Principal Investigator:
Sahin Yigit, Josef Hasslberger, Markus Klein
, Numerical Methods in Aerospace Engineering, Bundeswehr University Munich
HPC Platform used:
SuperMUC and SuperMUC-NG of LRZ
Local Project ID:
pn56di
This project focuses on the modelling and physical understanding of 3D turbulent natural convection of non-Newtonian fluids in enclosures. This topic has wide relevance in engineering applications such as preservation of canned foods, polymer and chemical processing, bio-chemical synthesis, solar and nuclear energy, thermal energy storages. Different aspects of non-Newtonian fluids have been analysed in the course of this work: The behaviour of yield stress fluids in cubical enclosures, 2D and 3D Rayleigh-Bénard convection of power-law fluids in cylindrical and annular enclosures and finally the investigation of Prandtl number (Pr) effects near active walls on the velocity gradient and flow topologies.