Physics-informed neural networks for highly compressible flows: assessing and enhancing shock-capturing capabilities

While physics-informed neural networks have been shown to accurately solve a wide range of fluid dynamics problems, their effectivity on highly compressible flows is so far limited. In particular, they struggle with transonic and supersonic problems that involve discontinuities such as shocks. While there have been multiple efforts to alleviate...

Expansions in the Non-Ideal Compressible Flow Regime: A Numerical and Experimental Study

Organic Rankine Cycle systems are gaining increasing attention as a modular, cost-effective and decentralised thermal energy recovery solution. The design of an efficient expander in the ORC system is crucial to its rapid uptake by the industry. Compared to volumetric expanders, a radial turbine provides advantages in terms of flexibility and...

Adaptive reduced-order modeling for non-linear fluid–structure interaction

We present an adaptive reduced-order model for the efficient time-resolved simulation of fluid–structure interaction problems with complex and non-linear deformations. The model is based on repeated linearizations of the structural balance equations. Upon each linearization step, the number of unknowns is strongly decreased by using modal...

Turbulence modelling for flows with strong variations in thermo-physical properties

This paper presents a novel methodology for improving eddy viscosity models in predicting wall-bounded turbulent flows with strong gradients in the thermo-physical properties. Common turbulence models for solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations do not correctly account for variations in transport properties, such as density and...

Surface flow visualization of a glancing shock-wave/ boundary-layer interaction

VISIAN: a viscous-inviscid strong-interaction analysis system

A description is given of VISIAN - a simulation method for 2-D viscous flows with strong viscous-inviscid interaction. The mathematical mode and the numerical algorithm are presented. VISIAN has been coupled with the inviscid-flow solver TRAPS. Results are shown for a number of airfoils; a comparison is made with results from other computations...

Development of an advanced panel method for complex configurations in subsonic compressible flow; Application to the computation of the potential flow through ducts.

The application of a boundary integral or "panel" method to duct flows is described. The method is capable of computing the three dimensional, steady state, subsonic, linearized (Prandtl-Glauert) potential flow about general configurations. The method is characterized by the application of a Dirichlet boundary condition and of "compressible"...

A program for the computation of a compressible turbulent boundary layer under infinite swept wing conditions.

A method is presented to compute the 3D compressible turbulent boundary layer on an adiabatic wall under infinite swept wing conditions. The mathematical model of turbulence is based on a generalisation of Bradshaw's 2D shear stress equation. This results in a system of 5 equations valid along 5 distinct characteristics. A brief discussion is...