A high-resolution code for large eddy simulation of incompressible turbulent boundary layer flows
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Cheng, WanSamtaney, Ravi

KAUST Department
Clean Combustion Research CenterFluid and Plasma Simulation Group (FPS)
Mechanical Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Date
2014-03Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/563412
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We describe a framework for large eddy simulation (LES) of incompressible turbulent boundary layers over a flat plate. This framework uses a fractional-step method with fourth-order finite difference on a staggered mesh. We present several laminar examples to establish the fourth-order accuracy and energy conservation property of the code. Furthermore, we implement a recycling method to generate turbulent inflow. We use the stretched spiral vortex subgrid-scale model and virtual wall model to simulate the turbulent boundary layer flow. We find that the case with Reθ ≈ 2.5 × 105 agrees well with available experimental measurements of wall friction, streamwise velocity profiles and turbulent intensities. We demonstrate that for cases with extremely large Reynolds numbers (Reθ = 1012), the present LES can reasonably predict the flow with a coarse mesh. The parallel implementation of the LES code demonstrates reasonable scaling on O(103) cores. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.Citation
Cheng, W., & Samtaney, R. (2014). A high-resolution code for large eddy simulation of incompressible turbulent boundary layer flows. Computers & Fluids, 92, 82–92. doi:10.1016/j.compfluid.2013.12.001Sponsors
This work was funded by KAUST. We gratefully acknowledge the use of Shaheen supercomputer to perform the simulations reported in this paper.Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Computers & Fluidsae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.compfluid.2013.12.001