LAB#9 INTRODUCTION TO CFD: FLOW

AROUND A BLUNT BODY

Objectives
1. Understanding CFD

What is CFD?
CFD Applications
CFD Capabilities
Advantages of CFD
Star CCM+ Capabilities
Career in CFD

2. External Flow Application: Flow around a Blunt Body

Problem Definition
Computational Grid
Modeling and Methodology: Pre-processing of the problem
Performing the simulation
Post-processing the results

3. Project: Internal Flow Application: Flow around a Cylinder

LAB#9 INTRODUCTION TO CFD: FLOW

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LAB#9 INTRODUCTION TO CFD: FLOW

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Mechanical Engineering

Compressors

Heat Exchangers

Boilers

Pumps

Lobe compressors
Flow through Pump

Flow through Valves

Combustion
Temperature
contour optimized
burner

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Chemical Engineering

Mixing

Drying

Emission control

Multiphase flows

Heat and Mass Transfer

Separating equipment

Waste handling

Spray design
Emission Analysis

Distillation Column

Particle suspension level at 300 rpm

Particle suspension level at 380 rpm

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Civil Engineering

Wind engineering
Building HVAC
Vortex shedding effects on Bridges
Water seepage under Dams
Wave loading against Platforms
Water supply and control
Open channel Flows

Office space HVAC installation

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Advantages of CFD

Low Cost

Using physical experiments and tests to get essential engineering data for design can be
expensive.
Computational simulations are relatively inexpensive, and costs are likely to decrease as
computers become more powerful.

Speed
CFD simulations can be executed in a short period of time.
Quick turnaround means engineering data can be introduced early in the design process

Ability to Simulate Real Conditions

Many flow and heat transfer processes can not be (easily) testede.g. hypersonic flow at Mach 20
CFD provides the ability to theoretically simulate any physical condition

Ability to Simulate Ideal Conditions

CFD allows great control over the physical process, and provides the ability to isolate specific
phenomena for study.
Example: a heat transfer process can be idealized with adiabatic, constant heat flux, or constant
temperature boundaries.

Comprehensive Information
Experiments only permit data to be extracted at a limited number of locations in the system
(e.g. pressure and temperature probes, heat flux gauges, LDV, etc.)
CFD allows the analyst to examine a large number of locations in the region of interest, and
yields a comprehensive set of flow parameters for examination.

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CAD Modeling capabilities of STAR-Design
Creation

Sketching of standard edge types (lines, arcs, spline, etc.) onto a work plane
Creation of standard planar face types (circles, rectangles, etc.)
Creation of standard solid bodies (cylinders, blocks, cones, etc.)
Extrusion, revolution, sweeping and lofting to form bodies from faces
Linear and circular patterning of bodies
Formation of bodies from closed volumes of faces

Input/Output
Import from STEP format
Import from and export to IGES format
Import from and export to pro-cad format
Import from and export to Para solid transmit
format

Manipulation

Standard Boolean operations (unite, subtract, intersect) for bodies

Creation of sub-faces on bodies through imprinting
Other standard manipulation operations (move, rotate, mirror, copy, etc.) for bodies, faces
Full parametric manipulation, i.e. modification of sizes, locations, and other parameters of
bodies

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STAR-CCM+ Mesh Capabilities

Surface Meshing/CAD Repair:

Surface Re mesher

Edge zipper

Surface Wrapper

Edge split/swap

Hole filling

Automatic/Manual Extraction of Feature curves

Volume meshing:
Tetrahedral Mesh
Polyhedral mesh
Advanced Hexahedral (Trim) Mesh
Boundary Layer mesh with prism layer
Local/global setting of Mesh Parameters
Polyhedral Mesh of a
Rushton turbine

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STAR-CCM+ Solver Capabilities

It has an extensive library of physical models:

Steady state and transient

Laminar and turbulent
Newtonian and Non-Newtonian
Incompressible and compressible
Heat and mass transfer
Chemical reaction and combustion
Multiple rotation zones and sliding grid
Free surface flows
Lagrangian particle transport
Eulerian two-fluid model
many more.

Complete Plant Analysis

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Career in CFD
UG Engineering +
CFD
PG Course :

CFD Application
Engineer

Turbulence modeling

Pre-processing

Combustion

Multiphase flows
Numerical methods

R&D
Laboratories

Solver

Gas dynamics
Computational
geometry

Software developing
Industries/Institutes

Grid generation

CFD code developer

Parallel Computing

Code developer in Specialized

areas

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TODAYS APPLICATION: FLOW OVER A BLUNT BODY

Problem Definition
Computational Grid

Check your STAR

Modeling

CCM+ tutorial

Post-Processing