Research Article

Comparative Study on Steady and Unsteady Flow in a Centrifugal Compressor Stage

Table 2

Comparison of numerical setup between the RANS and URANS simulations.

SettingRANS (Kim et al. [17])URANS (current work)

Turbulence modelStandard turbulence model with scalable wall function
Advection schemeHigh-resolution advection scheme
TurbulenceFirst-order upwind scheme
Rotor-stator interfaceMixing-plane interfaceSliding interface
Transient schemeā€”Second-order backward Euler