Simulation of Two-Dimensional Steady State Boundary Layers Applied to Nonideal Gas Flows

Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Power Plants can be of greatimportance in the energy transition as they are suitable for converting wasteheat to power and can utilize renewable energy for their operation. To improvethe efficiency of ORC Power Plants, the physical phenomena inside thesemachines must be understood....

Investigation of dense gas effects on transition to turbulence over a flat plate boundary layer

Laminar-turbulent transition (LTT) is the process through which smooth laminar flow transits into chaotic turbulent flow. Investigation of the paths taken to transit into turbulence is a front-runner among other methods followed to characterise turbulent flows. This is of particular importance in aerospace and energy industries for the design of...

Goal-Oriented, Reduced-Order Modeling of the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations: Application to a 2D transitional boundary layer

Research into constructing reduced-order models (ROM) to reduce computational cost or to interpret complex datasets from numerical or experimental sources has steadily been gaining popularity over the past few years. Many methods currently exist to construct ROMs. The proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is one of the most widely adopted...

A Numerical Investigation into Transonic Flight on Mars Utilizing a 2-D URANS Approach

Interest in powered flight on Mars has been growing in recent years, and as such new developments are being made in determining the effects the Martian atmosphere has on the flow physics and performance, specifically with regards to similarity parameters: the Reynolds number & the Mach number. This paper aimed to investigate whether the...