transfer. Alternatively, a multiphase or an aggressive fluid flow inside a pipe may cause fluid-induced vibration and/or corrosion, pipe failure, and, as a consequence, an environmental hazard. Flow around the pipelines may also cause vortex-induced vibrations and affect other nearby pipes and infrastructure.
This Special Issue is dedicated to different fundamental aspects of “Pipeline Fluid Mechanics” along with their applications to engineering problems. The current Special Issue invites all original experimental, statistical, analytical and computational fluid dynamic research works in the field. This research topic also welcomes related novel inter-/multidisciplinary works in the emerging areas of mechanical, chemical, process, and energy engineering.
Prof. Dr. Mostafa Safdari Shadloo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Pipeline engineering
- Pipeline fluid transport
- Fluid-induced vibration (FIV)
- Vortex-induced vibration (VIV)
- Multiphase flow
- Offshore engineering
- Flow hydrodynamics
- Pipeline slug flow and fatigue
- Pipeline heat transfer
- Waste and hazard prevention
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