Computational Fluid Dynamics in Practice

Computational 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.

Author’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

Norman Rhodes is the author of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Practice, published by Wiley.