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Predicting Flow-Induced Acoustics at Near-Stall Conditions in an Automotive Turbocharger Compressor

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So far, a CFD model of a centrifugal compressor has been implemented in Star-CCM+ [1], taking as a reference the setup used by Mendonça et al. [2].

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Navarro García, R. (2018). Sensitivity of Compressor Noise Prediction to Numerical Setup. In: Predicting Flow-Induced Acoustics at Near-Stall Conditions in an Automotive Turbocharger Compressor. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72248-1_4

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