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Formation of the cavity on a planar interface subjected to a perturbed shock wave

Ho Ling Li, Naifu Peng

We report the mechanism and modeling for the formation of cavitylike structures on a planar interface subjected to a perturbed shock wave. The cavity is distinguished from bubbles and spikes formed in the standard Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI). The t ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Cavitation bubble dynamics and microjet atomization near tissue-mimicking materials

Mohamed Farhat, Davide Bernardo Preso, Armand Baptiste Sieber

In recent years, considerable interest has been devoted to the interactions between cavitation bubbles and tissue-mimicking materials due to their promising applications in medicine and biomedical sciences. The strong fluid-structure interaction between a ...

AIP Publishing2023

Numerical and experimental investigation of spiral-grooved gas journal bearings

Elia Iseli

Small-scale turbomachinery is increasingly used in carbon-free energy conversion systems, such as commercial or domestic scale heat pumps, fuels cells for transportation and waste heat recovery. The usage of aerodynamic bearings allows the design of compac ...

EPFL2022

Analysis of Spiral-Grooved Gas Journal Bearings by the Narrow-Groove Theory and the Finite Element Method At Large Eccentricities

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Eliott Philippe Guenat, Elia Iseli

A finite groove approach (FGA), based on the finite element method (FEM), is used for analyzing the static and dynamic behavior of spiral-grooved aerodynamic journal bearings at different eccentricities, number of grooves, and compressibility numbers. The ...

2020

Crack front waves: A 3D dynamic response to a local perturbation of tensile and shear cracks

Jean-François Molinari, Fabian Barras, Damien Spielmann

Crack front waves are long-lived perturbations propagating along the crack front. They are triggered by heterogeneities on the crack plane, as for instance tough asperities, which disturb the crack front shape. Crack front waves are thought to leave a trac ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of a 34 Watt Radial-Inflow Steam Turbine with Partial-Admission

Jan Van Herle, Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Patrick Hubert Wagner

A micro steam turbine with a tip diameter of 15mm was designed and experimentally characterized. At the nominal mass flow rate and total-to-total pressure ratio of 2.3 kgh-1 and 2, respectively, the turbine yields a power of 34W and a total-to-static isent ...

2021

Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of a 34 Watt Radial-Inflow Steam Turbine with Partial-Admission

Jan Van Herle, Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Patrick Hubert Wagner

A micro steam turbine with a tip diameter of 15 mm was designed and experimentally characterized. At the nominal mass flow rate and total-to-total pressure ratio of 2.3 kg/h and 2, respectively, the turbine yields a power of 34 W and a total-to-static isen ...

2021

Comparative study between Cubic and Ellipsoidal Fokker-Planck kinetic models

Mohammadhossein Gorji

Motivated by improving the performance of particle-based Monte-Carlo simulations in the transitional regime, Fokker–Planck kinetic models have been devised and studied as approximations of the Boltzmann collision operator. By generalizing the linear drift ...

2019

Measurements of ion velocity and wave propagation in a hollow cathode plume

Christopher Andrew Dodson

The mechanism responsible for the production of energetic ions in the plume of hollow cathodes for electric propulsion is still an open issue. These ions are of concern to cathode and thruster lifetime, particularly for cathodes operating at high (>20 A) d ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

The Role of Impeller Outflow Conditions on the Performance of Vaned Diffusers

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

Highly loaded impellers, typically used in turbocharger and gas turbine applications, exhaust an unsteady, transonic flow that is nonuniform across the span and pitch and swirling at angles approaching tangential. With the exception of the flow angle, conf ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers2017

A Continuation Multi Level Monte Carlo (C-MLMC) method for uncertainty quantification in compressible inviscid aerodynamics

Fabio Nobile, Pénélope Leyland, Michele Pisaroni

In this work we apply the Continuation Multi-Level Monte Carlo (C-MLMC) algorithm proposed in Collier et al. (2014) to efficiently propagate operating and geometric uncertainties in inviscid compressible aerodynamics numerical simulations. The key idea of ...

Elsevier2017

Impact of rotating and fixed nozzles on vortex breakdown in compressible swirling jet flows

François Gallaire

Vortex breakdown of swirling, round jet flows is investigated in the compressible, subsonic regime by means of Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS). This is achieved by solving the compressible Navier-Stokes equations on a cylindrical grid using high-order sp ...

Elsevier2016

Efficient Absorbing Layers for Weakly Compressible Flows

Jan Sickmann Hesthaven

Seeking to develop efficient and accurate absorbing layers for the low-speed weakly compressible Navier-Stokes equations, we exploit the connection to the BGK-approximation to develop an absorbing layer with qualities similar to that of the perfectly match ...

2016

Flow simulation of a Pelton bucket using finite volume particle method

François Avellan, Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh, Christian Vessaz

The objective of the present paper is to perform an accurate numerical simulation of the high-speed water jet impinging on a Pelton bucket. To reach this goal, the Finite Volume Particle Method (FVPM) is used to discretize the governing equations. FVPM is ...

International Association For Hydraulic Research2014

High Voltage Pulsed DBD Effects on the Aerodynamic Performances and on the Shock Buffet

Christoph Hollenstein, Peter Ott, Pénélope Leyland, Philip Peschke

The applications of surface dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators, (DBD), have known a considerable interest recently in the field of flow control. In general, such actuators consist of two electrodes separated by an insulation covering the lower e ...

2013

Algorithmes d'adaptation de maillages anisotropes et application à l'aérodynamique

Wissam Hassan

The goal of this thesis is to study an anisotropic adaptive algorithm for transonic compressible viscous flow around an airwing. A convection-diffusion model problem is considered, an anisotropic a posteriori error estimator for the H1 semi-norm of the err ...

EPFL2012

Characterization of the Flow Generated in an Annular Test Facility

Peter Ott, Dominique Charbonnier, Elia Colombo, Cécile Deslot

Annular cascades are particularly useful to study the three dimensional phenomena encountered in turbomachines. The Non-Rotating Annular Test Facility of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) consists in a radial-axial inlet nozzle a ...

2011

Investigation on the Three-Dimensional Flow Mechanisms in Annular Axial Compressor Cascades for Aero Engines with Flow Control by Aspiration on the Hub and on the Blades

Elia Colombo

The axial compressor is an essential component of aero-engines and gas turbines. This work investigates how flow control by aspiration applied to the hub and to the blades of axial compressor wheels can improve the static pressure rise by preventing detrim ...

EPFL2011

Experimental investigation of the vortex shedding dynamic in the wake of oblique and blunt trailing edge hydrofoils using PIV-POD method

François Avellan, Mohamed Farhat, Amirreza Zobeiri

This paper presents an experimental investigation of the vortex shedding in the wake of blunt and oblique trailing edge hydrofoils at high Reynolds number, Re=5 10 5 - 2.9 10 6. The velocity field in the wake is surveyed with the help of Particle-Image-Vel ...

American Soc Mechanical Engineers2010