Modern manufacturing methods enable screw compressors to be constructed to such close tolerances that full 3-D numerical calculation of the heat and fluid flow through them is required to obtain the maximum possible improvements in their design. An independent stand-alone CAD-CFD interface program has therefore been developed by the authors in order to generate a numerical grid for this purpose...

When a positively buoyant vertical fluid jet directed downwards from its source impinges on a horizontal flat surface, the resulting flow is termed an “impinging fountain”. These flows arise in a number of practical situations, for example, in gas metal arc welding (GMAW). Developing a description of this flow presents the researcher with a number of challenges and forms the motivation for this...

The need of aeroacoustically highefficient fans requires more detailed investigations of three dimensional effects and separated flow analysis. Comprehensive studies and code validation for fans have shown, that further development especially for the influence of sweep -is necessary. Therefore, two different Navier-Stokes Codes, a lifting surface code and a classical method for 3-D cascade flow...

Analysis tools are needed to guide the development and evaluate the performance of multigrid solvers for the fluid flow equations. Classical analysis tools, such as local mode analysis, often fail to accurately predict performance. Two-grid analysis tools, herein referred to as Idealized Coarse Grid and Idealized Relaxation iterations, have been developed and evaluated within a pilot multigrid ...

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) in the hypersonic flow regime offers valuable information to determine physical models in need of improvement and to assist in design of vehicles and flight experiments. Here we present results of UQ analysis based on polynomial chaos method to determine flowfield and surface heat flux uncertainty under typical blunt-body re-entry conditions. The NASA Langley cod...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a fundamental step for the study and optimization of electricity production. Indeed, current power plants use water as a mean of convective heat transfer. Consequently, the simulation, analysis and visualization of fluid dynamics phenomena are of great importance for the energy industry. Electricite de France (EDF), being one of the biggest electricity prod...

UNLABELLED Real-time flow simulation is crucial for emergency management in buildings, such as fire and accidental or intentional release of chemical/biological agents (contaminants). The simulation results can then be used to impose proper measures to minimize casualties. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is accurate, but too time-consuming. Nodal models are fast, but not informative. To obta...

In this paper computational analysis of circulating fluidized bed combustion using the fluent software is analysed. This work is concerned about gas–solid two-phase mixtures flowing upwards through the fast beds. The procedures studied are applicable to all types of fluidized-bed boilers. The type of information resulting from various ways of analyzing the pressure and temperature in fluidized ...

Recent enhancements to the development of CFD-based unsteady aerodynamic and aeroelastic reduced-order models (ROMs) are presented. These enhancements include the simultaneous application of structural modes as CFD input, static aeroelastic analysis using a ROM, and matched-point solutions using a ROM. The simultaneous application of structural modes as CFD input enables the computation of the ...