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Close spacing of settling chamber screens
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2016
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Screen separations as little as 0.02 chamber diameters do not adversely affect suppression of mean-flow non-uniformity provided the overall pressure drop coefficient, K, does not exceed about 3.5. At larger K a velocity overshoot develops near the wall boundary layers, which decreases only slowly with wider separation. A simple approximate extension can be made to the theory of Taylor and Batchelor for any number of closely-spaced screens. This shows good agreement with measurements and with low-drag screens predicts perfect attenuation when the overall pressure-drop coefficient is 3.2 or 7.6. Some inferences regarding the effect of close screens on turbulence suppression are also drawn.
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