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Comparison of Different Turbulent Approaches (RANS,DES and ILES) for Lid Driven Cavity Flows

Approach To Problem
Compressible flow numerical scheme (Jamesons central scheme and HLLC Riemann solver) is employed to simulate the flow using RANS,DES and ILES turbulent approaches and the activity is carried out with the DLR`s FLOWer code.

Vipin Kumar Gupta

Supervisors: Dr B. Zhong & Dr E. Shapiro Results


Preconditioning effect pertinent to compressible solver (FLOWer code) (Channel flow and open cavity flow case) Preconditioning effect-Channel flow case.

Introduction

Contours for vorticity magnitude at midplane (parallel to bottom surface) for different simulationsLaminar, RANS, DES and ILES

Cavity flow consists of various features such as flow re-circulation, secondary eddies, wall bounded turbulent and shear layers. These features are extensively encountered in heat and momentum transfer mechanism of several engineering devices. Detailed study of mentioned cavity flow features is required to predict and improve the performance of these devices. Over the period of time, several turbulent approaches have been developed to simulate these features. A comparative study is performed for three turbulent approaches: RANS, DES and ILES, through lid driven cavity.

Iso-surface of vorticity magnitude -open cavity flow. Iso-surface of vorticity magnitude for lid driven cavity flow simulationDES (top) and ILES (bottom) with fine grid Vorticity magnitude contour at three planes ILES approach Coarse(65x65x65) (top)/fine(135x135x 135)(Bottom) grid

Comparison for mean velocity distribution with different turbulent approaches

Basic flow features of Lid driven cavity flow

Conclusions
The results( mean velocity profiles in the two reporting lines at the symmetry plane) are compared for all the modelling approaches (ILES, DES and RANS) with the available experimental data. As compressible solver is used to compute the incompressible flow problem, Preconditioning effects (pertinent to compressible solver) are also investigated through two test cases- channel flow and open cavity flow. On comparing the results obtained from all three approaches, we found that ILES simulation, with fine grid, resulted in excellent correlation of mean velocity distribution with the experimental results in the core of cavity as well as near the walls. Moreover this method seems to be the appropriate turbulent approach (with the use of high resolution method like HLLC Riemann solver) in simulating the small eddies near the walls of cavity. Results show that ILES approach is suitable for the simulation of wall-bounded turbulent flow through a lid driven cavity.

Diagram for Lid driven cavity flow

September 2007

MSc Computational Fluid Dynamics School of Engineering

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