DOI: 10.1615/ICHMT.2009.TurbulHeatMassTransf
ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-262-1
ISSN: 2377-2816
Heat and fluid flow simulations for deciding tomorrow's energies
SINOPSIS
This paper presents a review of recent applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics on problems dealing with power generation. Various turbulence models are used on different configurations involving heat transfer, ranging from Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations (RANSE) with first or second order moment closure to Large Eddy Simulation (LES). These simulations are clearly demonstrating the interest of using second order moment closure turbulence models even if they are requiring finer mesh to deliver reasonable accurate solutions. For addressing real industrial problems, developments are mandatory for taking every advantages of performance computing facilities available and especially large parallel computers. The Code_Saturne software coupled with SYRTHES for conjugated heat transfer proved to be very well suited to this kind of architecture. They are available as free software under GNU GPL.