In real engineering problems like heat transfer from cylinder, cylinder head, etc. and fluid flow requires lots of experimental effort for the analysis. It is very time consuming and costly process. Computational fluid dynamics, is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical methods and algorithms to solve and analyze problems that involve fluid flows. Computational fluid dynamics analysis is nothing but the simulation process which involves heat flow as well as fluid flow on the basis of computer. CFD technique is powerful tool to analyze the industrial and non-industrial application.
Historically, methods were first developed to solve the linearized potential equations. Two-dimensional (2D) methods, using conformal transformations of the flow about a cylinder to the flow about an airfoil were developed in the 1930s. The fundamental basis of almost all CFD problems are the Navier–Stokes equations, which define any single-phase (gas or liquid, but not both simultaneously) fluid flow.
CFD analysis is widely used in industries like any industrial process involves heat transfer and fluid flow. Some of the examples are as follows:
Industrial Application
• Automotive: Aerodynamic analysis, IC engine heat transfer analysis, combustion analysis.
• Turbo machinery: Fans, Compressor, Pump, Turbines.
• Process Industries: Combustion, Gasification, Mixing.
• Aerospace: Wind analysis, shape analysis, speed analysis
• Steel Industries: Optimization of tundish performance, Gas stirring of ladles etc.
• Electrical: Electrical equipment cooling.
• HVAC
• Nuclear
• Marine
Fig 3.1 Prediction of pressure field induced by the intersection of rotor with helicopter Fuselage in forward flight [15]
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...elocity is obtain from the momentum equations.
In pressure base approach pressure is extracted by pressure or pressure correlation equation which is obtained by manipulating continuity and momentum equations.
In density base approach continuity equations are used to solve the density while pressure field is find from equation of state.
In both the approach finite volume technique is used that consist
• Division of the domain into discrete control volumes using a computational grid.
• Integration of the governing equations on the individual control volumes to construct an algebraic equations for the discrete dependent variables such as velocity, pressure, temperature and conserve scalar quantity.
• Linearization of the discretized equations and solutions.
In present study; pressure base approach was chosen because of the flow of air in wind tunnel is incompressible.
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