Airspeed and turbulence measurements were collected in a full-scale swine grower facility. Data were collected in three horizontal planes at eight axial locations from the inlet sidewall. Three inlet slot heights (20, 40, and 60 mm) and two fan stages resulted in six ventilating conditions investigated. The resulting 2x3 x 8 factorial experiment showed that fan stage, inlet height, and axial po...

this paper deals with aerodynamic design of fan and compressor assembly for turbofan engines having arbitrary by-pass ratios. two different softwares were developed in this respect. first, based on general performance data at design point condition, a one-dimensional approach was activated. initial flow passages of both fan and compressor, together with splitter position were developed utilizin...

Chen Liu, Haijun Xie, Jun Xu, Chen Jian*, Ren Dai 2 School of Energy and Power Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology 3 E-mail: [email protected] 4 Abstract: 5 The Gurney flap (GF) is a miniature lift-enhancement device and is usually mounted at the trailing 6 edge of an airfoil. The GF and has been successfully applied to isolated airfoils, multi-element 7 airf...

A comprehensive finite element methodology is developed to predict the compressible flow performance of a non-symmetric 7-blade axial flow fan, and to quantify the source strength and sound pressure levels at any location in the system. The acoustic and flow performances of the fan are predicted simultaneously using a computational aero-acoustic technique combining transient flow analysis and n...

Turbulent dispersion of passive scalar quantities has been extensively studied in wind tunnel settings, where the flow is carefully conditioned using flow straighteners and grids. Much less is known about turbulent dispersion in the "unconditioned" flows generated by fans that are ubiquitous in indoor environments, despite the importance of these flows to pathogen and contaminant transport. Her...

This study experimentally and numerically investigates motor cooling performance. The motor consists of a centrifugal fan, two axial fans, a shaft, a stator, a rotor and a heat exchanger with 637 cooling tubes. The pressure rise-flow rate (P-Q) performance curves of the cooling fans at 1800 rpm are tested using a test apparatus complying with the Chinese National Standard (CNS) 2726. Compared w...