... Organization of The Thesis 23 Chapter Development of Efficient Lattice Boltzmann Method on Non-Uniform 25 Cartesian Mesh 2.1 Standard LBM 26 2.2 Taylor Series Expansion and Least Squares-base Lattice ... Non -Boundary Conforming Method 1.2.1 Sharp interface approach 1.2.2 Diffuse interface approach 1.2.2.1 Immersed boundary method 1.2.2.2 Force calculation in IBM 1.2....
... Miniature UAV helicopter also has special attractiveness to the academic circle because of their smaller size, expendable lower cost, outstanding maneuverability, ease of uses, and wide range of capabilities ... name a few However, due to the highly dynamic behavior of helicopter, limited payload capability and lack of highly accurate sensors, miniature UAVs are stil...
... “so-called immersed boundary methods are not real immersed boundary methods and therefore fall out of the scope of the present 13 Chapter Introduction thesis 1. 3 Brief review of Immersed boundary ... function-vorticity formulation-based immersed boundary method; The reported immersed boundary methods for thermal flows are not capable of exactl...
... ∂x (3. 3) and the stream function is related to the velocity by u= ∂ϕ ∂y v=− (3. 4) ∂ϕ ∂x (3. 5) Note that ω + Θ in Eq (3. 3) is the physical vorticity Eqs (3. 1) to (3. 5) together with Eqs (2 .3) and ... (3. 8) and (3. 9) and obtain predicted vorticity ω * and stream function ϕ * ; 2) Substitute ϕ * to Eqs (3. 4) and (3. 5) to calculate the predicted velocity * field u ; 3) Com...
... = TB (X(s, t ), t ) (4. 4) Here Eqs (4. 1a), (4. 2), (4. 3) describe forced convection problems while Eqs (4. 1b), (4. 2), (4. 3) describe natural convection problems In Eq (4. 1b), the Boussinesq approximation ... ∫ − T Γ total Γ Lref (4. 22) where Ltotal is the total length of the immersed boundary Ltotal = ∫ Γ (4. 23) ds As shown in Eqs (4. 21) and (4. 22), the evaluation of loca...
... releases constant and uniform heat flux is simulated for several low and moderate Reynolds numbers of 1 35 Chapter An Efficient IBM for Thermal Flow Problems with Heat Flux Boundary Condition ... investigations are carried out for three Rayleigh numbers of Ra = 1000, 57 00 and 5 10 while Prandtl number is kept at Pr = 0.7 The initial conditions are set as zero for...
... in Fig 6. 10 To get a clear view of the ground effect on the aerodynamic forces, C H 161 Chapter Applications of Developed IBM Solvers to Simulate 2D Fluid and Thermal Flows and CV for the ... (see Fig 6. 25(a) and Fig .6. 25(c) for comparison), but higher vibration frequencies play a role of progressively reducing the longitudinal vortex spacing (see Fig 6. 26( b...
... (20 07) reported the variation of the drag and lift forces for Reynolds number of 50, 100 and 200 Yoon & Yang (20 07) , by performing a parametric study, estimated flow-induced forces on two 2 27 ... terms of temperature contours (isotherms) in Figs 7. 3 and 7. 4, for isothermal condition and isoflux condition, respectively As expected, the isotherms are symmetric about...
... overall width of the wake is larger The time-dependent hydrodynamic forces experienced by the fish for Re = 300 and 4000 are plotted in Figs 8. 18( a) and 8. 18( b), respectively, in forms of force coefficient ... cases of St = 0 .8 and 1.0 in Figs 8. 10(b) and 8. 10(c), a diamond-shaped region of high velocity exists immediately behind the flapping foil and there is...