CFD ANALYSIS

PROJECT PRESENTATION BY:

1.AKSHAY DHULE 3.AMAR KHANDGAONKAR

2.AKSHAY BHUTADA 4.MANDAR JEWARE
 FLOW PAST A CYLINDER
• Problem specification:
Diameter of the cylinder = 1 m,
X component of the velocity = 1 m/s ,
Density of the fluid = 1 kg/m^3,
Dynamic viscosity= 0.05 kg/m*s . (Reynolds no.=20)

Objective:
We are obtaining various results using CFD FLUENT 14.5 and then comparing them
with experimental data. We are changing Re values by altering viscosity values .
We are obtaining results for Re=20 &40 for steady flow and for Re=100 for
unsteady flow.
 Pre-analysis :

As this is external flow we need to place outer boundary which is 64 times

as large as diameter of cylinder . Geometry along with boundary
conditions are shown below:
 Meshing :

Geometry has quadrilateral cells in mesh and for

capturing boundary layer we have refined mesh near
cylinder wall.
Numerical Results :
For Re=20 :
For Re=40 :
For Re=100 :
Drag Coe. vs Reynold no. :
Boundary layer at Re=20,40,100 :
Velocity contours for Re=20,40,100 :
PRE-PROCESSING

1.Problem Description(Geometry)

The problem considers flow around an airfoil at different angle of attack and
free-stream Mach number=0.8. The flow is transonic and has fairly strong shock near
mid-chord(x/c=0.45) on the upper(suction) side . The chord length is 1m. The
geometry of airfoil is as shown:
 2. MESHING
• A parabola was chosen to represent the far field boundary because it has no
discontinuities in slope, enabling the construction of a smooth mesh in the
interior of the domain.
• Quadrilateral cells were used for this simple geometry because they can be
stretched easily to account for different flow gradients in different directions. In
the present case, the gradients normal to the airfoil wall are much greater than
those tangent to the airfoil. Consequently, the cells near the surface have high
aspect ratios. For geometries that are more difficult to mesh, it may be easier to
create a hybrid mesh comprised of quadrilateral and triangular cells.
SOLVER

• For pressure-velocity coupling ,Coupled scheme chosen.

• Then spatial discretization was done and calculation done

after setting materials, velocities, monitors and
initialization.

• For this problem Spalart-Allmaras(1 equation) model was

chosen.

• For 4 degree 248 iterations required to converge the

solutions whereas for 0 degree and 5 degree 97 and 175
iterations required respectively to converge.
POST-PROCESSING(RESULTS)

STATIC PRESSURE CONTOUR FOR DIFFERENT ANGLE OF ATTACK

ZERO DEGREE 4 DEGREE

5 DEGREE
TEMPERATURE CONTOUR

ZERO DEGREE

5 DEGREE 4 DEGREE
Pressure Coefficient

ZERO DEGREE

4 DEGREE

5 DEGREE
 PLOT OF DRAG COEFFICIENT AND LIFT COEFFICIENT WITH ANGLE OF ATTACK

Cl Cd
0 0.05
0 4 5 0.045
-0.05
0.04
-0.1
0.035
-0.15 0.03
0.025
-0.2 Cl Cd
0.02
-0.25 0.015
-0.3 0.01
0.005
-0.35
0
-0.4 0 4 5

WALL BOTTOM

Cl Cd
0.7 0.05
0.045
0.6
0.04
0.5 0.035
0.03
0.4
0.025
Cl Cd
0.3 0.02
0.2 0.015
0.01
0.1 0.005
0 0
0 4 5 0 4 5

WALL-TOP