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Explicit Navier-Stokes computation of turbomachinery flows

Thesis/Dissertation ·
OSTI ID:7016317
A new three-dimensional explicit Navier-Stokes procedure was developed for computation of turbulent turbomachinery flows. Numerical strategies and modeling techniques were developed and incorporated that enable convergent and accurate predictions of high-Reynolds-number flow fields across a wide range of Mach numbers. Detailed stability and order-or-magnitude analyses are performed on the discrete system of seven governing equations. The results of these analyses and corroborative numerical experiments are provided. Conclusions are drawn concerning the influence of system rotation and turbulence transport source terms, grid clustering, effective diffusivity, artificial dissipation, convective acceleration terms, implicit source term treatment and the coupling of the discrete mean flow equation system to the turbulence model equations on the stability of the numerical scheme.
Research Organization:
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
OSTI ID:
7016317
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English