Affiliation:
1. State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2. Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Abstract
In the present work, large eddy simulation coupled with immersed boundary (LES-IB) method is applied to simulate a backward facing step (BFS) flow, which is a canonical fluid dynamics problem involving flow separation, recirculation and reattachment that are common in many practical applications. The computed reattachment length, a primary parameter to evaluate the overall performance of the numerical method, shows promising accuracy in the present work compared to the alternative numerical simulations. Based on the mean velocity profiles at four representative locations, there is fairly well quantitative agreement among the present LES-IB, DNS and the experiment. The results reveal that the reverse flow in the reattachment region leads to little over-prediction of the reattachment length compared to the DNS result. Furthermore, second-order statistics are in good agreement with the reference data in spite of discrepancies in the recirculation and reattachment region owing to complex flow structure, verifying the accuracy of the present method. In addition, the instantaneous flow fields are also analyzed to show the capability of the present LES-IB method in vortex-capture, and one may see the transient process of flow separation based on the analysis of Lagrangian coherent structure (LCS).
Funder
Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology
Beijing Natural Science Foundation
the National Natural Science Foundation of China
National Key R&D Program of China
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