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Assessment of an Enhanced Thin Film Model to Capture Wetting and Drying Behavior in an Aero-Engine Bearing Chamber (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Singh, K., Sharabi, M., Ambrose, S., Eastwick, C., Jefferson-Loveday, R., Cao, J., & Jacobs, A. (2019). Assessment of an Enhanced Thin Film Model to Capture Wetting and Drying Behavior in an Aero-Engine Bearing Chamber. In Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2019 Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition

In the present work, a wetting and drying model is coupled with Eulerian Thin-Film model (ETFM) to analyze the wetting and drying behavior inside the bearing chamber. In the enhanced model, an additional source term is included to account for the con... Read More about Assessment of an Enhanced Thin Film Model to Capture Wetting and Drying Behavior in an Aero-Engine Bearing Chamber.

Prediction of Film Thickness of an Aero-Engine Bearing Chamber using Coupled VOF and Thin Film Model (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Singh, K., Sharabi, M., Ambrose, S., Eastwick, C., & Jefferson-Loveday, R. J. (2019). Prediction of Film Thickness of an Aero-Engine Bearing Chamber using Coupled VOF and Thin Film Model. In Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2019 Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition

In the present work, a coupled volume-of-fluid (VOF) model with Eulerian thin-film model (ETFM) approach is used to predict the film thickness in an aero-engine bearing chamber. Numerical studies are conducted for a wide range of shaft speeds with lu... Read More about Prediction of Film Thickness of an Aero-Engine Bearing Chamber using Coupled VOF and Thin Film Model.

Multiphase Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of External Oil Flow From a Journal Bearing (2018)
Journal Article
Berthold, M., Morvan, H., Jefferson-Loveday, R., Young, C., Rothwell, B. C., & Ambrose, S. (2019). Multiphase Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of External Oil Flow From a Journal Bearing. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 141(5), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4041517

High loads and bearing life requirements make journal bearings a potential choice for use in high power, epicyclic gearboxes in jet engines. Particularly, in a planetary configuration , the kinematic conditions are complex. With the planet gears rota... Read More about Multiphase Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of External Oil Flow From a Journal Bearing.

Numerical modelling of the rise of Taylor bubbles through a change in pipe diameter (2017)
Journal Article
Ambrose, S., Lowndes, I. S., Hargreaves, D., & Azzopardi, B. (2017). Numerical modelling of the rise of Taylor bubbles through a change in pipe diameter. Computers and Fluids, 148, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2017.01.023

The rise of Taylor bubbles through expansions in vertical pipes is modelled using Computational Fluid Dynamics. The predictions from the models are compared against existing experimental work and show good agreement, both quantitatively and qualitati... Read More about Numerical modelling of the rise of Taylor bubbles through a change in pipe diameter.

Numerical modeling of oscillating Taylor bubbles (2016)
Journal Article
Ambrose, S., Hargreaves, D. M., & Lowndes, I. (2016). Numerical modeling of oscillating Taylor bubbles. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 10(1), 578-598. https://doi.org/10.1080/19942060.2016.1224737

© 2016 The Author(s). In this study, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling is used to simulate Taylor bubbles rising in vertical pipes. Experiments indicate that in large diameter (0.29 m) pipes for an air-water system, the bubbles can rise in... Read More about Numerical modeling of oscillating Taylor bubbles.