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Title: A Cut-Cell Based Ghost Fluid Method for Multi-Component Compressible Flows
Author: Liu, Chen
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Fluid mechanics
Description: Multi-material compressible flows are observed in several applications of practical relevance including combustion, cavitation and shock lithotripsy. To solve such flows numerically with improved efficiency and accuracy, the use of the Ghost Fluid...

Title: Aerodynamics of UAV Ground Effect Interactions
Author: Timms, William
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Fluid mechanics
Description: With the advent of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) becoming more prevalent for military and commercial applications, gaining a better understanding of their aerodynamic characteristics is critical. No matter the application, each operatio...

Title: CFD simulation of an overtaking maneuver using simplified vehicle bodies
Author: Chellaram, Arune
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: When two vehicle bodies are involved in a passing maneuver, interesting and intricate aerodynamic interactions occur between them. This has been an area of active interest in Motorsports for quite some time. The existing literature shows only few ...

Title: CFD-URANS ANALYSIS OF THE WATER FLOW IN AN ALGAE MAGNETIC SEPARATOR
Author: Joshi, Shreyas
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Crude oil is one of the major sources for energy production. One barrel could produce up to 50% of gasoline. Almost, 75% of a crude oil barrel can be converted to petroleum products which are the most consumable energy sources over the world. With...

Title: Computational investigations on the aerodynamics of a generic car model in proximity to a side wall
Author: Mallapragada, Srivatsa
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Fluid mechanics, Physics
Description: A moving road vehicle is subjected to many fluid interferences caused by a number of external agents apart from the vehicle itself. Vehicles moving in proximity to a side wall is an interesting aspect that has been little investigated in the liter...

Title: Development of CFD Simulation Frameworks For High Fidelity Predictions of Quadcopter Aerodynamics
Author: Madabushi, Karthik Srinivas
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Aerospace engineering
Description: External aerodynamic simulation of a rotor system is far more challenging compared to simulations involving fixed wing aircraft. This is because the surrounding flow field itself is far more complex. The rotating blades of the rotor system encount...

Title: HYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS OF EJECTA PRODUCTION FROM SHOCKED METALLIC SURFACES
Author: Karkhanis, Varad
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Aerospace engineering
Description: The phenomenon of mass ejection into vacuum from a shocked metallic free surfaces can have a deleterious effect on the implosion phase of the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) process. Often, the ejecta take the form of a cloud of particles that a...

Title: Insight Derived From High Order Structured Finite Difference CFD Simulations of Flow Past Generic Simplified Car Models
Author: Henry, Maxwell
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: This thesis focuses upon using a high-order finite-difference method on a structured overset grid to study flow features around a generic simplified car model adjusting mesh refinements, rear slant angles, solvers, and turbulence models. These pro...

Title: Numerical Simulation Based Analysis Of Road Vehicle Aerodynamic Flows
Author: Zhang, Chunhui
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is currently viewed as one of the major tools for investigating aerodynamics of road vehicles. In spite of its well-documented limitations in predicting flows involving complex geometries and flow separations, th...

Title: On Accelerating Road Vehicle Aerodynamics
Author: Peters, Brett
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Aerospace engineering, Fluid mechanics
Description: Road vehicle aerodynamics are primarily focused on developing and modeling performance at steady-state conditions, although this does not fully encompass the entire operating envelope. Considerable vehicle acceleration and deceleration occurs duri...

Title: PREDICTION OF DISC WING AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
Author: Honeycutt, Daniel
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Aerospace engineering
Description: The primary goal of the work presented in this thesis is to assess the effectiveness of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools in predicting flow fields around golf discs. The quantities of interest involve aerodynamic force and moment coefficie...

Title: SENSITIVITY OF TURBULENCE CLOSURE COEFFICIENTS ON THE AERODYNAMIC PREDICTIONS OF FLOW OVER A SIMPLIFIED ROAD VEHICLE
Author: Dangeti, Chamundeswar Sridhar
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis of complex external flows is an important component of road vehicle design and development. The Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) turbulence modeling is widely used in the automotive industry for si...