Finite element technologies have been applied to fluid dynamrcs problems for some time now. The early work focused on Galerkin 's method and various attempts to improve its stability while retaining its basic character. In the late 1970s a new approach was introduced, namely, "stabili zed methods," such as SUPG and Galerkin/least-s quares. These methods have been applied to many areas in fluid ...

(Abstract • j Turbulent combustion is ubiquitously used in practical combustion devices. However, even chemically non-reacting turbulent flows are complex phenomena, and chemical reactions make the problem even more complicated. Due to the limitation of the computational costs, conventional numerical methods are impractical in carrying out direct 3D numerical simulations at high Reynolds number...

There have been many studies of turbulent combustion flows, however the interaction between turbulent motion and the chemical reactions that occur in hypersonic flows has not been studied. In these flows, the rate of product formation depends almost exclusively on the temperature, and small temperature fluctuations may produce large changes in the rate of product formation. To study this proces...

The energy equation for turbulent flow of fiber suspensions was derived in terms of second order correlation tensors. Fiber motion of turbulent energy including the correlation between pressure fluctuations and velocity fluctuations was discussed at two points of flow field, at which the correlation tensors were the functions of space coordinates, distance between two points, and time.

This paper provides an overview of recent progress in our development of highfidelity simulation of turbulent combustion with detailed chemistry. In particular, two major accomplishments are presented and discussed: (a) As for the computational aspects, it was recognized that many existing techniques to treat inflow and outflow boundary conditions for compressible flow simulations suffered from...

The two limits, “frozen” and “equilibrium” flow share an important property: both are isentropic flows (if we ignore friction or heat losses). This is because, in the frozen case no chemical change during expansion), there are no rate processes at all occurring, the molecules preserving their identity all the way, while in the equilibrium case, in which reactions do occur, their rate is so high...

The objective of this work is to investigate the turbulent reacting flow in a three dimensional combustor with emphasis on the effect of inlet swirl flow through a numerical simulation. Flow field is analyzed using the SIMPLE method which is known as stable as well as accurate in the combustion modeling, and the finite volume method is adopted in solving the radiative transfer equation. In this...

There are many approaches to determine the sound propagated from turbulent flows.  In hybrid methods, the turbulent noise source field is computed or modeled separately from the far-field calculations.  To have an initial and quick estimation of the sound propagation, less computationally intensive methods can be developed using stochastic models of the turbulent fluctuations.   In this paper, ...

The current study presents the results of the aerodynamic noise prediction of the flow field around a NACA 0012 airfoil at a chord-based Reynolds number of 100,000 and at 8.4 degree angle of attack. An incompressible Large Eddy Simulation (LES) turbulence model is applied to obtain the instantaneous turbulent flow field. The noise prediction is performed by the Ffowcs Williams and Hawkings (FW-...