This study involves CFD simulation of blood flow through a non-pulsatile, axial pump consisting of a complex multisectioned impeller with rotating and stationary components, and a stationary housing. We use a particlebased method, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), to investigate the effects of varying the impeller blade pitch angle and the gap size between the rotor and housing. Regions of...

The finite element method is adopted to establish the dynamical models of blade, bladed disk and blades-diskshaft assemblies. Based on the analysis of mistuned structure and the dynamic characteristics of model in different levels, it gives the vibration mode distribution of different models. The research shows that the characteristics of the bladed disk and shaft have a huge difference, where ...

Laboratory testing of tidal turbine models is an essential tool to investigate hydrodynamic interactions between turbines and the flow. Such tests can be used to calibrate numerical models and to estimate rotor loading and wake development to inform the design of full scale machines and array layout. The details of the design and manufacturing techniques used to develop a highly instrumented tu...

in this paper, an optimization method for both weight and displacement of composite blades is presented. in   order to hold issues such as aerodynamics and acoustic unchanged, airfoil shape during optimization process remained constant. to achieve the ultimate goal, only blade lamination was changed. in order to achieve minimum weight for each part of the structure, the lowest layers are foreca...

The purpose of this paper is to present the development of a simple turbulence representation suitable for helicopter dynamic simulation, stability and performance analysis, as well as pilot-in-the-loop rotorcraft handling qualities assessment. The frozen field hypothesis and linear approximation are assumed. Components of the uniform field velocity are included as additive perturbations affect...

Wall-modeled large-eddy simulation is applied to a transonic axial compressor rotor (NASA Rotor 37). The simulation results show a significant improvement over fully turbulent RANS in the prediction of the overall performance, mainly by capturing boundary layer transition on the blade. Sensitivity of the result to the end-wall boundary conditions (isothermal/adiabatic walls) and the inflow prof...

Title of Dissertation: Computational Investigation of Micro-Scale Coaxial Rotor Aerodynamics in Hover Vinod K. Lakshminarayan, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Dr. James D. Baeder Department of Aerospace Engineering In this work, a compressible Reynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) solver is extended to investigate the aerodynamics of a micro-scale coaxial rotor configurati...

The present study investigates the impact of unsteady and viscous three-dimensional aerodynamic effects on a wind turbine blade with trailing edge flap by means of CFD. Harmonic oscillations are simulated on the DTU 10 MW rotor with a flap of 10% chord extent ranging from 70% to 80% blade radius. The deflection frequency is varied in the range between 1p and 6p. To quantify 3D effects, rotor si...

The main purpose of this paper is concerned with the sensitivity analysis of main rotor dynamic response pertaining to variation of some relevant system parameters effectively supports the preliminary design of both articulated and hingeless helicopter rotor configurations. The methodology is laid out based on Galerkin solution of partial differential equation (PDE) of main rotor with flexible ...

Title of Thesis: CFD Analysis of a Slatted UH-60 Rotor in Hover Degree Candidate: Yashwanth Ram Ganti Degree and Year: Master of Science, 2012 Thesis directed by: Associate Professor James D. Baeder Department of Aerospace Engineering The effect of leading-edge slats (LE) on the performance of a UH-60A rotor in hover was studied using the OverTURNS CFD solver. The objective of the study was to ...