Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is increasingly used to study a wide variety of complex Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFM) processes, such as water flow and turbulent mixing of contaminants in rivers and estuaries and wind flow and air pollution dispersion in urban areas. However, the accuracy and reliability of CFD modeling and the correct use of CFD results can easily be compromised. In 2...

Water-based fire control systems such as sprinkler are widely used in providing safety. In addition to following the prescriptive codes without understanding the physics behind, more quantitative approaches such as numerical modeling for evaluating the system performance were carried out for new designs. Note that performance-based fire codes might be necessary for some applications. Numerical ...

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) dynamics in the cervical spinal subarachnoid space (SSS) have been thought to be important to help diagnose and assess craniospinal disorders such as Chiari I malformation (CM). In this study we obtained time-resolved three directional velocity encoded phase-contrast MRI (4D PC MRI) in three healthy volunteers and four CM patients and compared the 4D PC MRI measurement...

1 Abstract The results presented in this report treats the performance of the the AVBP (ver.2.0) CFD-code on the IBM-SP2 parallel supercomputer. AVBP is a cell-vertex nite volume code designed to solve the partial diierential equations that govern the motion of compressible uid ow, e.g. the Navier-Stokes equations or the simpliied set of equations known as the Euler equations. AVBP is able to h...

Different sources of uncertainty in CFD simulations are illustrated by a detailed study of two-dimensional, turbulent, transonic flow in a converging-diverging channel. Runs were performed with the commercial CFD code GASP using different turbulence models, grid levels, and flux-limiters to see the effect of each on the CFD simulation uncertainties. Two flow conditions were studied by changing ...

We present the FlowGrid system, that allows Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations to be executed in Grid environments. Using this system, users can observe online the progress of their simulation by looking at intermediate results, that are visualized in the graphical user interface. Several Grid centers across Europe currently use and validate the system with their CFD computations an...

Flow of a blood analog is modeled through a patient-specific aortic coarctation using ANSYS Fluent software. Details of the patient data (aortic geometry and prescribed flow conditions) were provided by the MICCAI-STACOM CFD Challenge website. The objective is to predict a blood pressure difference across the rigid coarctation under both rest and exercise (stress) conditions. The supplied STL g...

Swimming assessment is one of the most complex but outstanding and fascinating topics in biomechanics. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methodology is one of the different methods that have been applied in swimming research to observe and understand water movements around the human body and its application to improve swimming performance. CFD has been applied attempting to understand deeply t...

The simulation of the turbulent and potentially separating flow around a rotating, twisted, and tapered airfoil is a challenging task for CFD simulations. This paper describes CFD simulations of the NREL Phase VI turbine that was experimentally characterized in the 24.4 m × 36.6 m NREL/NASA Ames wind tunnel. All computations in this article are performed on the experimental base configuration o...

The study presents two novel approaches for gust response analysis of elastic free aircraft configuration using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools. The direct approach involves full aeroelastic dynamic simulation within a CFD run. The hybrid approach involves computing rigid sharp-edge gust responses in a CFD run, evaluating the gust input forces due to arbitrary gust profiles via convolu...