The paper presents various formulations of characteristics-based schemes in the framework of the artificialcompressibility method for variable-density incompressible flows. In contrast to constant-density incompressible ...

This thesis investigates the accuracy and scalability of RANS and LES approaches applied to external automotive aerodynamics. Due to the availability of considerable experimental and computational data available on the ...

This thesis presents an investigation of RANS and LES models for the isolated rotating exposed wheel with moving ground with the aim of analyzing the flow behavior and comparing the results in cost/quality context. This ...

Due to the significant effects on the performance and competitiveness of aircraft, high lift devices are of extreme importance in aircraft design. The flow physics of high lift devices is so complex, that traditional one ...

Effective understanding of gas flow is important to ensure efficient operation of gas neutralizer systems such as those used at the Joint European Torus (JET), which form part of invaluable heating systems for nuclear ...

The uid dynamics community has dealt with a number of numerical challenges since the 1950's. These include the development of numerical methods for hyperbolic conservation laws with particular interest in capturing shock ...

The paper concerns the development of high-resolution methods for variable density flows and the implementation in multi-species flow studies in microfluidics.The high resolution discretisation is obtained by numerically ...

Ducts can be found in ventilation systems, cooling ducts and blade passages of turbines, centrifugal pumps and many other engineering installations. The properties of the flow in ducts can significantly affect the performance ...

This thesis presents the motivation, objectives and reasoning behind the undertaken PhD to investigate the capability of compressible Implicit Large Eddy Simulation (ILES) in simulating wall-bounded inhomogeneous flows ...

A novel multi-scale simulation method developed to describe mesoscale phenomena occurring in biofluidic devices is presented. The approach combines the macro-scale modelling of the carrier fluid and the micro-scale description ...