TY - JOUR ID - 73101 TI - A Low Cost Numerical Simulation of a Supersonic Wind-tunnel Design JO - International Journal of Engineering JA - IJE LA - en SN - 1025-2495 AU - Bagheri-Esfe, H AU - Dehghan Manshadi, M AD - Faculty of Engineering, University of Shahreza, Shahreza, Iran AD - Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Malek-Ashtar University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 31 IS - 1 SP - 128 EP - 135 KW - Geometrical Design KW - OpenMp KW - Recovery Factor KW - Roe Scheme KW - Supersonic Wind KW - Tunnel DO - N2 - In the present paper, a supersonic wind-tunnel is designed to maintain a flow with Mach number of 3 in a 30cm×30cm test section. An in-house CFD code is developed using the Roe scheme to simulate flow-field and detect location of normal shock in the supersonic wind-tunnel. In the Roe scheme, flow conditions at inner and outer sides of cell faces are determined using an upwind biased algorithm. The in-house CFD code has been parallelized using OpenMp to reduce the computational time. Also, an appropriate equation is derived to predict the optimum number of cores for running the program with different grid sizes. In the design process of the wind-tunnel, firstly geometry of the nozzle is specified by the method of characteristics. The flow in the nozzle and test section is simulated in the next step. Then, design parameters of the diffuser (convergence and divergence angles, area of the throat, and ratio of the exit area to the throat area) are determined by a trial and error method. Finally, an appropriate geometry is selected for the diffuser which satisfies all necessary criteria. UR - https://www.ije.ir/article_73101.html L1 - https://www.ije.ir/article_73101_0b13b284e8d32c6f587644649e19c6e7.pdf ER -