Abstract
Storm sewer systems may experience storm geysers, raising concerns about public safety. A thorough understanding of the influential factors of the geysers is essential yet insufficiently investigated in the literature. A transient three-dimensional (3D) computational fluid dynamics model incorporating the volume of fluid method is used to investigate the geyser formation mechanism and hydrodynamics. An air pocket in a pressurized pipe travels with water past a vertical shaft, producing an air-releasing geyser and, subsequently, a rapid-filling geyser. If the air pocket in the pipe is too small or if it moves too quickly, a hybrid geyser might be set off when the air-releasing and rapid-filling geysers overlap. A hybrid geyser has unique properties since it combines an air-releasing geyser and a rapid-filling geyser. The presence of hybrid geysers lowers the height of air-releasing and rapid-filling geysers. Equations are proposed for predicting the heights of the geysers with errors of about 15%. The height of the air-releasing geyser increases with the water level in the shaft. As the pressure difference between the two ends of the pipe reduces, the height of the rapid-filling geyser increases. The vertical shaft diameter has little influence on rapid-filling geysers, while a small diameter often results in high air-releasing geysers. The effect on the height of both kinds of geysers is negligible when the air pocket volume is large enough. The findings can be used for designing storm geyser mitigation measures.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
China Scholarship Council
Subject
Condensed Matter Physics,Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Mechanics of Materials,Computational Mechanics,Mechanical Engineering
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3 articles.
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