Two days with the meshless CFD community in Modena. The proceedings are online: slides, recordings and the key findings of every talk the speakers released.
Heat, air and wear, seen through meshless simulation.
Three talks closed thermal models with a fast steady CHT: minutes to a day per case, and every gap against the bench stated (about 5–6 °C worst on the pump, up to about 12 % on the roller oil).
On one sphere the same code returned an HTC of 66 or 169 W/m²K depending on where it was sampled; one air content (0.65 %) hid bubbles of 132 µm or 68 µm.
Optical bubble data took a gearbox aeration model from 0.12 % to 0.45 % air against a measured 0.43 %, and from 800 to 186 µm bubbles against 180 µm.
Pelton torque loss and the wear zones of a separator housing were predicted; doubling the separator flow rate, the obvious fix, lifted the sand lost from 10 % to 25 %.
Abstracts of all eleven talks are open. Slides, recordings and key findings open after a short form. The Prometech, IAV and Univance talks are slides only.
One short form gives access to every released talk. This browser keeps the access for 7 days. Earlier editions stay online.