Suite for Smooth Particle Hydrodynamic Code Relevant to Spherical Plasma Liner Formation and Implosion

Author(s):  
Kevin Schillo ◽  
Jason Cassibry ◽  
Mitchell Rodriguez ◽  
Seth Thompson

Three-dimensional (3D) modeling of magneto-inertial fusion (MIF) is at a nascent stage of development. A suite of test cases relevant to plasma liner formation and implosion is presented to present the community with some exact solutions for verification of hydrocodes pertaining to MIF confinement concepts. MIF is of particular interest to fusion research, as it may lead to the development of smaller and more economical reactor designs for power and propulsion. The authors present simulated test cases using a new smoothed particle hydrodynamic (SPH) code called SPFMax. These test cases consist of a total of six problems with analytical solutions that incorporate the physics of radiation cooling, heat transfer, oblique-shock capturing, angular-momentum conservation, and viscosity effects. These physics are pertinent to plasma liner formation and implosion by merging of a spherical array of plasma jets as a candidate standoff driver for MIF. An L2 norm analysis was conducted for each test case. Each test case was found to converge to the analytical solution with increasing resolution, and the convergence rate was on the order of what has been reported by other SPH studies.

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Gardner ◽  
K. Richter

A computational investigation of the effect of rotation on two-dimensional (2D) deep dynamic stall has been undertaken, showing that the effect of rotation is to reduce the severity of the pitching moment peak and cause earlier reattachment of the flow. A generic single blade rotor geometry was investigated, which had a pitching oscillation around the quarter-chord axis while in hover, causing angle-driven dynamic stall. The results at the midpoint of the blade have the same Mach number (0.31), Reynolds number (1.15 × 106), and pitching motion (α = 13° ± 7°) as a dynamic stall test case for which significant experimental wind tunnel data and 2D computations exist. The rotating blade is compared with 2D computations and computations using the same blade without rotation at Mach 0.31 and with the same pitching motion. All test cases involve geometries propagating into undisturbed flow with no downwash. The three-dimensional (3D) grid computed without rotation had lower lift at the reference section than for a 2D computation with the same geometric angle of attack time history, and the lift overshoot classically observed for Spalart–Allmaras turbulence models during 2D dynamic stall was significantly reduced in the 3D case. Rotation reduced the strength of the dynamic stall vortex, which reduced the accompanying pitching moment peak by 25%.


Author(s):  
A. L. de Wet ◽  
T. W. von Backström ◽  
S. J. van der Spuy

The compressor section of a diesel locomotive turbocharger was re-designed to increase its maximum total-to-total pressure ratio and efficiency. Tests conducted on the prototype compressor showed possible rotating stall in the diffuser section before the designed higher pressure ratio could be achieved. It was decided to simulate the prototype compressor’s operation by using one-dimensional theory [1], followed by a three-dimensional CFD analysis of the compressor. This publication focuses on implementation of the impeller, vaneless annular passage and vaned diffuser one-dimensional theories. A verification process was followed to show the accuracy of the one- and three-dimensional modelling methods using two well-known centrifugal compressor test cases found in the literature [2–5]. Comparing the test case modelling results to available experimental results indicated sufficient accuracy to investigate the prototype compressor’s impeller and diffuser. Conclusions drawn on the prototype compressor’s performance using the one- and three-dimensional modelling methods led to a recommendation to redesign the impeller and diffuser of the prototype compressor.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnaud Budo ◽  
Vincent E. Terrapon ◽  
Maarten Arnst ◽  
Koen Hillewaert ◽  
Sophie Mouriaux ◽  
...  

Abstract This paper describes the evaluation of a newly developed viscous time-marching through-flow solver to two test cases to assess the applicability of the method using correlations from the literature to modern blade designs. The test cases are the classic axial compressor stage CME2 and a modern highly loaded multi-stage axial low-pressure compressor developed by Safran Aero Boosters. The through-flow solver is based on the Navier-Stokes equations and uses a pseudo-time marching method. The closure models currently include terms of major importance: the blade forces and the Reynolds stress. The results are compared to higher-fidelity results including three-dimensional RANS simulations to assess their reliability for design and off-design conditions. The main originality of this work is the evaluation of the CFD-based method in the context of a compressor with highly three-dimensional blades, as such an analysis is not commonly found in the literature. The solver gives realistic predictions of loss and deviation for the compressor stage CME2 at both design and off-design operating conditions. Regarding the second test case, the through-flow simulations based on theoretically non-adapted correlations for such a compressor are still in good agreement with RANS simulations, although the results for the 2nd test case are probably not as good as for the first. These results are a promising first step towards the use of this through-flow model for industrial design. Regarding the ongoing closure models development, suggestions to extend the loss models to a larger range of designs are discussed.


Author(s):  
Gabriel Saiz ◽  
Mehmet Imregun ◽  
Abdulnaser I. Sayma

A three-dimensional time-linearised unsteady Navier-Stokes solver is presented for the computation of multistage unsteady flow in turbomachinery. The objective is to address multistage aeroelastic effects for both flutter and forced response. Since the method is currently being developed, only forced response applications are studied in this paper. With this approach, travelling waves, known as spinning modes, are propagated across the multistage domain in order to take into account the interaction between the blade-rows. The method is first validated over two simple test cases for which analytical solutions were available. It is then tested on a turbine stage test case and multistage effects are evaluated from the contribution of one spinning mode included in the model. The results are compared with both time-linearised single-row and nonlinear multirow methods. Multi-row effects are shown not to be important in this case. However, the test case serves as a validation for the implementation of the methodology and further work will focus on the implementation of several spinning modes and the computations of forced response and flutter cases with several blade-rows.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor P. Zhukov ◽  
Markus Feil

The processes of mixing and combustion in the jet of a shear-coaxial injector are investigated. Two test cases (nonreacting and reacting) are simulated using the commercial computational fluid dynamics code ANSYS CFX. The first test case is an experiment on the mixing in a nonreacting coaxial jet carried out with the use of planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF). The second test case is an experiment on the visualization of hydrogen-oxygen flame using PLIF of OH in a single injector combustion chamber at pressure of 53 bar. In the first test case, the two-dimensional axisymmetric simulations are performed using the shear-stress turbulence (SST) model. Due to the dominant flow unsteadiness in the second test case, the turbulence is modeled using transient SAS (Scale-Adaptive Simulation) model. The combustion is modeled using the burning velocity model (BVM) while both two- and three-dimensional simulations are carried out. The numerical model agrees with the experimental data very well in the first test case and adequately in the second test case.


Author(s):  
Sebastian Föllner ◽  
Volker Amedick ◽  
Bernhard Bonhoff ◽  
Dieter Brillert ◽  
Friedrich-Karl Benra

Abstract In this paper the development and validation of a new meridional throughflow solver for the analysis of multistage axial turbines is presented. The quasi-three-dimensional finite-volume solver named tFlow is based on the inviscid Euler equations. To treat transonic flows with shocks the approximate Riemann solver of Roe for the computation of the inviscid fluxes in combination with the MUSCL approach are used. In the meridional plane turbine blades are numerically modeled by introducing two volume source terms for blade blockage and blade deviation effects. In this contribution four different validation test-cases are discussed. The general fluid solver is validated by analytical solutions of the established Ringleb flow and the simulation of a two-dimensional transonic nozzle flow. In contrast to prior publications [1–3] tFlow uses a different formulation of the blockage effect which is tested using the blockage data of a general convergent-divergent nozzle. Blade deviation effects are validated by comparison with three-dimensional results obtained from the commercial flow solver CFX. The results of tFlow are consistent with the analytical solutions and in case of the blade deviation test-case in good agreement to the three-dimensional results. Compared to fully three-dimensional simulations the developed solver enables faster analyses of multistage axial turbines to evaluate the performance characteristic.


2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Man Zhang ◽  
Bogdan Marculescu ◽  
Andrea Arcuri

AbstractNowadays, RESTful web services are widely used for building enterprise applications. REST is not a protocol, but rather it defines a set of guidelines on how to design APIs to access and manipulate resources using HTTP over a network. In this paper, we propose an enhanced search-based method for automated system test generation for RESTful web services, by exploiting domain knowledge on the handling of HTTP resources. The proposed techniques use domain knowledge specific to RESTful web services and a set of effective templates to structure test actions (i.e., ordered sequences of HTTP calls) within an individual in the evolutionary search. The action templates are developed based on the semantics of HTTP methods and are used to manipulate the web services’ resources. In addition, we propose five novel sampling strategies with four sampling methods (i.e., resource-based sampling) for the test cases that can use one or more of these templates. The strategies are further supported with a set of new, specialized mutation operators (i.e., resource-based mutation) in the evolutionary search that take into account the use of these resources in the generated test cases. Moreover, we propose a novel dependency handling to detect possible dependencies among the resources in the tested applications. The resource-based sampling and mutations are then enhanced by exploiting the information of these detected dependencies. To evaluate our approach, we implemented it as an extension to the EvoMaster tool, and conducted an empirical study with two selected baselines on 7 open-source and 12 synthetic RESTful web services. Results show that our novel resource-based approach with dependency handling obtains a significant improvement in performance over the baselines, e.g., up to + 130.7% relative improvement (growing from + 27.9% to + 64.3%) on line coverage.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Nenad Bojcetic ◽  
Filip Valjak ◽  
Dragan Zezelj ◽  
Tomislav Martinec

The article describes an attempt to address the automatized evaluation of student three-dimensional (3D) computer-aided design (CAD) models. The driving idea was conceptualized under the restraints of the COVID pandemic, driven by the problem of evaluating a large number of student 3D CAD models. The described computer solution can be implemented using any CAD computer application that supports customization. Test cases showed that the proposed solution was valid and could be used to evaluate many students’ 3D CAD models. The computer solution can also be used to help students to better understand how to create a 3D CAD model, thereby complying with the requirements of particular teachers.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 540-555
Author(s):  
Hayley L. Mickleburgh ◽  
Liv Nilsson Stutz ◽  
Harry Fokkens

Abstract The reconstruction of past mortuary rituals and practices increasingly incorporates analysis of the taphonomic history of the grave and buried body, using the framework provided by archaeothanatology. Archaeothanatological analysis relies on interpretation of the three-dimensional (3D) relationship of bones within the grave and traditionally depends on elaborate written descriptions and two-dimensional (2D) images of the remains during excavation to capture this spatial information. With the rapid development of inexpensive 3D tools, digital replicas (3D models) are now commonly available to preserve 3D information on human burials during excavation. A procedure developed using a test case to enhance archaeothanatological analysis and improve post-excavation analysis of human burials is described. Beyond preservation of static spatial information, 3D visualization techniques can be used in archaeothanatology to reconstruct the spatial displacement of bones over time, from deposition of the body to excavation of the skeletonized remains. The purpose of the procedure is to produce 3D simulations to visualize and test archaeothanatological hypotheses, thereby augmenting traditional archaeothanatological analysis. We illustrate our approach with the reconstruction of mortuary practices and burial taphonomy of a Bell Beaker burial from the site of Oostwoud-Tuithoorn, West-Frisia, the Netherlands. This case study was selected as the test case because of its relatively complete context information. The test case shows the potential for application of the procedure to older 2D field documentation, even when the amount and detail of documentation is less than ideal.


Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (15) ◽  
pp. 1779
Author(s):  
Wanida Khamprapai ◽  
Cheng-Fa Tsai ◽  
Paohsi Wang ◽  
Chi-En Tsai

Test case generation is an important process in software testing. However, manual generation of test cases is a time-consuming process. Automation can considerably reduce the time required to create adequate test cases for software testing. Genetic algorithms (GAs) are considered to be effective in this regard. The multiple-searching genetic algorithm (MSGA) uses a modified version of the GA to solve the multicast routing problem in network systems. MSGA can be improved to make it suitable for generating test cases. In this paper, a new algorithm called the enhanced multiple-searching genetic algorithm (EMSGA), which involves a few additional processes for selecting the best chromosomes in the GA process, is proposed. The performance of EMSGA was evaluated through comparison with seven different search-based techniques, including random search. All algorithms were implemented in EvoSuite, which is a tool for automatic generation of test cases. The experimental results showed that EMSGA increased the efficiency of testing when compared with conventional algorithms and could detect more faults. Because of its superior performance compared with that of existing algorithms, EMSGA can enable seamless automation of software testing, thereby facilitating the development of different software packages.


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