LES of Separated Flows at Moderate Reynolds

Numbers Appropriate for Turbine Blades and

Unmanned Aero Vehicles
Francois Cadieux (USC), Taraneh Sayadi
(CTR), J. Andrzej Domaradzki (USC)

and Sanjeeb Bose, Curtis Hamman

Our goal: assess LES capabilities to reduce computational

requirements for simulating separated flows significantly, to
O(1%) of DNS resolution, typical of LES of turbulent flows
Test bed: DNS database
of Spalart and Strelets,
JFM 403, 2000; mesh
size about 15 million
points implying LES
resolution target O(105)

First two weeks:

Performed LES and no-model simulations for the dynamic model with 4.4% of DNS resolution
displacement thickness

momentum thickness

Cf

Cp

Last two weeks:

To have one-to-one comparison full DNS is currently run with 4x Spalarats
resolution (Nx = 1536, Ny = 300, Nz = 128; x+ = 10, y+ = 0.5, z + = 8)
Investigate transition in the shear layer above the bubble and turbulence
behind the bubble where LES does not match DNS data
Implement and evaluate additional SGS models developed at USC
Encourage other participants to apply their programs/models to this simple and
well documented problem