Any tiny improvement of modern turbomachinery components require nowadays a large amount of design evaluations. Every evaluation runs time consuming simulations. Reducing the computational cost of the simulations allows to run more evaluations, thus reaching a higher design improvement. In this work, an Nvidia Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) of Kepler generation is used to accelerate the FiniteV...

Impressive progress in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been made during the last three decades. In the early stages, one of the main targets of CFD for aeronautical fields was to compute flow around airfoils and wings accurately. Body-fitted-coordinate grids, commonly called as structured grids, were used in those days. From the late eighty’s, the target was moved to full aircraft comput...

In an effort to improve the robustness and efficiency of mesh adaptation, this work proposes an adaptive re-meshing method that can be used for variety of problems in CFD. It should be noted that this method is feature driven adaptivity and that it does not use strategies such as edge split, edge collapse, edge swap, etc as were employed in mesh modifications [2]. Instead, it defines the ”holes...

This study numerically investigates the vortex-induced vibration (VIV) of an elastically mounted rigid cylinder by using Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations with computational fluid dynamic (CFD) tools. CFD analysis is performed for a fixed-cylinder case with Reynolds number (Re) = 104 and for a cylinder that is free to oscillate in the transverse direction and possesses a low mass...

As an alternative to often costly computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling of a data center (DC), we describe an ultra-low cost solution based on a wired sensor network. We describe the sensor hardware, packaging and cabling in detail, as well as the software components. Our prototype has been in production use for twelve months at the time of writing. This article presents detected air flo...

An innovative computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach is employed to predict the aerodynamic performance of hovering rotors. Two different CFD solvers are applied in different parts of the computational domain: a body-fitted unstructured solver near the blade surface to capture complex geometry and viscous effects, and a high-order block-structured Cartesian solver away from the blade to ca...

Recent advances in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes along with high performance computing hardware made the codes more useful in many engineering applications. For instance, single-phase CFD codes have long been used to predict the fluid flow in fuel channels of a pressurized water reactor (PWR) [1, 2]. Considering the current affordable number of computation mesh is a little below one ...

The numerical simulation of cryogenic combustion is crucial for a better understanding of the complex physics involved in reactive flows of rocket engines and to help to reduce the development cost of these engines. The focus of this study is set on the oxidizer injection and its dispersion through jet dense core destabilization and atomization or supercritical mixing. Specific models have been...

Regulations and customer demands put pressure on rail designers to deliver passenger coaches with comfortable climates. In the past, Siemens engineers spent about four months testing passenger coaches in a climate wind tunnel to validate the design of the heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) system. Now they use ANSYS Fluent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to validate the design ...

As we have seen in the previous lectures, FD are very intuitive but lack flexibility and accuracy towards complex geiometries. FEM solve the problem very effectively, but at the cost of a significant computational burden. As we shall see, the FVM offers a very effective intermediate strategy between the two. In this lecture we shall describe the main ideas behind the Finite Volume (FV) method, ...