Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer in a Transitional Boundary Layer With Passing Wakes

Author:

Wu X.1,Durbin P. A.1

Affiliation:

1. Center for Integrated Turbulence Simulation and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Building 500, Stanford, CA 94305-3030

Abstract

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) has been used to investigate heat transfer and provide thermal statistics in a transitional flow in which turbulent wakes traversing the inlet periodically are swept downstream across a constant-temperature flat-plate. The same heat transfer problem was also computed using unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) method with the v2-f turbulence model. During transition, the instantaneous Stanton number field exhibits spotlike structure, which in turn results in a strong streamwise modulation in the phase-averaged Stanton number distribution. At molecular Prandtl number Pr=0.7, the Reynolds analogy factor decreases in the transitional region but remains nearly constant afterwards. After the completion of transition, mean and second-order temperature statistics are in good agreement with previous experimental data from slightly heated turbulent flat-plate boundary layers. Throughout the transitional and turbulent regions the turbulent Prandtl number increases sharply as the wall is asymptotically approached. DNS results at a higher wake passing frequency are also presented to illustrate the effect of freestream turbulence. Unsteady RANS predictions of the time- and phase-averaged Stanton numbers as well as the enthalpy thickness are in reasonable agreement with the DNS. [S0022-1481(00)02002-8]

Publisher

ASME International

Subject

Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science

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