A study on Prediction of Water Discharge Performance for Showerhead Product Design

Abstract

LIXIL Co. handles a wide range of water-related products such as showers, toilets, baths, and kitchens. The fluid behavior control is a key technology for developing of these products. Therefore, the numerical simulation with CFD plays an important role in product and technical development. The flow of water in showers has been simulated with the finite volume method (FVM). However, the simulation with fine droplets such as in a shower needs a lot of computational cost. To deal with this problem, MPS particle method [1] has been introduced to take an advantage of enabling for simulating such as splashing, droplets, and mixing. In this paper, the MPS particle method is studied to simulate the shower head design because it is the first use case for simulating the spout, coupling with mechanism analysis. Because computational efficiency is also an important factor for the product development, the computational performance on GPU against multi-CPU for the MPS particle method is also discussed.

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