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LongquestionAforMENG20600

2021

Inmanysituationsitisdesirabletopassafluidthroughabedofparticles

sothattheweightoftheparticlesiswhollysupported.Whenthegas

comesfromapointsourceatasucientrate,thenaconicalregionforms

wheretheparticles’weightisfullysupported,surroundedbytherestof

thebedwheretheparticlesareunsupportedasiftherewasnogasflow,

asshowninfigure1.Youhavetodesignapieceofequipmentwhereall

theparticlesatthesurfaceofthebedaresupportedbutthenumberofair

ventsiskepttoaminimum.Inordertodothis,youneedtocarryout

dimensionalanalysisinordertodeterminethegeometricalratioofthe

supportedregion,D/L.

Youmayassumethat:

•theparticlesaresphericalwithadensity⇢andadiameterd;

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•thefluidisNewtonian;

•thegasflowintothebedisapointsource(i.e.youdonotneedto

includetheholediameter);

•therearenothermale↵ects.

Toanswerthisquestion,youshould:

a.performadimensionalanalysisonthissituationandderivethedi-

mensionlessgroupsonwhichD/Lwilldepend;

b.showwhyitisnotpossibletobuildadynamically-similarscaled

modelofthissituationifthesamefluidisused.

Thelevelofmarksawardedwilldependonthecompletenessofthean-

sweraswellasthecorrectnessoftheworking:forexample,areadditional

assumptionsdetailed?Arethechoicesmadeintheanalysisexplainedand

justified?

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Figure1:Schematicdiagramofthebedyouaredesigning.Thedarker

greyarearepresentsabedofunsupportedparticles(likealaye