Air duct modification towards outlet pressure drop and vibration level reduction

Abstract

In this work complete methodology for calculation and analysis of fluid flow in air ducts is presented. In order to minimize outlet pressure drop and to reduce the duct vibrations the plates with airfoil cross sections are added to duct critical zones. It was observed that airfoil stream plates efficiently contribute to outlet pressure drop, duct vibration and noise reduction. Modern methods such as CFD and FEA can be efficiently deployed in numerical treatise of flow and vibration analysis in air ducts.

Keywords

• turbulent flow
• air duct
• vibrations
• airfoil