scholarly journals The relation between wind velocity at 1000 metres altitude and the surface pressure distribution

1908 ◽  
Vol 80 (540) ◽  
pp. 436-443 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Angular Velocity ◽  
Pressure Distribution ◽  
Wind Velocity ◽  
Centrifugal Force ◽  
Surface Pressure ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Horizontal Motion ◽  
Radius Of Curvature ◽  
Surface Pressure Distribution ◽  
The Earth

For the steady horizontal motion of air along a path whose radius of curvature is r , we may write directly the equation (ω r sin λ ± v ) 2 / r = 1/ρ ∂ p / ∂ r +(ω r sin λ ) 2 / r , expressing the fact that the part of the centrifugal force arising from the motion of the wind is balanced by the effective gradient of pressure. In the equation p is atmospheric pressure, ρ density, v velocity of moving air, λ is latitude, and ω is the angular velocity of the earth about its axis.

Design Optimization of Cryogenic Pump Inducer Considering Suction Performance and Cavitation Instability

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyoshi Watanabe ◽  
Hiroshi Tsukamoto
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Distribution ◽  
Design Optimization ◽  
Surface Pressure ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Inverse Design ◽  
Blade Surface ◽  
Free Vortex ◽  
Surface Pressure Distribution ◽  
Cavitation Instability ◽  
Suction Performance

This paper presents the result of design optimization for three-bladed pump inducer using a three-dimensional (3-D) inverse design approach, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and DoE (Design of Experiments) taking suction performance and cavitation instability into consideration. The parameters to control streamwise blade loading distribution and spanwise work (free vortex or non-free vortex) for inducer were chosen as design optimization variables for the inverse design approach. Cavitating and non-cavitating performances for inducers designed using the design variables arranged in the DoE table were analyzed by steady CFD. Objective functions for non-cavitating operating conditions were the head and efficiency of inducers at a design flow (Qd), 80% Qd and 120% Qd. The volume of the inducer cavity region with a void ratio above 50% was selected as the objective function for inducer suction performance. In order to evaluate cavitation instability by steady CFD, the dispersion of the blade surface pressure distribution on each blade was selected as the evaluation parameter. This dispersion of the blade surface pressure distribution was caused by non-uniformity in the cavitation length that was developed on each inducer blade and increased when the cavitation number was reduced. The effective design parameters on suction performance and cavitation instability were confirmed by sensitivity analysis during the design optimization process. Inducers with specific characteristics (stable, unstable) designed using the effective parameters were evaluated through experiments.

Generalisation of the Condition for Waviness in the Pressure Distribution on a Cambered Plate

1963 ◽  
Vol 67 (632) ◽  
pp. 529-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Angus Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Distribution ◽  
Surface Pressure ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Metal Plate ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Striking Result ◽  
Surface Pressure Distribution

Recently some data from tests done on a cambered plate have been published. The shape of metal plate aerofoil tested matched that taken up by a flexible two-dimensional sail. The most striking result in the rneasurements was the waviness present near the leading edge in the upper surface pressure distribution. To find the theoretical conditions under which such a waviness would occur a parabolic skeleton aerofoil was investigated, as this shape differed little from the actual aerofoil tested.

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