Development and application of an arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian solver for turbomachinery aeromechanics

Journal of Propulsion and Power

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 642-652

  Ramakrishnan, Kishore ^a,b   Gottfried, Dana A ^b,c   Lawless, Patrick B ^c,d   Fleeter, Sanford ^c,d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c School of Mechanical Engineering

^d Currently XcelAero Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSORS; IMPELLERS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; RADIAL FLOW; VIBRATION ANALYSIS; WAKES;

ARBITRARY LAGRANGIAN EULERIAN; DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS; DOWNSTREAM STATORS; HIGH SPEED CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR; OUTFLOW BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; RESONANT VIBRATIONS; TRANSONIC COMPRESSOR; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS;

FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 67649974980     PISSN: 07484658     EISSN: 15333876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.36068     Document Type: Article

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