Scrutinization of flow characteristics through orifices

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Yıldırım, Tuğçe

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Orifices are essential devices for measurement and control of flow. It is important to define the flow field and understand the flow characteristics behind an orifice for the sake of reliability measures in many hydraulic engineering applications. Since analytical and experimental solutions are restricted, a numerical solution is obtained using volume of fluid (VOF) method with the CFD solver, FLUENT, for sharp crested orifices, orifice tubes and slots. The results are compared to the available data in the literature; also a large spectrum of data collection has been achieved.

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Hydraulic engineering.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/19974

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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T. Yıldırım, “Scrutinization of flow characteristics through orifices,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2010.