The next turbulent flow CFD example involves design of the stator for a

vane-axial flow fan that is to be used to drive a wind tunnel. The overall fan
diameter is D _ 1. m, and the design point of the fan is at an axial-flow
speed of V _ m s. The stator vanes span from radius r _ rhub _ .2 m
at the hub to r _ rtip _ . m at the tip. The stator vanes are upstream of
the rotor blades in this design (Fig. 1 ). A preliminary stator vane shape
is chosen that has a trailing edge angle of bst _ and a chord length of
2 cm. At any value of radius r, the actual amount of turning depends on the
number of stator vanes we expect that the fewer the number of vanes, the
smaller the a erage angle at which the flow is turned by the stator vanes
because of the greater spacing between vanes. It is our goal to determine the
minimum number of stator vanes required so that the flow impinging on the
leading edges of the rotor blades (located one chord length downstream of
the stator vane trailing edges) is turned at an average angle of at least .
We also require there to be no significant flow separation from the stator
vane surface.
As a first approximation, w