Compressible Navier-Stokes analysis of an oscillating wing in a power-extraction regime using efficient low-speed preconditioning

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 67, Issue , 2012, Pages 26-40

  Campobasso, M Sergio ^a   Drofelnik, Jernej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compressible multigrid Navier Stokes solvers; Energy extracting oscillating wing; Low speed preconditioning

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; DISCRETIZATIONS; DYNAMIC STALLS; FINITE VOLUME; FLOW SOLVER; FREESTREAM MACH NUMBER; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; LOW-SPEED PRECONDITIONING; MODELING CAPABILITIES; MULTI-GRID; NAVIER STOKES; NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER; OPERATING CONDITION; OSCILLATING WING; POWER EXTRACTION; RESEARCH PROGRAMMES; SEMI-IMPLICIT; SOURCE TERMS; TIME-DEPENDENT; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS; WIND ENERGY ENGINEERING;

COMPUTATIONAL AEROACOUSTICS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS); LAMINAR FLOW; MACH NUMBER; WIND POWER;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 84864446713     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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