Minihap

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Minihap

• Project data
• Title Enhanced design and manufacturing of
  mini-hydraulic products
• Project type GROWTH project of the EU
• Reference GDR1-1999-10343
• Period 01/01/2000 - 31/01/2003
• Collaborators Guillaume Houzeaux

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• Objectives
• To model rotating flows around pumps
• To reproduce the pressure-flow rate curve
• To account for fixed and moving regions

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• Key numerical ingredients
• Stabilized finite element approximation of the
  incompressible Navier-Stokes equations
• Treatment of dominant rotation
• Domain decomposition between fixed and moving
  subdomains
• Fixed mesh ALE strategy

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Results I
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Results II
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Results III