Publication Date:
2011-09-13
Description:
A 3D CFD code, SCISEAL, has been developed and validated. Its capabilities include cylindrical seals, and it is employed on labyrinth seals, rim seals, and disc cavities. State-of-the-art numerical methods include colocated grids, high-order differencing, and turbulence models which account for wall roughness. SCISEAL computes efficient solutions for complicated flow geometries and seal-specific capabilities (rotor loads, torques, etc.).
Keywords:
Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
Type:
Seals Code Development Workshop; 159-190; NASA-CP-10181
Format:
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