https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202226901073
Design of air nozzle for air curtains
VZLÚ - Czech Aerospace Research Centre, Beranových 130, 19905 Praha 9 - Letˇnany, Czech republic
* e-mail: zizkovsky@vzlu.cz
Published online: 24 October 2022
The procedure, which is used in the design of the air nozzle intended to be used on air curtain, is described in this work. The present work is focused on the isolated flow of one air nozzle, while next work will continue with air nozzles constellation. Nozzle reach in the flow field is monitored with and without tangential flow simulating non-isothermal flow. Several basic shapes of nozzles with the same cross-section are evaluated. After searching the design space of the parametric CAD model simulated in isothermal flow – without tangential flow, the best configuration with the longest range were selected. From this smaller set of nozzles was selected one nozzle with the highest directional stability in non-isothermal flow field. The shape of the nozzle with minimal directional deviation in the non-isothermal flow is subsequently optimized by the adjoint method. This method makes it possible to further reduce the pressure loss in the distribution element by deforming the shape according to the local sensitivity of cost function on shape deformation. The final step of design process is to verify effect of modified nozzle on both isothermal and non-isothermal flow filed.
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