Computational analysis and design of fan blade configurations for optimal fan performance characteristics

• Main Author: Ng, Wai Keet
• Other Authors: Murali Damodaran
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/5293
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis describes the computational analysis of industrial centrifugal fans using incompressible Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes equations in sliding meshes and the optimization of fan performance characteristics using genetic algorithm with a reduced order modeling technique called proper ortho...