EUTRANS system is a telephone speech input translation prototype capable of translating telephone calls from one language to another. It assumes a human to human communication , each one speaking a different language, assisted by a system with translation capabilities. The prototype has been developed as a demonstrator for the Eu-ropean project with the same name. EUTRANS achieves a response ti...

This paper presents a recent numerical study conducted by researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on a point absorber wave energy conversion (WEC) system using a Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS)-based Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method. The device we studied was a two-body floating-point absorber (FPA) that operates predominantly in heave and generates energy from t...

A review of existing basic turbulence modeling approaches reveals the need for the development of unified turbulence models which can be used continuously as filter density function (FDF) or probability density function (PDF) methods, large eddy simulation (LES) or Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) methods. It is then shown that such unified stochastic and deterministic turbulence models c...

Numerical simulations are performed using a Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) flow solver for a circulation control airfoil. 2D and 3D simulation results are compared to a circulation control wind tunnel test conducted at the NASA Langley Basic Aerodynamics Research Tunnel (BART). The RANS simulations are compared to a low blowing case with a jet momentum coefficient, Cμ, of 0.047 and a hi...

Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) models represent the workhorse for studying turbulent flows in industrial applications. Such single-point turbulence models have limitations in accounting for the influence of the non-local physics and flow history on the evolution of the turbulent flow. In this context, we investigate the sensitivity inherent to single-point models due to their characteri...

Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) methods often cannot predict shock/turbulence interaction correctly. This may be because RANS models do not account for the unsteady motion of the shock wave that is inherent in these interactions. Previous work proposed a shock-unsteadiness correction that significantly improves prediction of turbulent kinetic energy amplification across a normal shock in...

ARIANE-78.4 is a computer system designed to o f fe r an adequate environment for construct ing machine t rans la t ion programs, for running them, and for (humanly) rev is ing the rough t rans la t ions produced by the computer. ARIANE-78 has been operat iona l at GETA for more than 4 years now. This paper refers to version 4. I t has been used for a number of appl icat ions (russian and japan...

Turbulence-resolving simulations of wall-bounded flows at high Reynolds numbers are presently unattainable due to the need to resolve fully the energy-carrying eddies in the near-wall region. Hybrid Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes/large-eddy simulations (RANS/LES), in which the nearwall eddies are modelled in a Reynolds-averaged sense, provide a cost-saving alternative. However previous attempt...

The numerical flow prediction of highly complex flow systems, such as the aerothermal flow through an entire aircraft gas turbine engine, requires the application of multiple specialized flow solvers, which have to run simultaneously in order to capture unsteady multicomponent effects. The different mathematical approaches of different flow solvers, especially large eddy simulation (LES) and Re...

Ñ Large-Eddy Simulation of In-Cylinder Flows Ñ Advances in physical models, numerical methods, and computational power together have brought large-eddy simulation (LES) to the point where it warrants serious consideration for computing in-cylinder turbulent flows. This article includes: a discussion of LES and how it differs from Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) modeling; motivation for t...