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Flow Analysis of a Wave-Energy Air Turbine with the SUPG/PSPG Method and DCDD

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We present flow analysis of a wave-energy air turbine, specifically a Wells turbine. The analysis is based on the Streamline-Upwind/Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG) and Pressure-Stabilizing/Petrov-Galerkin (PSPG) methods and discontinuity-capturing directional dissipation (DCDD). The DCDD, first introduced to complement the SUPG/PSPG method in computation of incompressible flows in the presence of sharp solution gradients, was also shown to perform well in turbulent-flow test computations when compared to the Smagorinsky large eddy simulation model. Our computational analysis of the Wells turbine here, with results that compare favorably to the available experimental data, shows that the DCDD method performs well also in turbomachinery flows.

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The authors acknowledge MIUR support under the project Ateneo and the Visiting Professor Program at University of Rome “La Sapienza.”

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana, 18, I-00184, Rome, Italy

    Lucio Cardillo, Alessandro Corsini, Giovanni Delibra & Franco Rispoli

  2. Mechanical Engineering, Rice University – MS 321, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77005, USA

    Tayfun E. Tezduyar

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Cardillo, L., Corsini, A., Delibra, G., Rispoli, F., Tezduyar, T.E. (2016). Flow Analysis of a Wave-Energy Air Turbine with the SUPG/PSPG Method and DCDD. In: Bazilevs, Y., Takizawa, K. (eds) Advances in Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction and Flow Simulation. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40827-9_4

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