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Multidimensional Transport-Coupled Numerical Investigation Of Non-Premixed Low-Temperature Flame In Atmospheric And High-Pressure Systems, Sudipta Saha
Theses and Dissertations
Gas-phase chemical reactions coupled with multidimensional fluid flow and heat and mass transport are found in various applications, i.e., from conventional engine applications to novel combustion techniques. With the goal of understanding such complex coupling in reacting flow systems, this dissertation work focuses on developing multi-physics simulation frameworks to investigate the effect of multidimensional transport on flame dynamics. This study primarily focuses on the modeling and simulation of low temperature flame formation in i) a canonical experimental setting with counterflow burners and ii) a supercritical water medium (i.e., hydrothermal flame).
In the first part of the dissertation, simulations of the …
Numerical Modeling Of The Fiber Deposition Flow In Extrusion-Based 3d Bioprinting, Dhanvanth Jaya Talluri
Numerical Modeling Of The Fiber Deposition Flow In Extrusion-Based 3d Bioprinting, Dhanvanth Jaya Talluri
Theses and Dissertations
Extrusion bioprinting involves the deposition of bioinks in a layer-wise fashion to build 3D structures that mimic natural living systems' behavior in tissue engineering. Hydrogels are the most common bioinks, in which their viscosity properties are dependent on the shear-rate, such as Non-Newtonian fluids. Numerical simulation of extrusion bioprinting may help study the flow properties of hydrogels and designing improved bioinks. In this thesis, the instability caused by the shear-thinning or -thickening parameter during extrusion is numerically compared with the theoretical estimations. The process of fiber deposition of hydrogels onto a substrate through the single and coaxial nozzle is done …
Examination Of Flow Dynamics And Passive Cooling In An Ultra Compact Combustor, Tylor C. Rathsack
Examination Of Flow Dynamics And Passive Cooling In An Ultra Compact Combustor, Tylor C. Rathsack
Theses and Dissertations
The Ultra Compact Combustor (UCC) promises to greatly reduce the size of a gas turbine engine’s combustor by altering the manner in which fuel is burnt. Differing from the common axial flow combustor, the UCC utilizes a rotating flow, coaxial to the engine’s primary axis, in an outboard circumferential cavity as the primary combustion zone. The present study investigates two key UCC facets required to further this combustor design. The first area of investigation is cooling of the Hybrid Guide Vane (HGV). This UCC specific hardware acts as a combustor center body that alters the exit flow angle and acts …
Application Of Reynolds Stress Model Using Direct Modeling And Actuator Disk Approaches For A Small-Scale Wind Turbine, Randall Scott Jackson
Application Of Reynolds Stress Model Using Direct Modeling And Actuator Disk Approaches For A Small-Scale Wind Turbine, Randall Scott Jackson
Theses and Dissertations
The Reynolds Stress Model (RSM) has been avoided for turbulence closure in CFD simulations of wind turbines, largely due to the computational expense and the high potential for numerical instability. The advantage of using RSM is having access to shear stresses that are not available from two-equation RANS-based closure models like k-e and k-w. Access to the shear stresses will aide in the understanding of how the blade design will affect the wake, particularly in the near-wake region. In this research, the RSM turbulence model has been successfully applied in simulating a three-bladed small-scale wind turbine through a direct-model approach …
Application Of Subjective Logic To Vortex Core Line Extraction And Tracking From Unsteady Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations, Ryan Phillip Shaw
Application Of Subjective Logic To Vortex Core Line Extraction And Tracking From Unsteady Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations, Ryan Phillip Shaw
Theses and Dissertations
Presented here is a novel tool to extract and track believable vortex core lines from unsteady Computational Fluid Dynamics data sets using multiple feature extraction algorithms. Existing work explored the possibility of extracting features concurrent with a running simulation using intelligent software agents, combining multiple algorithms' capabilities using subjective logic. This work modifies the steady-state approach to work with unsteady fluid dynamics and is designed to work within the Concurrent Agent-enabled Feature Extraction concept. Each agent's belief tuple is quantified using a predefined set of information. The information and functions necessary to set each component in each agent's belief tuple …