Incompressible flow in nozzles using the Galerkin finite element method
Abstract
The Galerkin Finite Element Method has been used to calculate inviscid, incompressible, fluid flow in arbitrarily shaped axisymmetric nozzles including entrance length. The present formulation uses the continuity and irrotationality equations which are linear when written in terms of velocity components. The flow field was discretized into triangular elements with linear shape functions approximating the velocity components.
- Publication:
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Computational Techniques and Applications: CTAC-83
- Pub Date:
- 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984ctap.proc..256D
- Keywords:
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- Computational Fluid Dynamics;
- Finite Element Method;
- Galerkin Method;
- Incompressible Flow;
- Nozzle Flow;
- Nozzle Geometry;
- Air Flow;
- Axisymmetric Flow;
- Convergent-Divergent Nozzles;
- Inviscid Flow;
- Nozzle Walls;
- Wall Pressure;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer