1 Minihap Project data Title: Enhanced design and manufacturing of mini- hydraulic products Project type: GROWTH project of the EU Reference: GDR Period: 01/01/ /01/2003 Collaborators: Guillaume Houzeaux
2 Objectives To model rotating flows around pumps To reproduce the pressure-flow rate curve To account for fixed and moving regions
3 Key numerical ingredients Stabilized finite element approximation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations Treatment of dominant rotation Domain decomposition between fixed and moving subdomains Fixed mesh ALE strategy
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