Description
Book SynopsisComputational Fluid Dynamics in Practice explores the current and future developments in CFD, with the authors detailing advanced applications and case studies to demonstrate successes, illustrate the limitations, and identify methods for good practice. Designers, engineers, and researchers working in this field of fluid mechanics will find this book essential reading both for new ideas and applications, as well as a valuable source of reference.
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
- The issue of numerical accuracy in computational fluid dynamics
- Detection of multiple solutions using a mid-cell
back substitution technique applied to computational fluid dynamics
- A comparison of a conventional RANS and a lattice gas dynamics simulation – a case study in high-speed rail aerodynamics
- Mesh generation – The Ricardo Philosophy
- The validation of rapid CFD modelling for turbomachinery
- Built environment simulations using CFD
- Using CFD in the design of electric motors and generators
- CFD computation of air-oil separation in an engine breather
- Cavitation in a pressure-activated ball valve.
Table of ContentsAuthor’s Details iv
About the Editor v
Foreword vii
Chapter 1 The Issue of Numerical Accuracy in Computational Fluid Dynamics 1
Chapter 2 Detection of Multiple Solutions using a Mid-cell Back Substitution Technique Applied to Computational Fluid Dynamics 23
Chapter 3 A Commparison of a Conventional RANS and a Lattice Gas Dynamics Simulation - a Case Study in High-speed Rail Aerodynamics 43
Chapter 4 Mesh Generation - the Ricardo Philosophy 57
Chapter 5 The Validation of Rapid CFD Modelling for Turbomachinery 67
Chapter 6 Numerical Determination of Windage Losses on High-speed Rotaing Discs 91
Chapter 7 Computational Fluid Dynamics for Gas Turbine Combustion Systems - where are we now and where are we going? 99
Chapter 8 Using CFD to Investigate Combustion in a Cement Manufacturing Process 113
Chapter 9 Validation of the Coal Combustion in a Cement Manufacturing Process 123
Chapter 10 Blast Wave Simulation 131
Chapter 11 Bulit Environment Simulations Using CFD 143
Chapter 12 Using CFD in the Design of Electric Motors and Generators 151
Chapter 13 CFD Modelling of a Two-phase Mixing/Separation Flow 161
Chapter 14 CFD Computation of Air-Oil Separation in an Engine Breather 175
Chapter 15 Cavitation in a Pressure-activated Ball Valve 187
Authors’ Index 198
Subject Index 199
