TY - JOUR N2 - The impact of the transversely-oriented sinusoidal wall corrugation on the hydraulic drag is investigated numerically for the flow through the channel of finite width and with flat sidewalls. The numerical method, based on the domain transformation and Chebyshev-Galerkin discretization, is used to investigate the flow resistance of the laminar, parallel and pressure-driven flow. The obtained results are compared to the reference case, i.e., to the flow through the channel with rectangular cross section of the same aspect ratio. Simple explanation of the gain in the volumetric flow rate observed in the flow through spanwise-periodic channel with long-wave transversely-oriented wall corrugation is provided. In the further analysis, pressure drop in the flows with larger Reynolds numbers are studied numerically by means of the finite-volume commercial package Fluent. Preliminary experimental results confirm the predicted tendency. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/84542/PDF/06_paper.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/84542 PY - 2011 IS - No 4 EP - 466 DO - 10.2478/v10180-011-0027-1 KW - channel flow KW - hydraulic resistance KW - corrugated walls KW - numerical methods A1 - Szumbarski, Jacek A1 - Blonski, Slawomir A1 - Kowalewski, Tomasz PB - Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee on Machine Building VL - vol. 58 DA - 2011 T1 - Impact of transversely-oriented wall corrugation on hydraulic resistance of a channel flow SP - 441 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/84542 T2 - Archive of Mechanical Engineering ER -