Title

User Friendly Analysis Code For Conjugate Heat Transfer Problems

Abstract

Use of computational methods in the design of aircraft and turbomachinery have resulted in increased performance, a reduced need for experimentation, and an increased efficiency in the design process. To make further strides in these areas, further advances in computational methods are instrumental. These advances not only need to be made in the computational code themselves, but also are needed in how the user interacts with the code. Currently, a novel and efficient method has been developed to couple a compressible Navier-Stokes finite volume solver with a boundary element method code to solve the transient non-linear conjugate heat transfer problem. This approach exhibits two important and attractive features. First, a single computational grid is employed to simultaneously resolve the fluid flow and heat transfer external to a solid body and the heat transfer within the solid body (Conjugate Problem). Second, the method eliminates the use of convective heat transfer coefficients. This approach is in sharp contrast with current practice in which the two problems are solved separately with the solution of the external flow field providing film coefficients for the internal heat transfer calculations. Along with this code an interactive graphical user interface has been developed so that the engineer can begin obtaining solutions with a very small learning curve involved. In this paper a brief description of the computational code is presented with primary emphasis on the user interface.

Publication Date

1-1-1996

Publication Title

34th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84962177742 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84962177742

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