... method and on the choice of turbulence model. Comparing CFD predictions with the power losses measured on a specific test rig, it is shown that the fluid ejection in the radial direction must be included in order to reproduce the experimental evidence. The relative importance of the losses generated...

...Nathan Rolander; Jeffrey Rambo; Yogendra Joshi; Janet K. Allen; Farrokh Mistree The complex turbulent flow regimes encountered in many thermal-fluid engineering applications have proven resistant to the effective application of systematic design because of the computational expense of model...