About this Research Topic
Fluid machinery is widely used in agriculture, hydroelectric power plants, mechanical and chemical industry for several transport processes of different kinds of fluids. With the rapid development of high-performance computers and advanced numerical algorithms, as well as the noticeable increase of the cost of experimental research of full-scale fluid machinery and systems, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques have proven to save both human and enegy resources and are capable of providing fast and reliable insight into the features of the internal flow and energy characteristics of fluid machinery.
Even though CFD has been applied in the design of fluid machinery, and substantial achievements have been made in the research aimded to increase its performance and make it a suitable tool in the actual design of turbomachinery, there are still great challenges ahead to enhance the performance and energy efficiency of fluid machinery and their auxiliary systems. At present, the system energy saving, multiphase flow mechanism, heat and mass transfer, transient- and off-design operation and flow induced vibrations are promising research areas in the scientific community around the world.
This Research Topic seeks for high-quality original research, focusing on recent advances in computational research on thermo-fluid dynamics of fluid machinery. Original research and review articles are welcome. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Control of unsteady flow in fluid machinery
- Application of new turbulence models
- Multi-phase flow in fluid machinery
- Study of cavitation dynamics and cavitation theory
- Research on unstable operation and energy loss mechanisms of hydraulic machinery
- Study on the law of hydraulic excitation and vibration noise
- Compressor stall and surge
- Fluid-solid interaction
- Heat and mass transfer
- Innovative experimental techniques for fluid machinery
Even though CFD has been applied in the design of fluid machinery, and substantial achievements have been made in the research aimded to increase its performance and make it a suitable tool in the actual design of turbomachinery, there are still great challenges ahead to enhance the performance and energy efficiency of fluid machinery and their auxiliary systems. At present, the system energy saving, multiphase flow mechanism, heat and mass transfer, transient- and off-design operation and flow induced vibrations are promising research areas in the scientific community around the world.
This Research Topic seeks for high-quality original research, focusing on recent advances in computational research on thermo-fluid dynamics of fluid machinery. Original research and review articles are welcome. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Control of unsteady flow in fluid machinery
- Application of new turbulence models
- Multi-phase flow in fluid machinery
- Study of cavitation dynamics and cavitation theory
- Research on unstable operation and energy loss mechanisms of hydraulic machinery
- Study on the law of hydraulic excitation and vibration noise
- Compressor stall and surge
- Fluid-solid interaction
- Heat and mass transfer
- Innovative experimental techniques for fluid machinery
Keywords: CFD, Fluid Machinery, Unsteady Flow, Cavitation, Shock and Vibration, Energy characteristics, Heat transfer, Turbulence model, Turbomachinery, Experimental techniques, Stall and Surge
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