Comparison of urans and les CFD methodologies for air swirl fuel injectors

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 3, Issue PART A, 2008, Pages 187-196

  Dunham, David ^a   Spencer, Adrian ^a   McGuirk, James J ^a   Dianat, Mehriar ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT FREQUENCY; COHERENT MOTION; COMPUTATIONAL SAVINGS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOW CONDITION; FLOW CONFIGURATIONS; FREQUENCY RANGES; FUEL INJECTORS; HELICAL INSTABILITY; K-MODELS; PRECESSING VORTEX CORE; QUASI-PERIODIC FLOW; RADIAL SWIRLER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL DATA; STOCHASTIC NATURE; SWIRLERS; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TEST CASE; TIME-RESOLVED; UNSTEADY REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; VORTEX PATTERN;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FUEL INJECTION; FUELS; JET PUMPS; JETS; POTASSIUM; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SWIRLING FLOW;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EID: 69949179245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2008-50278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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