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| Knowledge Center Organic Rankine Cycle |
It is official.
Welcome back home ORC community!

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| Knowledge Center Organic Rankine Cycle |
It is official.

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| Dr. Emil GÖTTLICH |
We are glad that our colleague Dr. Emil GÖTTLICH from the Institute for Thermal Turbomachinery and Machine Dynamics at the Graz University of Technology, is visiting the LFM and the CREA Lab for two months. Emil will work with Fabio Cozzi on a novel Background-Oriented Schlieren bench and contribute to optical measurements in the TROVA.
Welcome Emil!

The pictures show preliminary result for virtual Schlieren visualization of a shock wave (bright line) and a rarefaction fan (dark region).
Top left picture shows the result obtained with a knife angle of 90 deg, a knife angle of 45 deg produces result shown in top right figure while in the bottom row are presented respectively a knife angle of 0 deg and an angle of 31 deg.
This latter value is the one corresponding to the shock-wave slope, so thath’s why the shock is badly highlighted!
Tthe flow field was computed using SU2!
We’re currently working on CUDA implementation, results will be available soon!

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| Stanford campus |
We had a wonderful time in Palo Alto working with Juan J. Alonso, Francisco Palacios and Thomas Economon from Stanford University on the extension of SU2 to deal with non-ideal compressible-fluid flows, together with Piero Colonna, Matteo Pini and Salvo Vitale from TU Delft.
Matteo and Salvo from TUDelft will visit on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of June to initiate the collaboration on SU2 and prepare our visit to Stanford next July.