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| Author(s): |
Bruno Abdalla de Souza
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Química |
| Defense date: | 2009-12-18 |
| Examining board members: |
José Roberto Nunhez;
Efraim Cekinski;
Leonardo Machado da Rosa
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| Advisor: | José Roberto Nunhez; Everton Moraes Matos |
| Abstract | |
This work presents a fluid dynamic model for the simulation of the dispersion of miscible effluents in river sections of irregular geometry. Due to the irregular geometry, the equations of mass and momentum conservation are described in a generalized coordinate system. Using known coordinates (points) of each riverbank, it was used a modified Cubic Spline Method to find the smoother functions to fit these known points. These functions make possible to obtain the streamlines and then using the principle of orthogonality, the potential lines were estimated. So the mesh is formed by points obtained with the intersection of the potential lines and the streamlines. Despite the irregularity of the geometry, the variables do not usually present high gradients and, for this reason, it is not necessary to use a complex turbulence model for this study. Therefore, a zero-order turbulence model was chosen to account for turbulence. The equations for mass and momentum conservation were discretized using the Finite Volume Method. The results show that the model is satisfactory to obtain the effluent velocity and concentration for river sections with irregular geometry. Moreover, it was successfully predicted the influence in the effluent concentration profile of the variations of the river flow, the diffusion coefficient of the effluent in water, the effluent concentration discarded at the riverbank, the area affected by effluent emission and the region of effluent emission (AU) | |