Design and construction of an apparatus to visualize incompressible fluid flow in several regimes



Document title: Design and construction of an apparatus to visualize incompressible fluid flow in several regimes
Journal: Revista mexicana de física E
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000431219
ISSN: 1870-3542
Authors: 1
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Institutions: 1Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca, Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca. México
Year:
Season: Jul-Dic
Volumen: 64
Number: 2
Country: México
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico, teórico
English abstract In this work, the design and construction of a didactic experimental equipment to visualize the fluid flow behavior in the laminar, transition and turbulent regimes is presented; as well as the ability to measure and display the respective Reynolds number (Re) of each flow; current educational equipments have limited or null capacity in this regard. The equipment was designed taking into account the basic laws of fluids such as mass, momentum and energy conservation. The analytical calculations were numerically validated using the finite element method (FEM), for which the Ansys software was used in its Ansys® Parametric Design Language (APDL) and Workbench platforms. Solidworks tools for conceptual design and Stratasys Catalist for three dimension (3D) printing were used. Additionally, hardware was implemented for the step of measuring the flow velocity, temperature and Re calculation. The apparatus is a valuable resource in fluid flow visualization since it permits to read several fluid parameters immediately from a display
Disciplines: Física y astronomía
Keyword: Mecánica, elasticidad y reología,
Régimen de fluidos,
Visualización de fluidos,
Simulación
Keyword: Mechanics, elasticity and rheology,
Flow regime,
Fluid visualization,
Simulation
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