Mesh sensitivity of RANS simulations on film cooling flow

Rans Simulations of the Multiphase Flow around the Kcs Hullform

Traditionally the resistance of ships has been determined using towing tank experiments. Over the past two decades increased computational power has allowed numerical approaches to replicate and potentially start to replace towing tank experiments. This work investigates the quality of results that can be achieved using a commercial Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) flow solver, ANSYS CFX ...

Endwall Film-Cooling in Axial Flow Turbines

Simulations of Surfactant Driven Thin Film Flow

This thesis is intended to fulfill the requirements of the Math and Physics departments at Harvey Mudd College. We begin with a brief introduction to the study of surfactant dynamics followed by some background on the experimental framework our work is related to. We then go through a derivation of the model we use, and explore in depth the nature of the Equation of State (EoS), the relationshi...

RANS Simulations of Neutral ABL and Wind

It is known that wind turbines actually operate in the lower part of the atmospheric 11 boundary layer (ABL), the modelling of this ABL flow is an important precondition for the 12 simulations of wind turbine wakes. So, the capabilities of various inlet boundary conditions with 13 related modelling methodologies in constructing equilibrium ABL are validated firstly through 14 cases of a neutral...

Improved turbulence modeling of film cooling flow and heat transfer

Film-cooling flows are characterized by a row of jets injected at an angle from the blade surface or endwalls into the heated crossflow. The resulting flowfield is quite complex, and accurate predictions of the flow and heat transfer have been difficult to obtain using traditional two-equation turbulence models employed with ReynoldsAveraged Navier–Stokes (RANS) solvers. Recently, a four-equati...