Numerical simulation of a radial diffuser turbulent airflow
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2007-06-15
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Colaciti, Alysson Kennerly
Valdes Lopez, Luis Miguel
Navarro, Helio Aparecido
Cabezas-Gomez, Luben
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Elsevier B.V.
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In the present work are presented results from numerical simulations performed with the ANSYS-CFX (R) code. We have studied a radial diffuser flow case, which is the main academic problem used to study the flow behavior on flat plate valves. The radial flow inside the diffuser has important behavior such as the turbulence decay downstream and recirculation regions inside the valve flow channel due to boundary layer detachment. These flow structures are present in compressor reed valve configurations, influencing to a greater extent the compressor efficiency. The main target of the present paper was finding the simulation set-up (computational domain, boundary conditions and turbulence model) that better fits with experimental data published by Tabatabai and Pollard. The local flow turbulence and velocity profiles were investigated using four different turbulence models, two different boundary conditions set-up, two different computational domains and three different flow conditions (Re-in - Reynolds number at the diffuser inlet). We used the Reynolds stress (BSL); the k-epsilon; the RNG k-epsilon; and the shear stress transport (SST) k-omega turbulence models. The performed analysis and comparison of the computational results with experimental data show that the choice of the turbulence model, as well as the choice of the other computational conditions, plays an important role in the results physical quality and accuracy. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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radial diffuser flow, turbulence models, numerical simulation, ANSYS-CFX (R) software
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Applied Mathematics and Computation. New York: Elsevier B.V., v. 189, n. 2, p. 1491-1504, 2007.