CFD analysis of laboratory scale phase equilibrium cell operation

CFD Analysis of Off-design Centrifugal Compressor Operation and Performance

This paper presents some of the results from a Master’s thesis research into the performance and operation of a centrifugal compressor at off-design operating conditions using advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques. ANSYS CFX is the CFD solver used in this blind study to evaluate the ability of modern CFD software to predict the performance of centrifugal compressors operating a...

Determination of Hydrate Phase Equilibrium Curve Using High-Pressure Visual Cell

This study aimed to construct the hydrate three-phase equilibrium curves for two typical Iranian gas reservoir samples using a high-pressure visual cell. To do so, complete analysis of the reservoir fluids was obtained by different techniques of composition analysis i.e. gas chromatography (GC) and detailed hydrocarbon analysis (DHA). Using high-pressure visual cell the hydrate phase equili...

Hardware Development of a Laboratory-Scale Microgrid Phase 2: Operation and Control of a Two-Inverter Microgrid

CFD analysis of single-phase flows inside helically coiled tubes

It has been well established that heat transfer in a helical coil is higher than that in a corresponding straight pipe. However, the detailed characteristics of fluid flow and heat transfer inside helical coil is not available from the present literature. This paper brings out clearly the variation of local Nusselt number along the length and circumference at the wall of a helical pipe. Movemen...

PV3 at the Princeton CFD Laboratory

The scientific activity in the CFD laboratory in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton is centered on the development of advanced computational simulation techniques in the aerodynamic design of modern aircraft, and the prediction hydrodynamic performance of ships. Computer codes based on on both structured body-fitted meshes and unstructured tetrahedral meshes hav...