Fluid flows around turbomachinery using an explicit pseudo‐temporal Euler FEM

Published in Commun. Numer. Meth. Engng Vol. 11 (3), pp. 199-211, 1995
doi:10.1002/cnm.1640110303

Abstract

This work is devoted to the simulation by finite elements of nearly incompressible inviscid flows in real 3D geometries, by means of an Euler code based on the SUPG (streamline upwind Petrov–Galerkin) method, explicit forward Euler pseudo‐temporal time integration and periodic and absorbing boundary conditions, among other features. The main goal is the application to flow around turbomachinery, with special emphasis on the performance analysis of a given machine, that involves several numerical computations at different operation points. Finally, these results are summarized in the form of characteristic curves.