Applied Mechanics Commons^™

Development Of A Predictive Model For Bulk-Flow Through A Porous Polymer Membrane Tube, Aaron Robert Meles

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

While extensive mathematical and numerical work has been done in terms of modeling the mainstream flow in a tube with porous walls, very little has been done experimentally to confirm these various solutions, and what has been done has focused on large sintered metal tubes used in nuclear power applications. Furthermore, these solutions are quite mathematically complex and arduous to implement. In this work, the mainstream flow through a porous polymer membrane tube is examined and a method for calculating the through-membrane flow rate and axial pressure drop is presented. Two membrane tubes are tested experimentally, and a simple set …