Journal
THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS LETTERS
Volume 6, Issue 6, Pages 302-305Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.taml.2016.11.004
Keywords
Underwater vehicle; SUBOFF; Immersed boundary method; Large eddy simulation; Adaptive mesh refinement
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11302238, 11232011, 11572331]
- Strategic Priority Research Program [XDB22040104]
- Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [QYZDJ-SSW-SYS002]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2013CB834100]
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A large eddy simulation (LES) of the flows around an underwater vehicle model at intermediate Reynolds numbers is performed. The underwater vehicle model is taken as the DARPA SUBOFF with full appendages, where the Reynolds number based on the hull length is 1.0 x 10(5). An immersed boundary method based on the moving-least-squares reconstruction is used to handle the complex geometric boundaries. The adaptive mesh refinement is utilized to resolve the flows near the hull. The parallel scalabilities of the flow solver are tested on meshes with the number of cells varying from 50 million to 3.2 billion. The parallel solver reaches nearly linear scalability for the flows around the underwater vehicle model. The present simulation captures the essential features of the vortex structures near the hull and in the wake. Both of the time-averaged pressure coefficients and streamwise velocity profiles obtained from the LES are consistent with the characteristics of the flows pass an appended axisymmetric body. The code efficiency and its correct predictions on flow features allow us to perform the full-scale simulations on tens of thousands of cores with billions of grid points for higher-Reynolds-number flows around the underwater vehicles. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
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