Journal
COMPUTERS & FLUIDS
Volume 165, Issue -, Pages 127-143Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2018.01.003
Keywords
Synthetic turbulence generation; Turbulent boundary layers; Multi-stream internal flows; Large-eddy simulations; Compressible flow
Funding
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-14-10167, FA9550-15-1-0435]
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) Program
- SMART Fellowship Program
- Office of Naval Research through the N-STAR program
- Office of Naval Research through the Naval Innovative Science & Engineering (NISE) program
- DoD HPCMP
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An improved synthetic digital filtering method (SDFM) for the generation of equilibrium turbulence is described, with emphasis on the ease of application to complex configurations. This is achieved by facilitating the use of modeled (RANS) statistics for the mean flow and Reynolds stress profiles, instead of simulated (DNS or LES) statistics that are not readily available for three-dimensional flows. The effects on boundary layer relaxation with modeled statistics are first quantified for a well-known canonical situation, specifically, Mach 2 equilibrium turbulent boundary layers over 250 < Re-theta < 2220. Various convergence criteria are assessed in terms of the streamwise coordinate (x) normalized by the incoming boundary layer thickness (delta(0)). These include skin-friction, which requires x/delta(0) approximate to 12 for equilibrium, inner scale mean velocity (x/delta(0) approximate to 16), inner scale Reynolds stresses (x/delta(0) approximate to 18), as well as outer scale mean velocity, Reynolds stresses, and spatio-temporal correlations (x/delta(0) approximate to 40-50). Development lengths are shown to be inversely related to Reynolds number. In terms of boundary layer relaxation length, initializing the method with RANS (versus simulated) statistics incurs a negligible penalty in inner coordinatesand a mild penalty (x/delta(0) approximate to 5-10) in outer coordinates. The effectiveness of this approach is then demonstrated by application to significantly more complex three-dimensional flows, including internal single and multi -stream flows, for which synthetic turbulence generation techniques are necessary, but precursor high-fidelity simulations are not available. Thus, the RANS-initialized SDFM provides a rapidly adaptable method for the synthetic generation of wall -bounded turbulence. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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