Computational Project

Gas Dynamics
Using Ansys Fluent

Select a design exit Mach # (M>1), set up a converging-diverging nozzle CFD

simulation to recreate the following flows:

1. Sub-sonic choked flow condition

2. Super-sonic design condition
3. Increase the back pressure from part 2 enough to have a Normal Shock in
the diverging section of the nozzle
4. Increase the back pressure from part 2 enough to have an Oblique Shock
outside of the nozzle
5. Decrease the back pressure from part 2, to have expansion waves outside
the nozzle
6. Compare all the above CFD results to the theoretical 1D calculations done in
class
7. Summarize all finding in an Engineering report

All cases should be run with the same inlet pressure.

Prof. P.Q. Gauthier Gas Dynamics Summer 2020