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A PRESSURE‐BASED ALGORITHM FOR HIGH‐SPEED TURBOMACHINERY FLOWS
Author(s) -
Politis E. S.,
Giannakoglou K. C.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in fluids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1097-0363
pISSN - 0271-2091
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0363(19970715)25:1<63::aid-fld539>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - turbomachinery , transonic , mass flux , momentum (technical analysis) , turbulence , mathematics , flow (mathematics) , euler equations , computational fluid dynamics , navier–stokes equations , mechanics , physics , mathematical analysis , aerodynamics , finance , economics , compressibility
The steady state Navier–Stokes equations are solved in transonic flows using an elliptic formulation. A segregated solution algorithm is established in which the pressure correction equation is utilized to enforce the divergence‐free mass flux constraint. The momentum equations are solved in terms of the primitive variables, while the pressure correction field is used to update both the convecting mass flux components and the pressure itself. The velocity components are deduced from the corrected mass fluxes on the basis of an upwind‐biased density, which is a mechanism capable of overcoming the ellipticity of the system of equations, in the transonic flow regime. An incomplete LU decomposition is used for the solution of the transport‐type equations and a globally minimized residual method resolves the pressure correction equation. Turbulence is resolved through the k –ε model. Dealing with turbomachinery applications, results are presented in two‐dimensional compressor and turbine cascades under design and off‐design conditions. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.