Demonstrating the Potential of CFD Transition Modeling for Racing Sailplane Design

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Axten ◽  
Mark D. Maughmer
Keyword(s):  
Transition Modeling ◽  
Cfd Transition Modeling

scholarly journals Convolutional neural network for transition modeling based on linear stability theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad I. Zafar ◽  
Heng Xiao ◽  
Meelan M. Choudhari ◽  
Fei Li ◽  
Chau-Lyan Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Linear Stability ◽  
Stability Theory ◽  
Linear Stability Theory ◽  
Transition Modeling

Osborne Reynolds: Energy Methods in Transition and Loss Production: A Centennial Perspective

1995 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Moore ◽  
J. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Turbulent Flows ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Boundary Layer Transition ◽  
Turbulence Energy ◽  
Energy Methods ◽  
Layer Transition ◽  
Energy Balance Method ◽  
European Working ◽  
Transition Modeling

Osborne Reynolds’ developments of the concepts of Reynolds averaging, turbulence stresses, and equations for mean kinetic energy and turbulence energy are viewed in the light of 100 years of subsequent flow research. Attempts to use the Reynolds energy-balance method to calculate the lower critical Reynolds number for pipe and channel flows are reviewed. The modern use of turbulence-energy methods for boundary layer transition modeling is discussed, and a current European Working Group effort to evaluate and develop such methods is described. The possibility of applying these methods to calculate transition in pipe, channel, and sink flows is demonstrated using a one-equation, q-L, turbulence model. Recent work using the equation for the kinetic energy of mean motion to gain understanding of loss production mechanisms in three-dimensional turbulent flows is also discussed.

Improving Efficiency of a High Work Turbine Using Non-Axisymmetric Endwalls: Part I—Endwall Design and Performance

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Germain ◽  
M. Nagel ◽  
I. Raab ◽  
P. Schuepbach ◽  
R. S. Abhari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Optimization ◽  
Axial Flow ◽  
Loss Reduction ◽  
Numerical Investigations ◽  
Turbine Efficiency ◽  
Transition Modeling ◽  
And Performance ◽  
High Work ◽  
Stage Efficiency ◽  
Probe Measurements

This paper is the first part of a two part paper reporting the improvement of efficiency of a one-and-half stage high work axial flow turbine by non-axisymmetric endwall contouring. In this first paper the design of the endwall contours is described and the CFD flow predictions are compared to five-hole-probe measurements. The endwalls have been designed using automatic numerical optimization by means of an Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) algorithm, the flow being computed with the 3D RANS solver TRACE. The aim of the design was to reduce the secondary kinetic energy and secondary losses. The experimental results confirm the improvement of turbine efficiency, showing a stage efficiency benefit of 1%±0.4%, revealing that the improvement is underestimated by CFD. The secondary flow and loss have been significantly reduced in the vane, but improvement of the midspan flow is also observed. Mainly this loss reduction in the first row and the more homogeneous flow is responsible for the overall improvement. Numerical investigations indicate that the transition modeling on the airfoil strongly influences the secondary loss predictions. The results confirm that non-axisymmetric endwall profiling is an effective method to improve turbine efficiency, but that further modeling work is needed to achieve a good predictability.

scholarly journals State and transition modeling: An ecological process approach.

2006 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamzen Stringham ◽  
William Krueger ◽  
Patrick Shaver
Keyword(s):  
Process Approach ◽  
Ecological Process ◽  
Transition Modeling

scholarly journals Optics of Chromites and Charge-Transfer Transitions

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei V. Zenkov
Keyword(s):  
Charge Transfer ◽  
Simple Structure ◽  
Electric Dipole Transition ◽  
Wave Functions ◽  
Final States ◽  
Matrix Elements ◽  
Cluster Approach ◽  
Electron Wave ◽  
Charge Transfer Transitions ◽  
Transition Modeling

Specific features of the charge-transfer (CT) states and O2p→Cr3d transitions in the octahedral (CrO6)9− complex are considered in the cluster approach. The reduced matrix elements of the electric-dipole transition operator are calculated on many-electron wave functions of the complex corresponding to the initial and final states of a CT transition. Modeling the optic spectrum of chromites has yielded a complicated CT band. The model spectrum is in satisfactory agreement with experimental data which demonstrates the limited validity of the generally accepted concept of a simple structure of CT spectra.

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