In the Garu-Tempane area and Tamne River basin of north-eastern Ghana, granitic aquifers supply nearly 80% of annually abstracted groundwater. Rapid and diffuse recharge enters the fractured and weathered Tamnean Plutonic Suite aquifers mainly granitoid, which are the dominant rock types in the study area. However, a greater challenge to the water ...
Wind energy is a growing concern over the present awareness of lethal impact of green house gas emission. This energy source has been proven a promising alternative to fossil fuel based energy. Increased onshore wind capacity and decreased amount of low roughness wind sites has inspired the wind energy researchers to explore the possibilities of wi...
Electrostatic precipitators (ESPs) belong to the most efficient devices for control of particle emissions in the process industry and environmental technologies in general. The operating principle of ESPs, relying on particle precipitation by electrical charging, leads to an enhanced turbulent motion by electrohydrodynamic (EHD) effects within the ...
A local algebraic simulation model was developed, to determine the characteristic length scales for dispersed phases. This model includes the Ishii- Zuber drag model, the lift, the wall lubrication force and the turbulent dispersion force as well. It is based on the Algebraic Interface Area Density (AIAD) model from the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Ro...
In der heutigen Triebwerksentwicklung ist die Verwendung komplexer und zeitaufwändiger numerischer Strömungssimulationsverfahren (3D-CFD) unerlässlich. Dies gilt auch und insbesondere für den Bereich der Verdichterkennfeldberechnung, welcher viele zeitintensive 3D-CFD Berechnungen benötigt. Dabei sind zur qualitativen Beurteilung eines Verdichteren...
This thesis is an attempt to assess some of the effects that electroquasistatic body forces exert on turbulent internally forced convective flows. In order to do that, a stochastic turbulence model is employed, namely, the One-Dimensional Turbulence (ODT) model. The reduced dimensionality of ODT demands a reduction of the Navier-Stokes equations (a...
Sophisticated engine knock modeling supports the optimization of the thermal efficiency of spark ignition engines. For this purpose the presented work introduces the resonance theory (Bradley and co-workers, 2002) for three-dimensional Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and for the zero-dimensional Spark Ignition Stochastic Reactor Model (SI-SR...
In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Modellierung und die numerische Simulation von Strömung, Wärme- und Stofftransport zur Abbildung eines Trocknungsprozesses von Braunkohlepartikeln in einer blasenbildenden Wirbelschicht behandelt. Hierbei wird das Euler-Euler Two Fluid Model zugrunde gelegt und die Beschreibung des Fließverhaltens der Feststoff...
Die vorliegende Doktorarbeit betrachtet den erosiven Verschleiß von Laval-Düsen für den pneumatischen Stofftransport. Dazu wurden 3D-CFD-Simulationen der Gas-Partikel-Strömung auf Basis des Softwarepaketes OpenFOAM durchgeführt und ein kompressibler 2-Wege-gekoppelter sowie 4-Wege-gekoppelter Strömungslöser entwickelt. Zusätzlich wurden die Partike...
