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A Numerical Simulation of the Filling Process in the Pressure Bottle

Karel Fraňa 1, Shehab Hassan Attia 1, and Frank Otremba 2
1. Department of power engineering, Technical university of Liberec, Liberec, Czech Republic
2. Gefahrguttanks und Unfallmechanik, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung, Berlin, Germany

Abstract— A filling process of the pressure bottle used for the air storage was investigated by numerical simulations. During the filling process, the temperature was rising up to maximal value and after that started to decline. The good match was found between experimental and numerical results. In order to reproduce the experimental conditions, the process of the filling bottle was controlled by the pressure which varied in time. This filling strategy influenced furthermore the mass flow rate and the air flow velocity. Because of the geometrical symmetry, the simulation was calculated as an axisymmetric problem. 

Index Terms— filling process, pressure bottle, temperature peak, turbulent flows

Cite: Karel Fraňa, Shehab Hassan Attia, and Frank Otremba, "A Numerical Simulation of the Filling Process in the Pressure Bottle," International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 558-563, September 2018. DOI: 10.18178/ijmerr.7.5.558-563