Abstract:The global trend on energy integration and building efficiency is making both researchers and building developers look for technical solutions to use facade surfaces for energy harvesting. In this work, the assessment of the thermal performance of a double-skin facade (DSF) with a venetian blind-type of structure used as a solar thermal collector by means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is presented. A Venetian blind collector would allow for heat rejection/energy harvesting and exterior views simultaneously and can be easily integrated into the DSF aesthetical design. For the purposes of this study, the modeled facades (south, west, and east-oriented) were set to be located in Barcelona (Spain), where large solar gains are a constant condition throughout the year, and such large semi-transparent envelopes lead to interior over-heating in buildings, even during the winter. For the studied facades, both the reductions in radiative heat gains entering the building and the heat recovery in the Venetian blind collector were evaluated for a yearlong operation.
Cavitating flow in nozzles is a complex flow which implies a highly turbulent two-phase one. An accurate simulation which improves some numerical results found in the literature was achieved by means of an extensive analysis of the capabilities of several numerical models for turbulence and cavitation. The analysis performed involves calibration/optimization tasks based on the physics of this kind of flow. This work aims to provide a quantitative criterion for the judgment of internal flow state, because it was demonstrated that the numerical results obtained with noncalibrated models could be enhanced by means of a careful calibration and thus saving computational costs.
Una bomba centrífuga con difusor, trabajando en diseño óptimo es estudiada por modelado numérico (CFD) con el fin de identificar y estudiar la posible amplificación de fluctuaciones de presión dentro de la máquina (RSI). Se usan resultados numéricos previos, obtenidos en álabes aislados y cascadas de álabes fijos y móviles con el objeto de validar/calibrar los modelos para la turbulencia a utilizar, comparando con los de bases de datos experimentales. Este trabajo previo luego se aplica al estudio de la bomba con difusor, que servirá para futuros estudios de turbomáquinas trabajando bajo condiciones fuera de diseño en donde puede aparecer el fenómeno de cavitación.
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