Computational fluid dynamics prediction of subsonic axisymmetric and two-dimensional heated free turbulent air jets.

A study was conducted to evaluate the accuracy of a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code (CFDRC-ACE+) for predicting incompressible air jet flows with simple geometries. Specifically, the axis- symmetric and two-dimensional heated air-jets were simulated using a standard k- epsilon tur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DeWulf, Michael D.
Other Authors: Millsaps, Knox T.
Language:en_US
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/32953
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Summary:A study was conducted to evaluate the accuracy of a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code (CFDRC-ACE+) for predicting incompressible air jet flows with simple geometries. Specifically, the axis- symmetric and two-dimensional heated air-jets were simulated using a standard k- epsilon turbulence model. These CFD predictions were directly compared to an extensive compilation of experimental data from archive literature. The round jet results indicated that the code over-predicted the velocity-spreading rate by 24% and the temperature spreading rate by 29%