Dynamic flow losses in the suction chamber are a significant factor in reducing screw compressor efficiency but can only be roughly estimated in compressor design due to the simplified methods of analysis used to account for them. Today, Computational Fluid Mechanics analysis may be used to estimate velocity, pressure, temperature and concentration fields within a screw compressor far more accu...

It is becoming a popular practice for architects and HVAC engineers to simulate airflows in and around buildings by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods in order to predict indoor and outdoor environment. However, many CFD programs are crippled by a historically poor and inefficient user interface system, particularly for users with little training in numerical simulation. This investigat...

Three models of different stent designs implanted in a cerebral aneurysm, originating from the Virtual Intracranial Stenting Challenge '07, are meshed and the flow characteristics simulated using commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software in order to investigate the effects of non-Newtonian viscosity and pulsatile flow. Conventional mass inflow and wall shear stress (WSS) output are...

This paper presents a means for reducing the torque variation during the revolution of a vertical-axis water turbine (VAWaterT) by increasing the blade number. For this purpose, twodimensional CFD analyses have been performed on a straight-bladed Darrieus-type rotor. After describing the computational model and the relative validation procedure, a complete campaign of simulations, based on full...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applications are “highly parallelizable” and can be distributed across a cluster of computers. However, because computation time can vary with the distributed part (mesh), the system loads are unpredictable and processors can have widely different computation speeds. Load balancing (and thus computational efficiency) across a heterogeneous cluster of processor...

This paper proposes an effective numerical methodology to analyze the mechanism of the separation of an inserted type of solid rocket booster from a supersonic air breathing engine vehicle having a conical intake. Unlike the previous computational fluid dynamic (CFD) approach, present work constructs a compacted model capable to reduce the computational time definitely. The dynamics of vehicle ...

In this paper, design, fabrication and coupled multifield analysis of hollow out-of-plane silicon microneedle array with piezoelectrically actuated microfluidic device for transdermal drug delivery (TDD) applications is presented. The fabrication process of silicon microneedle array is first done by series of combined isotropic and anisotropic etching processes using inductively coupled plasma ...

A pressure-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code is employed to calculate the flow field and rotordynamic forces in a whirling, grooved liquid annular seal. To validate the capabilities of the CFD code for this class of problems, comparisons of basic fluid dynamic parameters are made to three-dimensional laser Doppler anemometer (LDA) measurements for a spinning, centered grooved seal. ...

In this work the dynamic flow as well as the particle motion and deposition in a commercial dry powder inhaler, DPI (i.e., Turbuhaler) is described using computational fluid dynamics, CFD. The dynamic flow model presented here is an extension of a steady flow model previously described in Milenkovic et al. (2013). The model integrates CFD simulations for dynamic flow, an Eulerian-fluid/Lagrangi...

Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) plays an important role in a broad variety of phenomena in nature and technology and is of special interest in the fields of shockturbulence interaction, supersonic aerodynamic flows, and inertial and magneto-inertial fusion. The instability develops when a shock refracts an interface between two fluids with different values of the acoustic impedance, and RMI...