CFD Simulation of Transonic Flow under Small Disturbances

Author(s):  
Hongbo Fan
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 96-106
Author(s):  
Sergey Aulchenko ◽  
Vladimir Zamuraev ◽  
Anna Kalinina

The paper summarizes our data regarding the energy controlling of the transonic flow. The criterial analysis of the regimes of flow which is formed around the airfoils with an external pulse-periodic energy supply was performed. We selected four criteria, which belong to the class of criteria homochronicity. They are determined by the relations between the period of the energy supply, the rate of gas flow, the velocity of propagation of small disturbances and distances from the beginning or the end zone of energy supply to the position of the closing shock in the undisturbed flow, or the size of the zone of energy. It was shown that the conditions for the forming of the nonlinear regime can be described in terms of the entered criteria of homochronicity. We also obtained estimates for the minimum energy at which the effect of nonlinear interaction is possible, as well as the time of formation of the periodic mode. It was found that the nonlinear effect predominantly has gas-dynamic nature. It was shown that the results of numerical modeling are in agreement with the criterial estimates


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangyang Ye ◽  
Mahesh Dhotre

A high-voltage circuit breaker is an indispensable piece of equipment in the electric transmission and distribution systems. Transonic flow typically occurs inside breaking chamber during the current interruption, which determines the insulating characteristics of gas. Therefore, accurate compressible flow simulations are required to improve the prediction of the breakdown voltages in various test duties of high-voltage circuit breakers. In this work, investigation of the impact of the solvers on the prediction capability of the breakdown voltages in capacitive switching is presented. For this purpose, a number of compressible nozzle flow validation cases have been presented. The investigation is then further extended for a real high-voltage circuit breaker geometry. The correlation between the flow prediction accuracy and the breakdown voltage prediction capability is identified.


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