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Direct Numerical Simulation have been carried out for a two dimensional flow in a Lid driven cavity at Reynolds number 5000 and Prandtl number 7 with water as the working fluid. Both the side walls of the enclosure are insulated(i.e.…
This paper presents numerical investigations of flow-acoustic resonances in deep and inclined cavities using wall-resolved large-eddy simulations. A cavity with $D/L = 2.632$ is subjected to ($M_\infty=0.2$ and $0.3$) at three inclination…
We conducted a numerical simulation of ventilated supercavitation from a forward-facing cavitator in unsteady flows generated by a gust generator under different gust angles of attack and gust frequencies. The numerical method is validated…
Droplet impact behavior has attracted much attention recently due to its academic significance and diverse industrial applications. This study employs the lattice Boltzmann method to simulate the impact of a droplet on a hydrophobic plate…
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The airflow in a subject-specific breathing human lung is simulated with a multiscale computational fluid dynamics (CFD) lung model. The three-dimensional (3D) airway geometry beginning from the mouth to about 7 generations of airways is…
This paper shows the CFD investigation of pressure drop and thermal performance of aluminum oxide nano fluid inside square channel inserted a cylinder with and without fin using two-phase method. The constant heat flux on outer wall and…
This paper presents the first high-order computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of static and spinning golf balls at realistic flow conditions. The present results are shown to capture the complex fluid dynamics inside the dimples…
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The article describes the CFD software tool FlowVision (OOO "Tesis", Moscow). The model equations used for this research are the set of Reynolds and continuity equations and equations of the standard k - e turbulence model. The aim of the…
The present work evaluates the effects of three inflow boundary conditions on large-eddy simulations of supersonic jet flows. The three inlet flow configurations considered are an inviscid profile, a stationary turbulent profile extracted…
The effect of flexibility on the hydrodynamic loads and on the flow structures generated on a rectangular foil when oscillating in pitch has been studied. Hydrodynamic loads were measured with a 6-axes balance, and the flow structures were…
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become an indispensable tool in the optimization design, and evaluation of aircraft aerodynamics. However, solving the Navier-Stokes (NS) equations is a time-consuming, memory demanding and…
The accuracy and resource consumption of the four different turbulence models based on the eddy viscosity assumption, namely, $k-\varepsilon$, two $k-\omega$ and Spallart-Allmaram models, in modeling airships are investigated. The test…
Gas turbine combustion chambers contain numerous smallscale features that help to dampen acoustic waves and alter the acoustic mode shapes. This damping helps to alleviate problems such as thermoacoustic instabilities. During computational…
The complex interactions between turbulence and the free surface, including air entrainment processes, in boundary layer shear flows created by vertical surface-piercing plates are considered. A laboratory-scale device was built that…
Prediction of two-phase boiling flows using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach is very challenging since several sub-models for interfacial mass, momentum and energy transfer in such flows are still not well established and…
Investigations of counter-rotating Taylor-Couette flow (TCF) in the narrow gap limit are conducted in a very large aspect ratio apparatus. The phase diagram is presented and compared to that obtained by Andereck et al. The spiral turbulence…