三维边界层内定常横流涡的感受性研究

层流向湍流转捩的预测与控制一直是研究的前沿热点问题之一,其中感受性阶段是转捩过程中的初始阶段,它决定着湍流产生或形成的物理过程.但是有关三维边界层内感受性问题的数值和理论研究都比较少;实际工程问题中大部分转捩过程都是发生在三维边界层流中,所以研究三维边界层中的感受性问题显得尤为重要.本文以典型的后掠角45?无限长平板为例,数值研究了在三维壁面局部粗糙作用下的三维边界层感受性问题,探讨了三维边界层感受性问题与三维壁面局部粗糙长、宽和高之间的关系;然后,考虑在后掠平板上设计不同的三维壁面局部粗糙的分布状态、几何形状、距离后掠平板前缘的位置以及流向和展向设计多个三维壁面局部粗糙对三维边界层感受性问题有何影响;最后,讨论两两三维壁面局部粗糙中心点之间的距离以及后掠角的改变对三维边界层感受性的物理过程将会发生何种影响等.这一问题的深入研究将为三维边界层流中层流向湍流转捩过程的认识和理解提供理论依据.     

High-order shock-fitting methods for direct numerical simulation of hypersonic flow with chemical and thermal nonequilibrium

In recent years, much progress has been made in the direct numerical simulation of laminar-turbulent transition of hypersonic boundary layer flow. However, most of the efforts at the direct numerical simulation of transition previously have been focused on the idealized perfect gas flow or “cold” hypersonic flows. For practical problems in hypersonic flows, high-temperature effects of thermal and chemical nonequilibrium are important and cannot be modeled by a perfect gas model. Therefore, it is necessary to include the real gas models in the numerical simulation of hypersonic boundary layer transition in order to accurately predict flow field parameters. Currently most numerical methods for hypersonic flow with thermo-chemical nonequilibrium are based on shock-capturing approach at relatively low order of accuracy. Shock capturing schemes reduce to first-order accuracy near the shock and have been shown to produce spurious oscillations behind curved strong shocks. There is a need to develop new methods capable of simulating nonequilibrium hypersonic flow fields with uniformly high-order accuracy and avoid spurious oscillations near the shock. This paper presents a fifth-order shock-fitting method for numerical simulation of thermal and chemical nonequilibrium in hypersonic flows. The method is developed based on the state-of-the-art real gas models for thermo-chemical nonequilibrium and transport phenomena. Shock-fitting approach is used because it has the advantage of capturing the entire flow field with high-order accuracy and without any oscillations near the shock. The new method has been tested and validated for a number of test cases over a wide span of free stream conditions. The developed method is applied for the study of receptivity of free stream acoustic waves over a blunt cone for hypervelocity flow. Some preliminary results of the computations of the high order shock fitting method for the above mentioned study have also been presented.     

A high-order cut-cell method for numerical simulation of hypersonic boundary-layer instability with surface roughness

Laminar-turbulent transition of hypersonic boundary layers can be affected significantly by the existence of surface roughness. Currently many important mechanisms of roughness-induced transition are not well understood. In recent years, direct numerical simulation (DNS) has been extensively applied for investigating instability and transition mechanisms of hypersonic boundary layers. Most of the past DNS studies, however, have been based on body-fitted grids for smooth surfaces without roughness. Due to complex geometry of embedded roughness, the use of body-fitted grids can be very difficult for flow with arbitrary surface roughness. In this paper, we present a new high-order cut-cell method to overcome the natural complexities in grid generation around arbitrary surface of roughness. The new method combines a non-uniform-grid finite-difference method for discrete grid points near the solid boundary and a shock-fitting method for the treatment of the bow shock. The non-uniform-grid finite-difference formulas are expressed in a general explicit form so that they can be applied to different multi-dimensional problems without any modification. The computational accuracy of new algorithms of up to O(h⁴) are tested on several one- and two-dimensional elliptic equations in irregular domains. In addition, the new method is applied to the simulation of the receptivity process of a Mach 5.92 flow over a flat plate under the combined effect of an isolated surface roughness element and surface blow and suction. A good agreement is found between the unsteady flow results and those obtained by a Linear Stability Theory (LST).     

三维边界层内诱导横流失稳模态的感受性机理

边界层感受性问题是层流向湍流转捩的初始阶段,在转捩过程中起关键性作用,尤其是三维边界层流动.因此,研究三维边界层感受性问题对进一步理解层流向湍流转捩机理以及湍流成因具有重要的理论意义.采用数值方法研究自由来流湍流与三维壁面局部粗糙相互作用下三维边界层的感受性问题,确定是否能在三维边界层内寻找一种新的横流失稳模态;确定在何种条件下三维边界层内能诱导出定常、非定常的横流失稳模态;探索自由来流湍流的强度、展向波数和法向波数以及三维壁面局部粗糙的大小和结构类型等因素在自由来流湍流与三维壁面局部粗糙作用下三维边界层内被激发出的感受性过程中有何影响,并确定何种横流失稳模态在三维边界层感受性过程中占据何种地位.对自由来流湍流与三维壁面局部粗糙作用激发三维边界层内感受性问题的深入研究,将有助于完善流动稳定性与湍流理论,为层流向湍流转捩过程的预测与控制提供合理的理论依据.     

前缘曲率对三维边界层内被激发出非定常横流模态的影响研究

三维边界层感受性问题是三维边界层层流向湍流转捩的初始阶段,是实现三维边界层转捩预测与控制的关键环节.在高湍流度的环境下,非定常横流模态的失稳是导致三维边界层流动转捩的主要原因;但是,前缘曲率对三维边界层感受性机制作用的研究也是十分重要的课题之一.因此,本文采用直接数值模拟方法研究在自由来流湍流作用下具有不同椭圆形前缘三维（后掠翼平板）边界层内被激发出非定常横流模态的感受性机制;揭示不同椭圆形前缘曲率对三维边界层内被激发出非定常横流模态的扰动波波包传播速度、传播方向、分布规律、感受性系数以及分别提取获得一组扰动波的幅值、色散关系和增长率等关键因素的影响;建立在不同椭圆形前缘曲率情况下,三维边界层内被激发出非定常横流模态的感受性问题与自由来流湍流的强度和运动方向变化之间的内在联系;详细分析了不同强度各向异性的自由来流湍流在激发三维边界层感受性机制的物理过程中起着何种作用等.通过上述研究将有益于拓展和完善流动稳定性理论,为三维边界层内层流向湍流转捩的预测与控制提供依据.     

高精度非定常激波装配法

为正确模拟高超声速绕流中,来流小扰动与弓形激波之间的干扰对流动特征的影响,将弓形激波作为动边界,利用非定常特征关系处理激波处的边界条件.应用五阶精度迎风紧致格式和六阶精度的对称格式与三阶精度的R-K方法相结合,建立高精度非定常激波装配方法.采用该方法数值模拟钝锥高超声速定常流场和二维抛物外形高超声速边界层流动的感受性问题,数值模拟来流小扰动与弓形激波干扰激波后非定常扰动流场,研究扰动波进入边界层产生边界层不稳定波的特征.     

壁面局部吹吸边界层感受性的数值研究

目前理论、实验以及数值模拟主要研究自由来流中的小扰动与壁面局部粗糙相互作用激发边界层感受性问题. 但是, 针对自由来流湍流与壁面局部吹吸相互作用诱导边界层感受性的相关报道甚少. 本文采用直接数值模拟和快速傅里叶变换的方法, 数值研究了二维平板壁面具有局部吹吸的边界层感受性问题. 结果发现, 在二维边界层内能找到一组被激发产生的Tollmien-Schlichting(T-S)波波包的包络序列以及从波包中能够分离出一组稳定的、中性的和不稳定的T-S波, 证明了二维边界层内感受性现象的存在性. 经数值计算获得了T-S波波包传播的群速度; 并建立了自由来流湍流强度、壁面局部吹吸强度和长度与二维边界层感受性之间的关系, 获得了与Dietz感受性实验相类似的结论. 另外, 还发现在自由来流湍流与壁面局部吹、吸相互作用下能诱导二维边界层内产生相位相反的T-S波. 依据这一理论机理来优化设计局部吹吸装置, 不但能促使层流向湍流转捩的提前, 也可以延迟转捩过程的发生, 达到控制湍流运动的目的.     

高超声速边界层中由粗糙元引起强制转捩的机理

由大粗糙元引起的高超声速边界层强制转捩在航天技术中有实际应用, 因而近年来受到人们的广泛关注.虽然目前导致该转捩过程的内在机理尚不完全清楚, 但有一点是明确的, 即粗糙元的尾迹流场中存在强对流不稳定性.文章的出发点是研究这种对流不稳定模态是如何触发转捩的.首先通过CFD方法, 计算出高超声速边界层中粗糙元的尾迹流场, 并对其进行二维稳定性分析.结果发现, 在传统不稳定Tollmien-Schlichting(T-S)模态出现的临界Reynolds数之前, 存在高增长率的无黏不稳定模态, 表现为对称的余弦模态和反对称的正弦模态.然后对该不稳定模态在粗糙元尾迹流中的演化进行了模拟, 验证了二维稳定性分析的结果, 并考察了非平行性效应的影响.最后通过直接数值模拟, 研究由这些不稳定模态触发转捩的全过程.结果表明, 对流不稳定模态确实是导致边界层转捩的关键机制.该转捩过程的特点是, 局部湍斑首先在不稳定模态特征函数的峰值附近出现, 然后向全流场扩散.就文章研究的工况而言, 余弦和正弦模态的相互作用对转捩的影响并不明显, 且后者在转捩过程中起主导作用.      

高超声速椭圆锥边界层横流转捩特性大涡模拟

横流效应显著影响高超声速飞行器的三维边界层转捩过程, 深化对该流动机制的认识有助于提升和改善飞行器气动性能及热力学环境. 针对HIFiRE5椭圆锥绕流问题, 采用大涡模拟方法计算分析了超声速边界层横流转捩特性, 并揭示其中的流动机理. 参考HIFiRE5风洞模型试验条件, 数值模拟中椭圆锥来流入口处施加人工速度扰动以激发边界层内不稳定扰动波, 进而预测了高超声速边界层流动横流失稳、转捩过程等基本流动特征, 并基于转捩热流分布形态对比, 获得了与试验数据基本吻合的计算结果. 研究发现, 椭圆锥中心线流动汇聚形成的流向涡结构非常容易失稳, 另外在中心线及侧缘之间的中部区域存在较强的横流不稳定性, 两种机制共同作用影响边界层转捩过程. 此外, 分析了来流扰动幅值对边界层横流失稳转捩的影响, 并发现静来流条件下, 横流区域出现两组独立的定常横流涡结构, 而强噪声来流条件下, 中心线主涡和中部横流涡均发生失稳转捩, 且在椭圆锥表面形成多峰状的转捩阵面. 最后, 深入分析流场的压力脉动动力学特性, 揭示了三维边界层发生失稳转捩的非线性演化机制.      

多孔表面推迟高超声速边界层转捩的机理

利用线性稳定性理论分析（LST）结合直接数值模拟（DNS）研究高超声速多孔表面边界层流动的失稳特征,分析多孔表面推迟高超声速边界层转捩的机理.在Ma=6,Re=2.0×10⁴（参考长度为入口处边界层位移厚度）条件下获得平板边界层及不同孔隙排列情形下平板边界层的典型流动特征,并采用LST方法分析光滑平板及多孔平板扰动的增长率及累计放大率.研究表明三维顺排及错排多孔表面都可以抑制第二模扰动的发展,推迟高超声速边界层转捩,但顺排多孔表面推迟高超声速边界层转捩能力更强.     

前缘曲率变化对平板边界层感受性问题的影响

边界层感受性问题是层流向湍流转捩的初始阶段,是实现边界层转捩预测和控制的关键环节.目前已有的研究成果显示,在声波扰动或涡波扰动作用下前缘曲率变化对边界层感受性机制有着显著的影响.本文采用直接数值模拟方法,研究了在自由来流湍流作用下具有不同椭圆形前缘平板边界层感受性问题,揭示椭圆形前缘曲率变化对平板边界层内被激发出Tollmien-Schlichting (T-S)波波包的感受性机制以及波包向前传播群速度的影响;通过快速傅里叶分析方法从波包中提取获得了不同频率的T-S波,详细分析了前缘曲率变化对不同频率的T-S波的幅值、色散关系、增长率、相速度以及形状函数的作用;确定了前缘曲率在平板边界层内激发T-S波的感受性过程中所占据的地位.通过上述研究能够进一步认识和理解边界层感受性机制,从而丰富和完善了流动稳定性理论.     

Receptivity to free-stream disturbance waves for hypersonic flow over a blunt cone

A high-order shock-fitting finite difference scheme is studied and used to do direction numerical simulation (DNS) of hypersonic unsteady flow over a blunt cone with fast acoustic waves in the free stream, and the receptivity problem in the blunt cone hypersonic boundary layers is studied. The results show that the acoustic waves are the strongest disturbance in the blunt cone hypersonic boundary layers. The wave modes of disturbance in the blunt cone boundary layers are first, second, and third modes which are generated and propagated downstream along the wall. The results also show that as the frequency decreases, the amplitudes of wave modes of disturbance increase, but there is a critical value. When frequency is over the critial value, the amplitudes decrease. Because of the discontinuity of curvature along the blunt cone body, the maximum amplitudes as a function of frequencies are not monotone. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10632050 and 10502052)     

基于Ludwieg管的高超声速边界层转捩实验

高超声速边界层层/湍流转捩是高超声速飞行器气动力和气动热设计中的难点和热点问题.为了降低开展高超声速边界层不稳定性与转捩实验研究的门槛,研究基于Ludwieg管原理设计并建造了一座Mach 6高超声速管风洞,重点对Ludwieg管风洞的启动和运行过程开展了数值模拟,分析了储气段弯管布局对试验段流场的影响;之后,对该高超声速风洞的自由来流品质进行了静态和动态的标定,验证了风洞的设计Mach数,并给出了流场的动态扰动特征;最后,基于7°半张角尖锥标模开展了高超声速边界层转捩实验,通过表面齐平式安装的高频PCB传感器获得边界层不稳定波,分析了高超声速边界层不稳定波的演化特征.以上工作表明,Ludwieg管相对常规高超声速风洞具有建设和运行成本低、运行效率高、流场品质好等优点,适合开展高超声速边界层转捩等基础实验研究.      

Stability characteristic of hypersonic flow over a blunt wedge under freestream pulse wave

To investigate the stability characteristic of hypersonic flow under the action of a freestream pulse wave, a high-order finite difference method was employed to do direction numerical simulation (DNS) of hypersonic unsteady flow over an 8° half-wedge-angle blunt wedge with freestream slow acoustic wave. The evolution of disturbance wave modes in the boundary layer under a pulse wave and a continuous wave are compared, and the wall temperature effect on the hypersonic boundary layer stability for a pulse wave disturbance is discussed. Results show that, both for a pulse wave and a continuous wave in freestream, the disturbance waves inside the nose boundary layer are mainly a fundamental mode; the Fourier amplitude of pressure disturbance mode in the boundary layer for a pulse wave is far less than that for a continuous wave, and the band frequency of the former is wider than that of the latter. All disturbance modes decay rapidly along the streamwise in the nose boundary layer. In the non-nose boundary layer, the dominant mode is transferred from fundamental mode into second harmonic. The transformation of dominant mode for a pulse wave appears much earlier than that for a continuous wave. Different frequency disturbance modes present different changes along streamline in the boundary layer, and the frequency band narrows around the second harmonic mode along the streamwise. Keen competition and the transformation of energy exist among different modes in the boundary layer. Wall temperature modifies the stability characteristic of the hypersonic boundary layer, which presents little effect on the development of fundamental modes and cooling wall could accelerates the growth of the high frequency mode as well as the dominant mode transformation.     

Direct simulations of trailing-edge noise generation from two-dimensional airfoils at low Reynolds numbers

The aeroacoustic sound generated from the flow around two NACA four-digit airfoils is investigated numerically, at relatively low Reynolds numbers that do not prompt boundary-layer transition. By using high-order finite-difference schemes to discretize compressible Navier–Stokes equations, the sound scattered on airfoil surface is directly resolved as an unsteady pressure fluctuation. As the wavelength of an emitted noise is shortened compared to the airfoil chord, the diffraction effect on non-compact chord length appears more noticeable, developing multiple lobes in directivity. The instability mechanism that produces sound sources, or unsteady vortical motions, is quantitatively examined, also by using a linear stability theory. While the evidence of boundary-layer instability waves is captured in the present result, the most amplified frequency in the boundary shear layer does not necessarily agree with the primary frequency of a trailing-edge noise, when wake instability is dominant in laminar flow. This contradicts the observation of other trailing-edge noise studies at higher Reynolds numbers. However, via acoustic disturbances, the boundary-layer instability may become more significant, through the resonance with the wake instability, excited by increasing a base-flow Mach number. Evidence suggests that this would correspond to the onset of an acoustic feedback loop. The wake-flow frequencies derived by an absolute-instability analysis are compared with the frequencies realized in flow simulations, to clarify the effect of an acoustic feedback mechanism, at a low Reynolds number.     

高精度格式WCNS-E-5计算物面热流

采用加权紧致非线性格式WCNS-E-5,四阶精度的二阶导数差分近似以及四阶精度的边界格式构造了高精度算法,对高超声速粘性流动的物面热流进行数值研究.首先考察了壁面网格雷诺数对驻点热流的影响,然后开展了边界格式对热流计算结果影响的研究,最后对大攻角钝锥绕流进行了数值模拟.研究结果表明:WCNS-E-5能降低边界层内网格分辨率,全场高精度的WCNS-E-5计算得到的流场图像清晰、真实、分辨率高,热流值准确、可靠.     

超声速湍流边界层湍流统计与湍流结构分析

可压缩边界层转捩问题与湍流问题一直是制约高超声速飞行器发展的关键基础问题,也是近年来流体力学领域研究的热点问题.采用直接数值模拟方法,获得了空间发展的Ma=2.25超声速湍流边界层流场,通过对湍流边界层的发展状态进行评估,得出有效的Reynolds数Re_θ范围约为2 600~4 600.对壁面摩阻系数开展了分解,获得了各分量的占比,对充分发展的湍流边界层进行1阶和高阶统计分析,包括形状因子、壁面律、平坦因子与偏斜因子、Reynolds应力、脉动涡量等,得到了剪切Reynolds数与动量Reynolds数之间的关系式,分析了湍流边界层壁面律的分层特性,发现湍流的间歇特性主要分布在y+ < 30的区域,并且法向速度脉动的间歇性远高于另外两者,3个方向上的Reynolds应力分布和涡量分布都存在较大差异.通过两点相关性分析和Lagrange涡结构,对近壁区湍流结构进行了分析,包括流向平面和展向平面,发现流向脉动速度的相关区域流向尺度较长,呈现狭长的特性,并且流向平面的相关系数与壁面存在一定的夹角;而在边界层外层,流向速度脉动相关区域的流向尺度变短而展向尺度增加,呈现宽胖型.研究结果进一步加深了对超声速湍流边界层的认识,为下一步湍流边界层的流动控制奠定了基础.      

An improved high-order scheme for DNS of low Mach number turbulent reacting flows based on stiff chemistry solver

We present an improved numerical scheme for numerical simulations of low Mach number turbulent reacting flows with detailed chemistry and transport. The method is based on a semi-implicit operator-splitting scheme with a stiff solver for integration of the chemical kinetic rates, developed by Knio et al. [O.M. Knio, H.N. Najm, P.S. Wyckoff, A semi-implicit numerical scheme for reacting flow II. Stiff, operator-split formulation, Journal of Computational Physics 154 (2) (1999) 428–467]. Using the material derivative form of continuity equation, we enhance the scheme to allow for large density ratio in the flow field. The scheme is developed for direct numerical simulation of turbulent reacting flow by employing high-order discretization for the spatial terms. The accuracy of the scheme in space and time is verified by examining the grid/time-step dependency on one-dimensional benchmark cases: a freely propagating premixed flame in an open environment and in an enclosure related to spark-ignition engines. The scheme is then examined in simulations of a two-dimensional laminar flame/vortex-pair interaction. Furthermore, we apply the scheme to direct numerical simulation of a homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) process in an enclosure studied previously in the literature. Satisfactory agreement is found in terms of the overall ignition behavior, local reaction zone structures and statistical quantities. Finally, the scheme is used to study the development of intrinsic flame instabilities in a lean H₂/air premixed flame, where it is shown that the spatial and temporary accuracies of numerical schemes can have great impact on the prediction of the sensitive nonlinear evolution process of flame instability.     

迎风紧致格式求解Hamilton-Jacobi方程

基于Hamilton-Jacobi(H-J)方程和双曲型守恒律之间的关系,将三阶和五阶迎风紧致格式推广应用于求解H-J方程,建立了高精度的H-J方程求解方法.给出了一维和二维典型数值算例的计算结果,其中包括一个平面激波作用下的Richtmyer Meshkov界面不稳定性问题.数值试验表明,在解的光滑区域该方法具有高精度,而在导数不连续的不光滑区域也获得了比较好的分辨效果.相比于同阶精度的WENO格式,本方法具有更小的数值耗散,从而有利于多尺度复杂流动的模拟中H-J方程的求解.     

DGM-FD: A finite difference scheme based on the discontinuous Galerkin method applied to wave propagation

In this paper we formulate a numerical method that is high order with strong accuracy for numerical wave numbers, and is adaptive to non-uniform grids. Such a method is developed based on the discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM) applied to the hyperbolic equation, resulting in finite difference type schemes applicable to non-uniform grids. The schemes will be referred to as DGM-FD schemes. These schemes inherit naturally some features of the DGM, such as high-order approximations, applicability to non-uniform grids and super-accuracy for wave propagations. Stability of the schemes with boundary closures is investigated and validated. Proposed scheme is demonstrated by numerical examples including the linearized acoustic waves and solutions of non-linear Burger’s equation and the flat-plate boundary layer problem. For non-linear equations, proposed flux finite difference formula requires no explicit upwind and downwind split of the flux. This is in contrast to existing upwind finite difference schemes in the literature.