This paper demonstrates the application of a numerical methodology for a full-scale aircraft impact crashworthiness investigation. We studied the impact of an aircraft wing with a tree using LS-DYNA and ANSYS CFX. In particular, a detailed finite element model of the wing structure was represented as a box structure containing skin, spars and ribs, and fuel was represented as a distributed mass...

the purpose of this study is to improve the aerodynamic performance of wind turbine blades, using the ball-spine inverse design method. the inverse design goal is to calculate a geometry corresponds to a given pressure distribution on its boundaries. by calculating the difference between the current and target pressure distributions, geometric boundaries are modified so that the pressure differ...

This paper considers the problem of predicting the technical and operating characteristics of the propulsion system of a microsatellite created by microelectronic technology. The coupled thermomechanical problem of hydrodynamics has been solved by the ANSYS CFX package. The microengine design has been optimized, the heating of its case in the operating time of the fuel chamber has been analyzed...

Water impact phenomenon of general bow section is a critical event for planning hulls. In this paper, the water entry of several arbitrary bow sections is investigated. For this purpose, arbitrary bow shapes which are introduced by Lewis form approximation are considered. In order to obtain pressure distribution and free surface profile, volume of fluid (VOF) method coupled with finite volume m...

Three different test cases involving free surface flows with surface tension were investigated with ANSYS CFX. Transient analyses were performed in all cases. The three cases were: (1) oscillations of a twodimensional cylindrical rod; (2) rise of liquid in a capillary; and (3) rise of an air bubble train through stagnant water. The mesh resolution, timestep, and solver settings required to obta...