System identification is evaluated as an efficient and accurate technique for modeling unsteady aerodynamic forces for use in time-domain aeroelastic analysis. In the system identification methodology, the constant coefficients of a linear system model are fit to the computed response time histories from a 3-D, unsteady CFD solver. The resulting model of the unsteady CFD solution is independent...

Ñ State of the Art of Multi-Dimensional Modeling of Engine Reacting Flows Ñ An overview is provided of the state of art and future prospects for the use of CFD simulation in engine analysis and design. The aspects covered include geometry handling and mesh generation, numerical solvers, mathematical modeling of key physical phenomena, exploitation of parallel computers and industrial applicatio...

This paper is concerned with the development of a high-resolution and control-friendly optimization framework in enclosed environments that helps improve thermal comfort, indoor air quality (IAQ), and energy costs of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system simultaneously. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based optimization method which couples algorithms implemented in Matla...

An on-the-fly mechanism reduction approach is employed in this paper to integrate detailed chemical kinetics with a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. The reduction methodology employs an instantaneous element flux analysis to identify redundant species and reactions for given local conditions. The emphasis of this work is focused on the numerical study of homogeneous charge compression i...

We have developed a systematic methodology using corpus-based text analysis followed by human review to assign "consumer-friendly display (CFD) names" to medical concepts from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus. Using NLM MedlinePlus queries as a corpus of consumer expressions and a collaborative Web-based tool to facilitate review, we an...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a mathematical tool capable of simulating a wide range of fluid flows. Integrated CFD software has been applied to study the flows in oilfield separators. The influence of inlets, internals, and outlets has been studied with CFD simulations. Of particular value has been the ability of CFD to simulate wave induced sloshing in vessels mounted on floating plat...

It is becoming a popular practice for architects and HVAC engineers to simulate airflows in and around buildings by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods in order to predict indoor and outdoor environments . However, many CFD programs are crippled by a historically poor and inefficient user interface system, particularly for users with little training in numerical simulation. This investig...

The use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become standard practice in the design and development of the major components used for air and space propulsion. To aid in the post-processing and analysis of CFD results, many researchers now use automated feature extraction utilities. These tools can be applied in order to detect the existence of such features as shocks, vortex cores and sepa...

The main aim of the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations is to reconstruct the reality of fluid motion and behaviour as accurately as possible in order to better understand the natural phenomena under specified conditions. Ideally, general solutions can also cover different scales and geometric configurations. Unfortunately, due to expensive algorithms, classic CFD codes most often re...

Natural ventilation has played an important role for many low energy-building designs. It has been also noticed as a essential subject to persistently bring the fresh cool air from the outside into a building. This study carried out the computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based simulations to examine the natural ventilation development of a work area in a public building. The simulated results c...