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http://dx.doi.org/10.5293/KFMA.2003.6.1.023

A Study on the Effects of Turbulence Model and Numerical Scheme on Analysis of the Flow through Airfoil Type Tubular Fan  

Moon, Jung-joo (인하대학교 기계공학과 대학원)
Seo, Seoung-jin (인하대학교 기계공학과 대학원)
Kim, Kwang-yong (인하대학교 기계공학부)
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The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery / v.6, no.1, 2003 , pp. 23-29 More about this Journal
Abstract
Three-dimensional flow through a tubular centrifugal fan with airfoil type blades is analyzed, and the effects of turbulence model and numerical scheme on the results are investigated. Standard $k-{\epsilon}$ model and k - w model are tested as turbulence closures. The numerical schemes for convection terms, i.e., Upwind Differencing Scheme (UDS), Mass Weighted Skewed upstream differencing scheme (MWS), Linear Profile Skewed upstream differencing scheme (LPS), and Modified Linear Profile Skewed upstream differencing scheme (MLPS) are also tested, and the performances of these schemes coupled with two turbulence models are evaluated. The static pressure distributions are compared with experimental data obtained in this work, which shows that the $k-{\epsilon}$ model gives better results than the k-w model.
Keywords
Airfoil type tubular fan; Navier-Stokes equations; k-w model;
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