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FanparProject data

• Title: Porting and demonstration of a parallel software for enhanced aerodynamic and acoustic design of axial and centrifugal fans (FANPAR)

• Project type: ESPRIT project of the EU, within the METIER-CEPBA-TTN

• Reference: Esprit 23706• Period: 01/03/1997 - 30/09/1998• Collaborators: Guillaume Houzeaux

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Objectives

• To model rotating flows around fans• To reproduce the pressure-flow rate curve• To account for fixed and moving regions

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Key numerical ingredients

• Stabilized finite element approximation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

• Treatment of dominant rotation• Domain decomposition between fixed and

moving subdomains

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Results I

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Results II

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Results III

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Results IV

Pressure

TrajectoriesVelocity vectors