Date of Award
Summer 8-2014
Access Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering
Department
Aerospace Engineering
Committee Chair
Yechiel J. Crispin
First Committee Member
R.R. Mankbadi
Second Committee Member
Dongeun Seo
Abstract
The problem of unsteady viscous incompressible flow in a two-dimensional cavity is treated using the unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with various initial and boundary conditions. First the case of a square cavity with one inlet and one outlet is treated in steady and unsteady flows. The software package ANSYS FLUENT was used in the CFD simulations. This approach captures the appearance of separation bubbles and vortex formation inside the cavity. Steady state flows are also obtained from the unsteady simulations after convergence of the time dependent solutions. Then the case of a cavity with a synthetic jet and two outlets is treated, where a complex configuration of vortices and bubbles form in the cavity.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Vadlamudi, Chandramouli, "Unsteady Viscous Cavity Flow Using Computational Fluid Dynamics" (2014). Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses. 255.
https://commons.erau.edu/edt/255
