Category: Publications
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Flow Adjustment Inside and Around Large Finite-Size Wind Farms
Energies 2017, 10(12), 2164; doi:10.3390/en10122164 Article: Flow Adjustment Inside and Around Large Finite-Size Wind Farms In this study, large-eddy simulations are performed to investigate the flow inside and around large finite-size wind farms in conventionally-neutral atmospheric boundary layers. Special emphasis is placed on characterizing the different farm-induced flow regions, including the induction, entrance and development, fully-developed,…
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Nanofluid flow and heat transfer in boundary layers at small nanoparticle volume fraction: Zero nanoparticle flux at solid wall
Arch. Mech., 69, 1, pp. 75-100, Warszawa 2017 Article: Nanofluid flow and heat transfer in boundary layers at small nanoparticle volume fraction: Zero nanoparticle flux at solid wall The continuum formulation is applied to the developing boundary layer problem, which approximates the entrance region of nanofluid flow in micro channels or tubes. The thermophysical properties…
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Simulation of an Oscillating Hydrofoil near Boundaries
67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Volume 59, Number 20, San Francisco, CA Abstract: D24.00001: Simulation of an Oscillating Hydrofoil near Boundaries An oscillating hydrofoil in freestream flow is computationally investigated for the application of a novel hydrokinetic energy device. The hydrofoil is prescribed a rigid body sinusoidal motion in pitch…
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A Moving Mesh Approach for Flow Simulations of an Oscillating Hydrofoil
• Investigated the feasibility of using dynamic mesh approach to simulate oscillating hydrofoil motion in Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) model • Implemented direct numerical simulation, used PISO algorithm and PimpleDyMFoam solver to conduct the CFD simulation in OpenFOAM • Post-processed the CFD simulation results using Tecplot and ParaFoam • Validated the results (i.e. flow fields,…
Ka Ling Wu 