Numerical Study of an Unbalanced Oil Vane Pump Using Shear Stress Transport (SST) k − ω Turbulence Model

Author(s):  
Ahmed El-Hennawi ◽  
Muhammed Eltahan ◽  
Mohammed Magooda ◽  
Karim Moharm
Author(s):  
Zhao Liu ◽  
Lv Ye ◽  
Zhenping Feng

In this paper a numerical study is performed to simulate the impingement and film composite cooling on the first stage rotor blade of GE-E3 engine high pressure turbine. A commercial CFD software CFX11.0 with a 3D RANS approach is adopted in the study. Firstly, by comparing with available experimental data, the relative performance of four turbulence models for numerical impingement and film composite cooling is studied, including the standard k-ε model, the RNG k-ε model, the standard k-ω model and the Shear-Stress Transport k-ω model. The Shear-Stress Transport k-ω model is chosen for the numerical study as it shows the best simulation accuracy. Then the simulations consist of five different density ratios (1.16∼4.81) and seven different blowing ratios (0.5∼3.0). The results indicate that the cooling effectiveness on pressure side is lower than that on the suction side. The cooling effectiveness increases with the increase of blowing ratio in the study range, but decreases with the increase of density ratio. On the target surface, the average Nusselt number, the circumferential averaged Nusselt number and its peak value increase with the increasing in blowing ratio, but decrease with the increase of density ratio.


Author(s):  
Cale Bergmann ◽  
S. Ormiston ◽  
V. Chatoorgoon

This paper reports the findings of a sensitivity study of parameters in the shear stress transport (SST) turbulence model in a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code to predict an experiment from the Generation IV International Forum Supercritical-Water-Cooled Reactor (GIF SCWR) 2013–2014 seven-rod subchannel benchmark exercise. This study was motivated by the result of the benchmark exercise that all the CFD codes gave similar results to a subchannel code, which does not possess any sophisticated turbulence modeling. Initial findings were that the CFD codes generally underpredicted the wall temperatures on the B2 case in the region where the flow was supercritical. Therefore, it was decided to examine the effect of various turbulence model parameters to determine if a CFD code using the SST turbulence model could do a better job overall in predicting the wall temperatures of the benchmark experiments. A sensitivity study of seven parameters was done, and changes to two parameters were found to make an improvement.


2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yangwei Liu ◽  
Yumeng Tang ◽  
Ashley D. Scillitoe ◽  
Paul G. Tucker

Abstract Three-dimensional corner separation significantly affects compressor performance, but turbulence models struggle to predict it accurately. This paper assesses the capability of the original shear stress transport (SST) turbulence model to predict the corner separation in a linear highly loaded prescribed velocity distribution (PVD) compressor cascade. Modifications for streamline curvature, Menter’s production limiter, and the Kato-Launder production term are examined. Comparisons with experimental data show that the original SST model and the SST model with different modifications can predict the corner flow well at an incidence angle of −7 deg, where the corner separation is small. However, all the models overpredict the extent of the flow separation when the corner separation is larger, at an incidence angle of 0 deg. The SST model is then modified using the helicity to take account of the energy backscatter, which previous studies have shown to be important in the corner separation regions of compressors. A Reynolds stress model (RSM) is also used for comparison. By comparing the numerical results with experiments and RSM results, it can be concluded that sensitizing the SST model to helicity can greatly improve the predictive accuracy for simulating the corner separation flow. The accuracy is quite competitive with the RSM, whereas in terms of computational cost and robustness it is superior to the RSM.


Author(s):  
T Micha Prem Kumar ◽  
Dhiman Chatterjee

In this paper, a numerical study of turbulent flow over the S-shaped hydrofoil at 0° angle of attack has been reported. Here, the flow takes place over concave and convex surfaces and is accompanied by the favourable and adverse pressure gradients and flow separation. Modelling such a flow poses a formidable challenge. In the present work four turbulence models, namely, k–∊ realizable, k–ω shear stress transport


Energy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 144-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Costa Rocha ◽  
H. H. Barbosa Rocha ◽  
F. O. Moura Carneiro ◽  
M. E. Vieira da Silva ◽  
C. Freitas de Andrade

2012 ◽  
Vol 229-231 ◽  
pp. 625-629
Author(s):  
Jing Yuan Liu ◽  
Wen Qiang Cheng

An improved Shear Stress Transport(SST) model, which allows for the compressible corrections, is proposed in this study. Numerical scheme was established by taking advantage of the improved Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) scheme and by applying implicit scheme to the negative source terms of the turbulence model. Hypersonic flat-plate boundary-layer flows and hypersonic compression ramp flows marked with separation, reattachment and shock/boundary-layer interactions are then computed. The comparisons between the computational results, the experimental results and the semi-empirical formulations show that the compressible correction term of the SST turbulence model is the scalar product of the weighted density average of the turbulent fluctuating velocity and the pressure gradients of the average flow field correlation quantities. In addition, for flow with separation and without separation, calculation results of wall pressures, friction coefficients and wall heat transfer rate distributions using the improved model and established scheme agree better with the experimental results than that using the original SST model.


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