Basic research on cerebral aneurysms using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations has recently progressed. We describe a clinical case with the use of CFD simulations. A 76-year-old woman had an unruptured anterior communicating artery aneurysm associated with pseudo-occlusion of the internal carotid artery (ICA). Pre-operative CFD simulations demonstrated that carotid artery stenting (...

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code has been combined with a genetic algorithm (GA) to perform a two-dimensional drag minimization on the base region of tractor trailers. Few studies have been conducted with CFD driven by a GA due to extensive run times and the general non autonomous characteristics of meshing a suitable CFD geometry. This study solves the two-dimensional Reynolds-average...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been widely used in pressure drop/hydraulic loss calculations in many industries, including the aerospace and turbo-machinery industry as well as in the nuclear power industry. During the past 30 years, a significant amount of time and effort have been spent in benchmarking the CFD tools and models against test data in aerospace and turbo-machinery industr...

Wind catchers are traditional natural ventilation systems attached to buildings in order to ventilate the indoor air. The most common type of wind catcher is four sided one which is capable to catch wind in all directions. CFD simulation is the perfect way to evaluate the wind catcher performance. The accuracy of CFD results is the issue of concern, so sensitivity analyses is crucial to find ou...

Pilot-in-the-Loop CFD Method Development Progress Report (CDRL A001) Progress Report for Period: January 21, 2016 to April 20, 2016 PI: Joseph F. Horn 814-865-6434 [email protected] Performing Organization: The Pennsylvania State University Department of Aerospace Engineering 231C Hammond Building University Park, PA 16802 Attn: Joseph F. Horn Phone: 814-865-6434, Fax: 814-865-7092 Email: joehorn...

This paper presents the results of the application of CFD to ventilation calculations at Yucca Mountainusing MULTIFLUX. Seven cases were selected to study the effect of the heat transport coefficient onthe drift wall temperature distribution. It was concluded that variable heat transport coefficients suchas those given by the differential–parameter CFD used in MULTIFLUX are consider...

Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) surrogates are developed to efficiently compute the aerodynamic heating and unsteady pressure loads for a structurally and thermally compliant skin panel in hypersonic flow. In order to minimize the computational overhead, the surrogates are constructed using steady-state CFD flow analysis. Unsteady terms in the aerodynamic pressure are incorporated using pisto...

In this work a model to estimate the efficiency of natural ventilation in a commercial twin-span greenhouse is presented. A numerical simulation approach was adopted using the theory of three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD). With this approach, it was able to generate three-dimensional patterns for temperature and airspeed inside the greenhouse, using specific boundary conditions...

As the capabilities of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to model full aircraft config­ urations improve, and the speeds of massively parallel machines increase, it is expected that CFD simulations will be used more and more to steer or in some cases even replace traditional flight test analyses. The mission of the US Air Force SEEK EAGLE office is to clear any new weapon con­ figurations and ...

Observations regarding the use of advanced computational uid dynamics (CFD) analysis, sensitivity analysis (SA), and design codes in gradient-based multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) re ect our perception of the interactions required of CFD and our experience in recent aerodynamic design optimization studies using CFD. Sample results from these latter studies are summarized for convent...