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Evaluation of sub grid scale and local wall models in Large-eddy simulations of separated flow

Al Sam, Ali LU ; Szász, Robert-Zoltán LU and Revstedt, Johan LU (2015) Second Symposium on OpenFOAM® in Wind Energy In E3S Web of Conferences 5.
Abstract
The performance of the Sub Grid Scale models is studied by simulating a separated flow over a wavy channel. The first and second order statistical moments of the resolved velocities obtained by using Large-Eddy simulations at different mesh resolutions are compared with Direct Numerical Simulations data. The effectiveness of modeling the wall stresses by using local log-law is then tested on a relatively coarse grid. The results exhibit a good agreement between highly-resolved Large Eddy Simulations and Direct Numerical Simulations data regardless the Sub Grid Scale models. However, the agreement is less satisfactory with relatively coarse grid without using any wall models and the differences between Sub Grid Scale models are... (More)
The performance of the Sub Grid Scale models is studied by simulating a separated flow over a wavy channel. The first and second order statistical moments of the resolved velocities obtained by using Large-Eddy simulations at different mesh resolutions are compared with Direct Numerical Simulations data. The effectiveness of modeling the wall stresses by using local log-law is then tested on a relatively coarse grid. The results exhibit a good agreement between highly-resolved Large Eddy Simulations and Direct Numerical Simulations data regardless the Sub Grid Scale models. However, the agreement is less satisfactory with relatively coarse grid without using any wall models and the differences between Sub Grid Scale models are distinguishable. Using local wall model returned the basic flow topology and reduced significantly the differences between the coarse meshed Large-Eddy Simulations and Direct Numerical Simulations data. The results show that the ability of local wall model to predict the separation zone depends strongly on its implementation way. (Less)
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2nd Symposium on OpenFOAM® in Wind Energy
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E3S Web of Conferences
editor
J. Churchfield, Matthew
volume
5
article number
03002
pages
11 pages
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EDP Sciences
conference name
Second Symposium on OpenFOAM® in Wind Energy
conference location
Boulder, Colorado, United States
conference dates
2014-05-19 - 2014-05-21
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  • scopus:85016417096
DOI
10.1051/e3sconf/20150503002
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English
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  abstract     = {{The performance of the Sub Grid Scale models is studied by simulating a separated flow over a wavy channel. The first and second order statistical moments of the resolved velocities obtained by using Large-Eddy simulations at different mesh resolutions are compared with Direct Numerical Simulations data. The effectiveness of modeling the wall stresses by using local log-law is then tested on a relatively coarse grid. The results exhibit a good agreement between highly-resolved Large Eddy Simulations and Direct Numerical Simulations data regardless the Sub Grid Scale models. However, the agreement is less satisfactory with relatively coarse grid without using any wall models and the differences between Sub Grid Scale models are distinguishable. Using local wall model returned the basic flow topology and reduced significantly the differences between the coarse meshed Large-Eddy Simulations and Direct Numerical Simulations data. The results show that the ability of local wall model to predict the separation zone depends strongly on its implementation way.}},
  author       = {{Al Sam, Ali and Szász, Robert-Zoltán and Revstedt, Johan}},
  booktitle    = {{2nd Symposium on OpenFOAM® in Wind Energy}},
  editor       = {{J. Churchfield, Matthew}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{10}},
  publisher    = {{EDP Sciences}},
  series       = {{E3S Web of Conferences}},
  title        = {{Evaluation of sub grid scale and local wall models in Large-eddy simulations of separated flow}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20150503002}},
  doi          = {{10.1051/e3sconf/20150503002}},
  volume       = {{5}},
  year         = {{2015}},
}