1D system transients coupled with 3D local flow details

The case is studied numerically with two approaches. It is found that the settings used in the 1D approach are insufficient to model the oscillations in the system, although the global pressure behaviour of the flow is correctly captured. This suggests that the physics governing the oscillating behaviour is not included in the numerical set-up.

The results from a 3D approach capture the increment in pressure as a function of gate closure quite well. The focus in the near future should be to finish validating the parallelization of such a case, as well as moving to a 1D-3D model approach.