[HTML][HTML] A modified algebraic turbulent heat flux model for non-equilibrium and rotating flow and its application in film cooling simulation of a rotating turbine blade

K Mazaheri, M Darbandi, MM Emad - International Journal of Thermofluids, 2024 - Elsevier
Thermal fields and cooling flows over rotating turbine blades are usually a non-equilibrium
anisotropic flow, and most turbulence models in RANS simulations do not provide …

Development of an explicit algebraic turbulent heat flux model and its application in high blowing ratio film cooling simulations

K Mazaheri, M Darbandi, MM Emad - International Communications in Heat …, 2024 - Elsevier
Accurately predicting turbulent heat transfer in non-equilibrium anisotropic flow fields is a
challenging task in Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations. This paper aims …

[HTML][HTML] Strong dissimilarity between heat and momentum transfer in rotating Couette flows

G Brethouwer - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023 - Elsevier
Rotation influences flows and transport processes in many engineering applications,
however, even in canonical flow cases, the effects of rotation are not fully understood. Here …

Assessment of algebraic anisotropic turbulent heat flux models using Reynolds stress modeling for simulating film cooling flows

M Mir Emad, K Mazaheri, M Darbandi - Physics of Fluids, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
This study evaluates the performance of various algebraic turbulent heat flux models in
predicting film cooling flows using different Reynolds stress turbulence models. a priori …

Experimental and numerical investigation of turbulent mixing in film cooling applications

M Straußwald, K Schmid… - … Expo: Power for …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Fundamental knowledge on the flow dynamics and in particular the turbulent heat flux in film
cooling flows is essential for the future design process of efficient cooling geometries …

Passive scalar transport in rotating turbulent channel flow

G Brethouwer - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
Passive scalar transport in turbulent channel flow subject to spanwise system rotation is
studied by direct numerical simulations. The Reynolds number. On the unstable channel …

Implementation of the IDEAL algorithm for complex steady-state incompressible fluid flow problems in OpenFOAM

Y Deng, D Sun, Y Liang, B Yu, P Wang - International Communications in …, 2017 - Elsevier
The IDEAL algorithm is an efficient and robust pressure-velocity coupling algorithm, which
has been applied in a variety of fluid flow and heat transfer problems. However, the further …

Influence of spanwise rotation and scalar boundary conditions on passive scalar transport in turbulent channel flow

G Brethouwer - Physical Review Fluids, 2019 - APS
Direct numerical simulations of passive scalar transport in turbulent channel flow subject to
spanwise rotation are carried out with two different boundary conditions for the scalar. In the …

A modified turbulent heat-flux model for predicting heat transfer in separating-reattaching flows and film cooling applications

K Mazaheri, KC Kiani, M Karimi - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
The present study addresses a new effort to improve the prediction of the thermal field in
separating-reattaching flows by making modifications in a low-Reynolds-number (LRN) …

Application of a modified algebraic heat-flux model and second-moment-closure to high blowing-ratio film-cooling and corrugated heat-exchanger simulations

K Mazaheri, KC Kiani, M Karimi - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
The present paper outlines the application of the recently proposed heat-flux model
(Mazaheri et al., 2017) to high blowing-ratio film-cooling and corrugated heat-exchanger …