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- Berg, Niclas, 1988-
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Blood flow and cell transport in arteries and medical assist devices
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The cardiovascular system is responsible for transport of nutrients, oxygen, as well as the cells and molecules making up the immune system. Through the hemostatic system, the body maintains the integrity of the blood vessels, and prevents bleeding. The biochemical and physical processes governing the circulation interact, and take place at a large range of time and length scales - from those related to the individual cells up to the large scale flow structures. Dysfunctions of the heart or the circulatory system may have severe consequences. Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is a heterogeneous group of diseases, responsible for about 50% of all death cases in the western world.Patients with severe but transient heart and/or lung disease may require the assistance of a heart-lung machine to bridge over the period required for the affected organ to recover. One such system is the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenator (ECMO) circuit, consting of a blood pump, a membrane oxygenator, cannulae and tubing system. While the therapy is life-saving, it is associated with relatively frequent thromboembolic (blood clotting and/or bleeding) events. Modeling of the flow in some components of the ECMO circuit was undertaken. The flow data was used together with models for platelet activation to assess the risk for thrombus formation. The results indicated locations of elevated risk of thrombosis in the centrifugal blood pump, the ECMO cannulae and the pipe connectors. The identified locations agreed well with clinical observations. The results lead to a direct recommendation to minimize the use of tube connectors. Further study of the sensitivity of the platelet activation models to uncertainties and errors was carried out. Some recommendations for improved modeling were proposed.Arteriosclerosis develops slowly over a long period of time (years or decades). It manifests initially at some common sites; arteries of certain sizes with relatively strong flow rate, as well as near artery bifurcations and locations of strong vessel curvature. The location specificity indicates that the blood flow plays a central role in the arteriosclerotic process. Being able to predict the future development of arteriosclerotic lesion and its location for an individual patient would imply that pre-emptive actions could be taken. This idea was the foundation of some of the numerical simulations in this thesis. A stenoted patient specific renal artery was considered, and was reconstructed to a non-pathological state by removing the stenosis using different segmentation methods. We could then evaluate if common stenosis markers based on functions of time-averages of the Wall Shear-Stress (WSS) could be use as predictive parameters. It was shown that these markers are not adequate as predictive tools. Furthermore, it was shown that the sensitivity to reconstruction technique was at least of the same order as the effect of the choice of blood rheology model. The rheology of blood was further studied through detailed simulations resolving the blood plasma flow and its interaction with the red blood cells (RBC) and the platelets. A hybrid Immersed boundary-Lattice Boltzmann method was applied, and the rheological data was compared to the Quemada model. It was found that the Quemada model could underpredict the effective viscosity by as much as 50%. The same methodology was applied to study the transport of RBCs and platelets, and the influence of RBC polydispersity. An increased degree of variability in RBC volume was found, under certain circumstances, to lead to an increase of the transport of platelets to the vessel wall (margination).
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- Hong, Beichuan, Ph.D. student, 1989-
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Exergy Evaluation of Engine Operations : Combustion Process to Exhaust Flow
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Transitioning the transport sector to clean energy sources is crucial for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and achieving carbon neutrality. A collaborative solution, combining both electric vehicles and combustion engines using renewable fuels, may prove more effective than competitive ones. This necessitates a focus on developing sustainable combustion engines by improving their efficiency through renewable energy sources and innovative technologies.This thesis uses exergy analysis to evaluate engine efficiency, losses, and irreversibilities, as well as the work potential of exhaust flows. Particular emphasis is placed on the implications of these exergy analyses in relation to engine operations, especially concerning combustion processes and exhaust pulsations. Exergy analysis quantifies the maximum work extractable from an energy source, enabling the identification and quantification of losses and inefficiencies in thermal processes. A dual-fuel marine engine with two-stage turbocharging and an ethanol-fueled heavy-duty spark-ignition (SI) engine using lean burn are examined with validated one-dimensional engine models to analyze engine performance and losses from an exergy perspective. In the tested marine engine, irreversibilities are quantified and categorized into three types, with combustion irreversibility being the most significant, followed by losses through gas exchange and heat dissipation. In the ethanol-fueled SI engine, the effect of lean-burn combustion at high load is investigated through the excess air ratio up to 1.8, assessing its impact on thermal efficiency, combustion phasing, as well as energy and exergy distributions. Results indicate that employing lean burn improves engine efficiency with advanced combustion phasing but also leads to more exergy destruction. The importance of maintaining high exergy recovery through turbocharging for diluted operation is also highlighted.Additionally, high-frequency exhaust pulsations resulting from valve motion pose challenges in accurately resolving exhaust energy and exergy. To address this, this thesis investigates methods for exhaust pulse characterization and measurement under unsteady flow conditions. Sensitivity analyses, based on a heavy-duty engine simulation, highlight the importance of time-resolved mass flow measurements in quantifying the energy and exergy of exhaust pulsations. Subsequently, this research implements a Pitot tube-based approach to measure crank angle-resolved engine exhaust mass flow rates and to further analyze the effect of attenuated temperature measurements on resolving instantaneous mass flows. The findings indicate that temperature variations pertaining to exhaust flow conditions have only a relatively small impact on mass flow measurements. Based on the exhaust flow measurements, the mass flow characteristics of exhaust pulsations are also discussed with regard to the blow-down and scavenge phases.
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- Lim, Shyang Maw
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Aerothermodynamics and exergy analysis in turbocharger radial turbine
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Coupling of turbomachine to reciprocating automotive engine in turbocharging leads to complex fluid flow and thermal characteristics in the turbine. Some undesirable characteristics include heat transfer, flow pulsation and secondary flow due to the complex geometry of the upstream exhaust manifold. The performed literature review exposed that there is a need for an enhanced understanding of the thermo-fluid physics of a turbocharger turbine operating under realistic on-engine conditions, and on quantifying the impact on the performance. Often, simplified set-ups and geometries are employed, neglecting the heat transfer.This dissertation aimed to improve the quality of heat transfer analysis in a turbocharger turbine, and to enhance the understanding of aerothermodynamic effects due to heat transfer on the performance under engine-like pulsatile flow scenarios. Firstly, a flow exergy based analysis was developed to be used with the input provided by three-dimensional flow field data predicted by Detached Eddy Simulation (DES). Its applicability to identify and to quantify the aerothermodynamic related losses due to heat transfer was thoroughly investigated with a set-up replicating a hot gas stand continuous flow scenario. Next, the developed methodology was applied to engine-like pulsatile flow scenarios, to investigate the effects of flow pulsation and the influences of upstream exhaust manifold on the heat transfer and turbine performance. For the investigated geometry and specified boundary conditions, this dissertation mainly concluded that 1) The most sensitive measures associated with heat loss are the flow exergy lost via heat transfer and the thermal irreversibilities. The influence of heat loss on turbine power reduction is small in a relative sense, and 2) Although the exhaust manifold characteristics govern the fundamental flow physics and heat transfer in the scroll, its impact on the turbine power seems to be small relatively. The contributions with this dissertation were mainly twofold. Firstly, it contributes to a deeper understanding of the thermo-fluid physics of a turbocharger turbine operating under engine-like pulsating flow scenario. This knowledge might be useful for industrial product development in the future. Secondly, from academic perspective, the flow exergy budget analysis could potentially serve as a practical example to students in connecting the dots between classroom theory and real life engineering application.
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- Trigell, Emelie
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Operating conditions impact on flow and acoustics in turbocharger compressors
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Fluid machines are an integral part in energy conversion with applications from pumps, fans, propellers, compressors and turbines. In the automotive industry, turbochargers are commonly employed to counteract the effect of engine downsizing. However, designing efficient compressors with wide operating ranges and reduced noise emissions consitute a challenge.This thesis investigates flow instabilities and sound generation in turbocharger compressors, utilizing compressible Large Eddy Simulations (LES). The numerical approach is validated through sensitivity studies and comparison with measurement data. Three different compressor designs used in both light-duty and heavy-duty applications are examined with the aim of enhancing the understanding of rotating stall mechanism in real-world configurations and their impact on aerodynamically generated noise.The analysis employs compressible Navier-Stokes equations with a scale-resolving model, evaluating its robustness in comparison to other computational methods under various operating conditions. The system's response to time-varying boundary conditions is assessed, and the effect of pulse amplitude is quantified.Subsequently, the mechanism for aerodynamically generated noise, focusing on the broadband components are explored through analysis of the recirculation region. Resolving the Taylor micro-scale in the recirculation region enhances the understanding of the dynamics in this zone. It is demonstrated that an inlet recirculation zone develops near surge conditions, which is highly sensitive to the choice of boundary conditions and turbulence formulation. Passive flow control, such as the ported-shroud, are considered to illustrate their influence on performance, stability and noise.Finally, the system is studied using a two-port method, accounting for rotational effects. This provide insights into the transmission poperties at low frequencies (< 3 kHz) and the mechanism of sound generation. It is demonstrated that the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics can improve the understanding of flow-acoustic interaction in complex geometries. Additionally, the developed numerical simulation and post-processing methods have potential application in a range of turbochargr systems, from hybrids to fuel cell application.
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- Schickhofer, Lukas
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Modelling the Production and Propagation of Sound in Individual Human Vocal Tracts
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Voice generation and the expression through speech are of vital importance for communication. The human upper airways are the origin of the process of speech production, which involves a modulation of the periodically pulsed pressure from the lungs by the vocal tract volume. In this work, phonation and voiced speech are investigated through both low- and high-order models, which are applied to vocal tract geometries of increasing complexity. Initially, the effect of variations of vocal fold closure, fundamental frequency, and vocal tract length on the computed acoustic signal is examined through parameter studies based on one-dimensional wave reflection analogues. Eventually, unsteady large eddy simulations based on the compressible Navier-Stokes equations are carried out to compute the pressure fluctuations and the associated distribution of resonance modes as a result of the interaction with the static vocal tract. Thus it is possible to calculate tonalities from the entire audible range of frequencies from 20 to 20000 Hz. In particular the inharmonic broadband sound component produced predominantly by coherent structures in the upper airways and at frequencies above 2 kHz is resolved in the current study, which is not captured by low-order models based on wave equations. Furthermore, three-dimensional numerical meshes based on surface representations of the human upper airways under voiced speech from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of a healthy male subject are applied. These are necessary to resolve high-order acoustic modes that would not be represented by simplified geometries. Validation and verification of the chosen methods are achieved through comparison with experimentally obtained speech data, as well as Helmholtz eigenfrequencies of the considered vowel pronunciations. The main scope of this work is the assessment of acoustic sources and the conditions for aerodynamic sound being produced and propagated in the upper airways during phonation. The distribution of acoustic sources involved in the generation of the dominant frequencies are identified by application of acoustic analogies as well as surface Fourier transformation of the acoustic pressure fluctuations. However, the human upper airways do not only embrace the source of phonation and affect the modulation of the voice. Moreover, unwanted sounds may be generated in the upper airways due to elastic, collapsible parts that are susceptible to flow-induced vibration and resonance. The sound resulting from fluid-structure interaction in the upper respiratory tract, commonly known as snoring, can be an important indicator for underlying breathing disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). In a smaller part of this project, the flow structures and acoustic sources as a result of the interaction of shear flow of various Reynolds numbers with an elastic element are computed. The geometric dimensions are chosen to be representative of average physical values of the upper respiratory tract. Onset of tissue vibrations and resonance effects are investigated for a range of parameters of both solid and fluid. The obtained results of this work are aimed to contribute also to the development of a computational tool that assists physicians in the assessment of the airway function and the effectiveness of treatment plans prior to their application.
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- Ahn, Myeonghwan, et al.
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A numerical study on near-field pressure fluctuations of symmetrical and anti-symmetrical flapping modes of twin-jet using a high-resolution shock-capturing scheme
- 2021
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Ingår i: Aerospace Science and Technology. - : Elsevier. - 1270-9638 .- 1626-3219. ; , s. 107147-107147
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Screeching supersonic jets appears at off-design operating conditions and is perceived as an intense tonal noise. In a twin nozzle configuration, mutual interactions between the two jet plumes may occur with various coupling modes developing depending on the operating conditions and lateral distance between the jets. The investigation of the detailed flow behaviors and near-field pressure fluctuations with relevance to the twin jets system, the analysis of the developed instabilities, will enhance understanding of fundamental features associated with jets located close to each other.In the present study, the single jet is considered first to assess the large eddy simulation (LES) approach used and the near-field pressure fluctuation predictions. Based on the validated solver, twin jets are simulated. Two different twin-nozzle configurations having different separation distance or nozzle-to-nozzle centerline spacing are scrutinized for the same Mach number of 1.358. Notably, the twin jets are screeching by the coupling mode for both set-ups; however, the case of closer inter-nozzle distance presents a symmetrical dominant flapping mode, while the other case shows an anti-symmetrical flapping mode. The strength of the pressure fluctuation at the fundamental frequency changes depending on the location of the observer point (upstream or downstream) and the reference plane (twin-jet and normal to the twin-jet plane). The screech tones of the two cases, observable in the upstream region, are significantly different in the normal to the twin-jet plane direction because of the phase difference of fluctuating pressure. However, the first harmonic component remains strong, regardless of the flapping mode. It is also observed that, at the fundamental frequency, the amplitude of the pressure fluctuation at downstream locations is found to be strong in the normal to the twin-jet plane when the symmetrical flapping mode occurs. This feature is also observed in the twin-jet plane in the case of the opposite mode. By analyzing the developed vertical structures and performing correlation analyses of pressure fluctuations along jet shear layers, the periodicity of the flow in the downstream region with relevance to the fundamental frequency is revealed.
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- Ahn, MyeongHwan, et al.
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Effects of Temperature on the Characteristics of Twin Square Jets by Large Eddy Simulations
- 2022
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Ingår i: AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA SciTech Forum 2022. - Reston, Virginia : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study, we investigate the effects of temperature on the aerodynamic and aeroacoustics characteristics of twin square jets. Implicit Large Eddy Simulations (ILES) are performed for twin jets with a fixed nozzle pressure ratio (NPR) of 3.0 and temperature ratios (TR) of 1.0, 2.0, 4.0, and 7.0. A second-order central scheme is used to resolve acoustic waves, and an artificial dissipation model is applied to capture shock waves and to suppress non-physical oscillations. In addition, the variation of a specific heat ratio as function of temperature is considered under the chemical equilibrium assumption. The numerical results show that the length of potential core is reduced with the increase of temperature due to the enhanced mixing in jet shear layers which can be estimated by turbulent kinetic energy (TKE). Meanwhile, the fluctuations of the transverse velocity show different trends between the cases within the corresponding potential core length, which can be associated with the screeching phenomena of the twin-jet. As temperature increases, the convection Mach number in the jet shear layers is also increased so that the Mach wave is generated for TR of 2.0, 4.0, and 7.0. However, a crackle noise is only observed for TR of 4.0 and 7.0, whose generation is identified by the skewness and kurtosis factors. Relatively low temperature jets (TR of 1.0 and 2.0) are screeching so that peaks are observed in the spectra obtained upstream. On the other hand, broadband component is gradually increased when the jets are heated, and the largest increase is observed at the location exposed to the Mach wave radiation.
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- Ahn, Myeonghwan, et al.
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Flow and Near-field Pressure Fluctuations of Twin Square Jets
- 2021
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Ingår i: AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum, 2021. - Reston, Virginia : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We aim to investigate the aerodynamic and acoustics characteristics of a twin square jet using an implicit Large Eddy Simulation (ILES). A screeching cold jet condition, a nozzle pressure ratio (NPR) of 3.0, is considered to simulate a coupled twin-jet. A second-order central scheme with a modified version of Jameson’s artificial dissipation is adopted to damp numerical oscillations and to mimic the effect of small-scale turbulence without an explicit subgrid-scale (SGS) model. Numerical results show that the overall trends of time-averaged streamwise velocity profiles are similar to the experimental data, with the largest differences observed at locations associated with the presence of the shock-cell structures. A detailed investigation of the flow fluctuations in jet shear layers is performed. The amplitude of the velocity fluctuations is highly dependent on the location of the shear layers with respect to the twin-jet configuration (upper, lateral, or inner). The coupling mode of twin jets associated with the screech tone is determined as a symmetrical flapping mode be a two-points spacetime cross-correlation analysis. The overall trends of near-field pressure fluctuation spectra by LES agree well with the experimental results in both upstream and downstream regions. Near-field pressure fluctuation spectra by ILES agree well with the experimentally obtained spectra at different locations in the nozzle exit plane as well as at several downstream locations in the near-field acoustic region. The highest screech tone is observed at the inter-nozzle region where superposition of in-phase waves and standing waves are found. Fourier phase and amplitude fields at the fundamental frequency also confirm the symmetrical flapping mode of the twin jets by showing in-phase relations of hydrodynamic/acoustic waves and noise directivities.
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- Ahn, MyeongHwan, et al.
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Large-eddy simulations of flow and aeroacoustics of twin square jets including turbulence tripping
- 2023
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Ingår i: Physics of fluids. - : AIP Publishing. - 1070-6631 .- 1089-7666. ; 35:6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study, we investigate the flow and aeroacoustics of twin square (i.e., aspect ratio of 1.0) jets by implicit large-eddy simulations (LESs) under a nozzle pressure ratio of 3.0 and a temperature ratio of 1.0 conditions. A second-order central scheme coupled with a modified Jameson's artificial dissipation is used to resolve acoustics as well as to capture discontinuous solutions, e.g., shock waves. The flow boundary layer inside of the nozzle is tripped, using a small step in the convergent section of the nozzle. The time-averaged axial velocity and turbulent kinetic energy of LES with boundary layer tripping approaches better to particle image velocimetry experimental data than the LES without turbulence tripping case. A two-point space–time cross-correlation analysis suggests that the twin jets are screeching and are coupled to each other in a symmetrical flapping mode. Intense pressure fluctuations and standing waves are observed between the jets. Spectral proper orthogonal decomposition (SPOD) confirms the determined mode and the relevant wave propagation. The upstream propagating mode associated with the shock-cell structures is confined inside jets. Far-field noise obtained by solving Ffowcs Williams and Hawkings equation is in good agreement with the measured acoustic data. The symmetrical flapping mode of twin jets yields different levels of the screech tone depending on observation planes. The tonalities—the fundamental tone, second and third harmonics—appear clearly in the far-field, showing different contributions at angles corresponding to the directivities revealed by SPOD.
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- Ceci, Alessandro, et al.
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Computational analysis of the indirect combustion noise generation mechanism in a nozzle guided vane in transonic operating conditions
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Sound and Vibration. - : Elsevier. - 0022-460X .- 1095-8568. ; 496
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The combustion noise in modern engines is mainly originating from two types of mechanisms. First, chemical reactions in the combustion chamber leads to an unsteady heat release which is responsible of the direct combustion noise. Second, hot and cold blobs of air coming from the combustion chamber are advected and accelerated through turbine stages, giving rise to entropy noise (or indirect combustion noise). In the present work, numerical characterization of indirect combustion noise of a Nozzle Guide Vane passage was assessed using three-dimensional Large Eddy Simulations. The present work offers an overview to the analytical, computational and experimental studies of the topic. Numerical simulations are conducted to reproduce the effects of incoming planar entropy waves from the combustion chamber and to characterize the generated acoustic power. The dynamic features of the flow are addressed by the means of frequency domain and modal analyses techniques such as Fourier Decomposition and Proper Orthogonal Decomposition. Finally, the predicted entropy noise from numerical calculations is compared with the analytical results of an actuator disk model for a stator stage. The present paper proves that the generated indirect combustion noise can be significant for transonic operating conditions. The blade acoustic response is characterized by the excitation of a latent dynamics at the forcing frequency of the planar entropy waves, and it increases as the amplitude of the incoming disturbances increases.
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