Steady (RANS) and unsteady (URANS) numerical simulations of three-dimensional transonic flow in a high-pressure turbine have been conducted. The results are compared by evaluating differences in contours of total pressure loss, contours of static pressure and wakes. Significant differences have been observed in these parameters, both qualitative and quantitative, which demonstrate that URANS si...

Abstract: Gas turbines are important energy-converting equipment in many industries. The flow inside gas turbines is very complicated and the knowledge about the flow loss mechanism is critical to the advanced design. The current design system heavily relies on empirical formulas or Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS), which faces big challenges in dealing with highly unsteady complex flow a...

Both steady and unsteady turbulent mixed convection heat transfer in a 3D lid-driven enclosure, which has constant heat flux on the middle of bottom wall and with isothermal moving sidewalls, is reported in this paper for working fluid with Prandtl number Pr = 0.71. The other walls are adiabatic and stationary. The dimensionless parameters used in this research are Reynolds number, Re = 5000, 1...

One of the most practically important problems of computational aero-acoustics is the efficient and accurate calculation of flows around solid obstacles of arbitrary shapes. To simulate flows in complex domains, we combine two mathematical approaches, the Adaptive Wavelet Collocation Method, which tackles the problem of efficiently resolving localized flow structures, and the Brinkman Penalizat...

This course material is used in two courses in the International Master’s programmeAppliedMechanics at Chalmers. The two courses are TME225 Mechanics of fluids (Chapters 1-10), and MTF270 Turbulence Modeling (Chapters 11-27). MSc students who follow these courses are supposed to have taken one basic course in fluid mechanics. The lecture notes are also used in the three-day course Unsteady Simu...