Computational Analysis of Suspended Particles in the Irrigation Channel

Abstract

Irrigation channel that is used for bringing water to land in order to make plants grow is one of important thing in tropical country, especially in Indonesia. It has been also a central feature of agriculture for over 5,000 years and is the method in which water is supplied to plants at regular intervals for agriculture. This paper is to analyse the sedimentation process in the irrigation channel in District Deli Serdang, Sumatera Utara Province. The analysis is based on the mixture model in turbulent flow. Computation using Finite Element Method is performed in the domain in two dimensional. The values of dispersed phase density parameter vary from 1100 kg/m3 to 1250 kg/m3. The results have shown that the structure of mixture velocity distribution and the dispersed phase volume fraction.