A novel dynamic forcing scheme incorporating backscatter for hybrid RANS/LES
| dc.contributor.author | Xun, Qianqiu | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Tachie, Mark (Mechanical Engineering) Clark, Shawn (Civil Engineering) Groth, Clinton (Institute for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Wang, Bing-Chen (Mechanical Engineering) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-09T21:45:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-01-09T21:45:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-07-25 | en_US |
| dc.degree.discipline | Mechanical Engineering | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In hybrid RANS/LES, Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations method is used to treat the near-wall region and large-eddy simulation (LES) is applied to the core turbulent region. Owing to the incompatibility of these two numerical modelling approaches, an artificial (i.e., non-physical) buffer layer forms along the interface where the model switches from RANS to LES. In this thesis, a novel dynamic forcing scheme incorporating backscatter is proposed in order to remove the artificial buffer layer. In contrast to previous forcing techniques, the proposed forcing is determined dynamically from the flow field itself, and does not require any extraction of turbulent fields from reference direct numerical simulation (DNS) or high-resolution LES databases. The proposed forcing model has been tested on three types of wall-bounded turbulent flows, namely, turbulent flow in a plane channel; turbulent flow in a spanwise rotating channel; and turbulent flow in a spanwise rotating rib-roughened channel. In order to validate the present hybrid approach, turbulence statistics obtained from hybrid RANS/LES simulations are thoroughly compared with the available DNS results and laboratory measurement data. Based on the study of a plane channel flow, transport equations for the resolved turbulent stresses and kinetic energy are introduced to investigate the effects of dynamic forcing on reduction of the thickness and impact of the artificial buffer layer. As long as the dynamic forcing is in use, the artificial buffer layer have been successfully removed, indicating that the proposed hybrid approach is insensitive to the choices of the forcing region or interface location. The predictive performance of the dynamic forcing scheme has been further evaluated by considering turbulent flows subjected to a special type of body force, i.e., the non-inertial and non-conservative Coriolis force. Due to the effects of system rotation, turbulence level is enhanced on the pressure side and suppressed on the suction side of the rotating channel. Furthermore, it is reported in this thesis that the classification of the roughness type now relies not only on the pitch ratio, but also on the rotation number in the context of rotating rib-roughened flows. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | February 2016 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Q.-Q. Xun and B.-C. Wang. A dynamic forcing scheme incorporating backscatter for hybrid simulation. Physics of Fluids, vol. 26, no. 075104, pp. 1--27, 2014. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31015 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | AIP Publishing | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Turbulence modelling, CFD, LES, Hybrid RANS/LES | en_US |
| dc.title | A novel dynamic forcing scheme incorporating backscatter for hybrid RANS/LES | en_US |
| dc.type | doctoral thesis | en_US |