Aerodynamic Design of Turbomachinery Cascades Using an Enhanced Time-Marching Finite Volume Method

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 537-546

  Pascoa J C ^a   Mendes, A C ^a   Gato, L M C ^b,c   Elder, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite volume; Inverse method; Time marching

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPRESSORS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GEOMETRY; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; VELOCITY;

FLOW ANALYSIS; INVERSE METHOD; LIMITER THEORY; TIME-MARCHING;

CASCADES (FLUID MECHANICS);

EID: 11144292158     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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