Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition) ›› 2019, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (9): 1301-1312.doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-019-2512-9

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The influence of temperature on flow-induced forces on quartzcrystal-microbalance sensors in a Chinese liquor identification electronic-nose: three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics simulation and analysis

Qiang LI1, Yu GU2,3, Huatao WANG1   

  1. 1. School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China;
    2. Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China;
    3. Department of Chemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main 60438, Germany
  • 收稿日期:2018-10-25 修回日期:2019-01-09 出版日期:2019-09-01 发布日期:2019-09-10
  • 通讯作者: Yu GU E-mail:guyu@mail.buct.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61876059 and U1501251)

The influence of temperature on flow-induced forces on quartzcrystal-microbalance sensors in a Chinese liquor identification electronic-nose: three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics simulation and analysis

Qiang LI1, Yu GU2,3, Huatao WANG1   

  1. 1. School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China;
    2. Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China;
    3. Department of Chemistry, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main 60438, Germany
  • Received:2018-10-25 Revised:2019-01-09 Online:2019-09-01 Published:2019-09-10
  • Contact: Yu GU E-mail:guyu@mail.buct.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61876059 and U1501251)

摘要: An electronic-nose is developed based on eight quartz-crystal-microbalance (QCM) gas sensors in a sensor box, and is used to detect Chinese liquors at room temperature. Each sensor is a highly-accurate and highly-sensitive oscillator that has experienced airflow disturbances under the condition of varying room temperatures due to unstable flow-induced forces on the sensors surfaces. The three-dimensional (3D) nature of the airflow inside the sensor box and the interactions of the airflow on the sensors surfaces at different temperatures are studied by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools. Higher simulation accuracy is achieved by optimizing meshes, meshing the computational domain using a fine unstructural tetrahedron mesh. An optimum temperature, 30 ℃, is obtained by analyzing the distributions of velocity streamlines and the static pressure, as well as the flow-induced forces over time, all of which may be used to improve the identification accuracy of the electronic-nose for achieving stable and repeatable signals by removing the influence of temperature.

关键词: computational fluid dynamics (CFD), temperature, quartz-crystalmicrobalance (QCM) gas sensor, electronic nose, identification accuracy

Abstract: An electronic-nose is developed based on eight quartz-crystal-microbalance (QCM) gas sensors in a sensor box, and is used to detect Chinese liquors at room temperature. Each sensor is a highly-accurate and highly-sensitive oscillator that has experienced airflow disturbances under the condition of varying room temperatures due to unstable flow-induced forces on the sensors surfaces. The three-dimensional (3D) nature of the airflow inside the sensor box and the interactions of the airflow on the sensors surfaces at different temperatures are studied by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools. Higher simulation accuracy is achieved by optimizing meshes, meshing the computational domain using a fine unstructural tetrahedron mesh. An optimum temperature, 30 ℃, is obtained by analyzing the distributions of velocity streamlines and the static pressure, as well as the flow-induced forces over time, all of which may be used to improve the identification accuracy of the electronic-nose for achieving stable and repeatable signals by removing the influence of temperature.

Key words: computational fluid dynamics (CFD), temperature, quartz-crystalmicrobalance (QCM) gas sensor, electronic nose, identification accuracy

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