Numerical Simulation of

Mechanical Power Systems

Computational Fluid
Dynamics- MEP432s
Perfect Designers are
deeply understanding of
the fluid dynamics
And are significantly aware of the
flow impact on the corresponding
flow machines or equipment
 From our early ages, we used to go
to school with the interest to
know.
Teachers gave us the
ability to calculate
measurable quantities
via simple equations
F = P× A
As we joined the university, we faced
more complex equations

But we became more able to design and

innovate
 Many of us are
attracted to the
subject of how
the car engine
operates.

In the mechanical power department, we

studied internal combustion engines,
gas turbines, boilers, etc.).
Later, we found that combustion is the
most complex process
which combines the basic phenomena of
fluid flow, heat transfer and chemical
reaction
 What does this mean?
We should
realize that
all of what takes
place around
us

is due to a source
of disturbance
that causes a
transport to
counteract the
discrepancy in
values

and combustion
is due to a source is the biggest
of disturbance disturbance in
the field of heat
You can notice the basic form of
transport from the energy equation:
 Conduction,Convection, Radiation,
Chemical reaction
mfCV+mair(Tair-Tref)=mgases(Tgas-Tref)+Qrad
 Some heat is lostacross the outer walls
 Problems are thus simplified by
neglecting some terms and
distinguishing the reactive flow cases
from the non-reactive cases
 Tomake this also applicable to mass
transfer (such as an ink droplet in a
water tank, the exhaust from the
engine) call it
 Diffusion,
advection,
 chemical reaction
As we grow-up, we use computational
models

to present the
material and
fundamental
aspects.
Sit down and identify the domain of
calculation

within which the variables are computed

 For example, the region between
the flame and boiler walls is
actually your system that
accommodates the thermal
activity
 Using the real flame images and
computed contours, we identify
every zone of the flame which looks
in a dispersive form
 The variables (such as temperature,
flow velocity) have magnitudes that
have spatial and temporal variation
For example, the spatial
variation in
temperature is
responsible for
the diffusion flux of heat
across the vessel that
contains boiling water.
 It is interesting to watch Bunsen
flame to analyze the flame structure

 Shemeasures the
temperature values.

 Sheis convinced by
the amount of heat
evolving.
 After
measurement, she
can reproduce the
relative change in
the temperature
among the flame
contours
 In the mechanical power
engineering, there is a transport
of heat, mass, and momentum.
 Thedesigner utilizes the knowledge to
develop the engineering outcomes
Face the design challenge by making
computations verified by experiments
and vice versa.

 Toincrease the velocity of a rocket, to

increase the output of a boiler. What
are you going to do?
 A school of research can explain the
temperature variation in a flow
domain

in which a
thermocouple
probe may
disturb the flow
and alter the
turbulence
structures.
 However, although
computations save
the high cost of
measuring
equipments

there is a
computational time
cost.
 Not all phenomena
are included in our
computations and we
always need to go to
the lab.

to get the real

performance of new
designs
 Scientists usually use
computation for
explaining phenomena
and use experiments for
verification