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Numerical simulation of 3D transonic flow in a compressor rotor

This paper presents a new computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code developed at Universiti Tenaga Nasional for the numerical computation of transonic laminar flow in a compressor rotor. The 3D computational code solves the unsteady Navier-Stokes equations (NSE) on unstructured hexahedral mesh by usin...

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Main Authors: Ng K.C., Yusoff M.Z., Yusaf T.F.
Other Authors: 55310814500
Format: Article
Published: Acta Press 2023
Subjects:
CFD
CFX
DFVLR compressor rotor
Navier-stokes equations
Axial flow
Compressors
Computational fluid dynamics
Computer simulation
Laminar flow
Navier Stokes equations
Rotors
Artificial damping
Compressor rotors
Computational codes
Transonic flow
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Summary:This paper presents a new computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code developed at Universiti Tenaga Nasional for the numerical computation of transonic laminar flow in a compressor rotor. The 3D computational code solves the unsteady Navier-Stokes equations (NSE) on unstructured hexahedral mesh by using second-order accurate central differencing scheme on both convective and diffusive terms. Artificial damping terms are added to control the stability of the numerical scheme, and the explicit multistage Runge-Kutta time-integration technique is performed to solve the unsteady NSE. This paper discusses the simulation of compressible flow field in an axial-flow compressor rotor using the newly developed CFD code. The predicted flow is then compared with the results obtained from the commercial code, CFX-5, as well as experimental data; good agreement is found.

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