Fanpar

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Fanpar

• Project data
• Title Porting and demonstration of a parallel
  software for enhanced aerodynamic and acoustic
  design of axial and centrifugal fans (FANPAR)
• Project type ESPRIT project of the EU, within
  the METIER-CEPBA-TTN
• Reference Esprit 23706
• Period 01/03/1997 - 30/09/1998
• Collaborators Guillaume Houzeaux

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• Objectives
• To model rotating flows around fans
• 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

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Results I
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Results II
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Results III
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Results IV