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Mixing characteristics of a magnetically driven Rushton turbine in an unbaffled stirred tank reactor
Idžakovičová, Kristýna; Haidl, J.; Gebouský, O.; Isoz, Martin
2023 - English
The standard and well-researched stirred vessel configuration comprises a tank equipped with one or more impellers positioned in the vessel’s axis and multiple wall-mounted baffles preventing the central vortex creation. However, particular industries, such as biotechnology, have an increased need for a sterile environment that often results in the usage of atypical stirred vessel configurations. An example of a commonly equipped atypical stirred vessel is an unbaffled stirred tank with an eccentric magnetically driven impeller. However, there is only a little knowledge about the mixing characteristics of such designs. In this work, we list experimental results for both the standard and atypical stirred vessel configurations. Furthermore, we present a CFD model of the atypical configuration. The model is used to calculate its mixing characteristics that are subsequently compared against our experimental results. It is shown that for the liquid height (H) to the vessel diameter (T) ratio H/T ≲ 1.2, the characteristics of both the standard and atypical designs coincide. For higher liquid heights (i) the characteristics of the atypical design decrease dramatically, and (ii) the characteristics estimates based on approaches developed for the standard configuration become unreliable. Keywords: stirred vessel; eccentric impeller; unbaffled tank; CFD; OpenFOAM; experiment Fulltext is available at external website.
Mixing characteristics of a magnetically driven Rushton turbine in an unbaffled stirred tank reactor

The standard and well-researched stirred vessel configuration comprises a tank equipped with one or more impellers positioned in the vessel’s axis and multiple wall-mounted baffles preventing the ...

Idžakovičová, Kristýna; Haidl, J.; Gebouský, O.; Isoz, Martin
Ústav termomechaniky, 2023

Damping of human vocal folds vibration
Radolf, Vojtěch; Horáček, Jaromír; Bula, Vítězslav; Geneid, A.; Laukkanen, A. M.
2022 - English
This study investigates the biomechanics of the end-part of phonation, i.e. the so-called phonation offset, experimentally. This information of vocal fold damping is important for testing and further development of mathematical modelling of phonation. The measurements of the damping ratio, based on high-speed videolaryngoscopic registrations, were realized on a male subject phonating on the vowel [o:]. The results show during the phonation offset a remarkable decrease of vibration frequency of the vocal folds and an increased damping ratio limiting to the value D≈ 0.2. The results for vocal folds’ damping are in agreement with previous measurements performed on humans using different methods. Keywords: damping ratio measurement; phonation offset; high-speed videolaryngoscopy Fulltext is available at external website.
Damping of human vocal folds vibration

This study investigates the biomechanics of the end-part of phonation, i.e. the so-called phonation offset, experimentally. This information of vocal fold damping is important for testing and further ...

Radolf, Vojtěch; Horáček, Jaromír; Bula, Vítězslav; Geneid, A.; Laukkanen, A. M.
Ústav termomechaniky, 2022

Design of the magnetically sensitive hydrodynamic bearing for the experimental rotor rig
Ferfecki, P.; Zapoměl, Jaroslav; Molčan, M.
2022 - English
In a hydrodynamic bearing, the relative motion between the rotating shaft and stationary housing is separated by a thin film of a lubricant. The magnetically sensitive lubricants with the promise of a semiactive control are able to improve the vibration response of the rotor system supported by the hydrodynamic bearings. A design of the magnetically sensitive hydrodynamic bearing is briefly introduced in this paper. The presented experimental rotor rig is proposed to analyse the large range of load conditions and rotational speeds of the bearing. The designed hydrodynamic bearing is intended to test the ferrofluids, magnetorheological oils, and nano-micro composite magnetic fluids. The apparent viscosity of the magnetically sensitive lubricant is altered by the magnetic field generated by the electric coil and thus the position of the bearing journal is shifted. The experimental measurement results show that the rheological behaviour of the lubrication layer with a magnetorheological fluid is significantly influenced by a magnetic field. The raising magnitude of the current in the electric coil leads to an increase in the bearing's load performance. Keywords: magnetically sentivive fluid; hydrodynamic lubrication; sommerfeld number; experimental measurement; load bearing capacity Fulltext is available at external website.
Design of the magnetically sensitive hydrodynamic bearing for the experimental rotor rig

In a hydrodynamic bearing, the relative motion between the rotating shaft and stationary housing is separated by a thin film of a lubricant. The magnetically sensitive lubricants with the promise of a ...

Ferfecki, P.; Zapoměl, Jaroslav; Molčan, M.
Ústav termomechaniky, 2022

Effect of oscillating blade on tonal noise of blade cascade with five NACA 0010 profiles
Šnábl, Pavel; Pešek, Luděk; Radolf, Vojtěch; Antoš, Pavel; Procházka, Pavel P.; Prasad, Chandra Shekhar
2022 - English
The airfoil tonal noise is a well known phenomenon which appears on single airfoils in moderate Reynolds numbers at low angles of attack. It can appear on small aircrafts, fans, wind turbines etc. In thispaper, it was observed on a blade cascade consisting of five NACA 0010 profiles placed in a closed rectangular channel with hard walls when for given conditions, i.e. flow velocity and angle of attack, the cascade tunes to one single frequency. During the middle blade oscillation, the single tone splits up to several tones with lower intensity modulated by the excitation frequency. Thus, the oscillation of one blade suppresses the tonal noise generation in the cascade. Keywords: aeroacoustics; blade cascade; trailing edge noise; tonal noise; NACA 0010 Fulltext is available at external website.
Effect of oscillating blade on tonal noise of blade cascade with five NACA 0010 profiles

The airfoil tonal noise is a well known phenomenon which appears on single airfoils in moderate Reynolds numbers at low angles of attack. It can appear on small aircrafts, fans, wind turbines etc. In ...

Šnábl, Pavel; Pešek, Luděk; Radolf, Vojtěch; Antoš, Pavel; Procházka, Pavel P.; Prasad, Chandra Shekhar
Ústav termomechaniky, 2022

Determination of current floor during mobile robot elevator ride
Krejsa, Jiří; Věchet, Stanislav; Chen, K. S.
2022 - English
In order for the mobile robot to use the elevator, it must be capable to call the elevator in, detect the control panel, select desired floor and to determine what floor is the elevator located. The paper deals with determination of correct floor the mobile robot is currently at using the processing of onboard accelerometer data. Up to 5 relative floor difference the method exhibits over 95% accuracy. Keywords: mobile robot; elevator floor determination; signal processing Fulltext is available at external website.
Determination of current floor during mobile robot elevator ride

In order for the mobile robot to use the elevator, it must be capable to call the elevator in, detect the control panel, select desired floor and to determine what floor is the elevator located. The ...

Krejsa, Jiří; Věchet, Stanislav; Chen, K. S.
Ústav termomechaniky, 2022

Control system architecture for novel experimental microalgae photobioreactor Simbios
Věchet, Stanislav; Krejsa, Jiří; Chen, K. S.
2022 - English
Photo-bioreactors for growing biomass based on various microalgae cultures gains interests nowadays due to have possible positive impact to society because of the potential to serve as an atmospheric carbon dioxide removal (CDR) device, produce food or fuel. We present an overall architecture of a control system designed with focus to keep the photo-bioreactor alive for long term continuous operation without any human supervision needed. To test overall control system stability we design a custom build spiral photo-bioreactor (PBR) with novel hyperbolic shaped illuminated part. The shape of the illuminated part was design with the goal to increase the ratio of spiral part to volume due to the fact that the light is crucial for microalgae to grow. The control system was created from scratch while adopting reliable IoT sensors combined with highly reliable custom build embedded control system including a cloud data processing and storage. As a result we have scalable and reliable solution which is suitable for photo-bioreactors of various shapes and sizes to operate in fully autonomous mode without any human supervision needed. Keywords: photobioreactor; IoT sensors; control system, Fulltext is available at external website.
Control system architecture for novel experimental microalgae photobioreactor Simbios

Photo-bioreactors for growing biomass based on various microalgae cultures gains interests nowadays due to have possible positive impact to society because of the potential to serve as an atmospheric ...

Věchet, Stanislav; Krejsa, Jiří; Chen, K. S.
Ústav termomechaniky, 2022

Wake Behind a Cylinder: An Overview of Spatio-Temporal Aspects
Uruba, Václav
2022 - English
A circular cylinder in crossflow is subjected to the overview study from the point of view spatial and temporal characteristics. It represents itself a typical engineering problem, appearing in practice frequently in various forms. In fluid mechanics, this case is considered to be a typical canonical case, with relatively simple and straightforward definition, but complex and dynamical flow topology. The typical dynamics is characterized by quasi-periodic behavior called von Kármán – Bénard vortex street with a typical frequency expressed in dimensionless number called Strouhal number. The wake flow structure is considered to be characterized by a single frequency and 2D topology, homogeneous along the cylinder axis, very often. The presented paper concentrates on differences between this commonly accepted model and physical reality. Both temporal and spatial aspects of the flow in the wake behind a cylinder are to be addressed. The turbulent subcritical wake characterized by Reynolds number about 5 thousand will be considered, as this situation is a typical case in mechanical engineering applications. Keywords: circular cylinder; wake; vortex; dynamics; 3D structure Fulltext is available at external website.
Wake Behind a Cylinder: An Overview of Spatio-Temporal Aspects

A circular cylinder in crossflow is subjected to the overview study from the point of view spatial and temporal characteristics. It represents itself a typical engineering problem, appearing in ...

Uruba, Václav
Ústav termomechaniky, 2022

Shifted proper orthogonal decomposition and artificial neural networks for time-continuous reduced order models of transport-dominated systems
Kovárnová, A.; Krah, P.; Reiss, J.; Isoz, Martin
2022 - English
Transport-dominated systems are pervasive in both industrial and scientific applications. However, they provide a challenge for common mode-based model order reduction (MOR) approaches, as they often require a large number of linear modes to obtain a sufficiently accurate reduced order model (ROM). In this work, we utilize the shifted proper orthogonal decomposition (sPOD), a methodology tailored for MOR of transport-dominated systems, and combine it with an interpolation based on artificial neural networks (ANN) to obtain a time-continuous ROM usable in engineering practice. The resulting MOR framework is purely data-driven, i.e., it does not require any information on the full order model (FOM) structure, which extends its applicability. On the other hand, compared to the standard projection-based approaches to MOR, the dimensionality reduction utilizing sPOD and ANN is significantly more computationally expensive since it requires a solution of high-dimensional optimization problems. Keywords: model order reduction; shifted POD; CFD-DEM; OpenFOAM Fulltext is available at external website.
Shifted proper orthogonal decomposition and artificial neural networks for time-continuous reduced order models of transport-dominated systems

Transport-dominated systems are pervasive in both industrial and scientific applications. However, they provide a challenge for common mode-based model order reduction (MOR) approaches, as they often ...

Kovárnová, A.; Krah, P.; Reiss, J.; Isoz, Martin
Ústav termomechaniky, 2022

PHYSMOD 2022 - International Workshop on Physical Modeling of Flow and Dispersion Phenomena
Jurčáková, Klára; Kellnerová, Radka
2022 - English
The objective of PHYSMOD is to bring together the community active in physical and numerical modeling of flow and dispersion processes occurring in the lowest part of the atmosphere using wind tunnels, water channels, or CFD models. PHYSMOD provides a forum where the most recent advances in fluid modeling, state-of-the-art in experimental work, and newly emerging research areas are discussed in an open-minded and friendly atmosphere. One of the main purposes is to encourage broader collaboration between researchers and transfer knowledge between the laboratories as well as generations. \n\n Keywords: wind tunnel; atmospheric boundary layer; experimental fluid mechanics Fulltext is available at external website.
PHYSMOD 2022 - International Workshop on Physical Modeling of Flow and Dispersion Phenomena

The objective of PHYSMOD is to bring together the community active in physical and numerical modeling of flow and dispersion processes occurring in the lowest part of the atmosphere using wind ...

Jurčáková, Klára; Kellnerová, Radka
Ústav termomechaniky, 2022

Analysis of vibration of rotors with a thick rigid disc on the overhanging end supported by hydrodynamic bearings and loaded by uncertain unbalance effects
Zapoměl, Jaroslav; Ferfecki, P.; Molčan, M.; Kozánek, Jan
2022 - English
Rotors of some rotating machines consist of a shaft and a rigid disc attached to its overhanging end. Because of manufacturing and assembling inaccuracies, the disc is unbalanced. In general case, the disc principal axis of inertia deviates from the shaft axis (both axes are skew lines) and the disc center of gravity is not situated on the shaft center line. Then the disc inertia effects are the source inducing the rotor lateral vibration. As magnitude of parameters specifying the disc unbalance is uncertain, application of an adequate method is required to perform the analysis. In addition, if the rotor is supported by hydrodynamic bearings, their nonlinear properties lead to rising complexity of the system vibration and to reducing its predictability. In the presented paper, the motion equation of a rigid disc has been derived. The shaft was represented by a beam body that was discretized into finite elements. The stiffness and damping parameters of the hydrodynamic bearings were linearized in vicinity of the rotor equilibrium position. Then vibration of the rotor is governed by a set of linearized motion equations. The fuzzy numbers were applied to consider uncertainty of the disc unbalance parameters. The presented procedure provides the approach to computational analysis of rotating machines with the rotor having a disc attached to its overhanging end and the geometrical, mechanical, or technological parameters of which have uncertain values. Keywords: rotors; hydrodynamic bearings; rigid discs on overhanging end; uncertain unbalance parameters; fuzzy number approach Fulltext is available at external website.
Analysis of vibration of rotors with a thick rigid disc on the overhanging end supported by hydrodynamic bearings and loaded by uncertain unbalance effects

Rotors of some rotating machines consist of a shaft and a rigid disc attached to its overhanging end. Because of manufacturing and assembling inaccuracies, the disc is unbalanced. In general case, the ...

Zapoměl, Jaroslav; Ferfecki, P.; Molčan, M.; Kozánek, Jan
Ústav termomechaniky, 2022

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