湍流边界层拟序结构的大涡模拟研究

采用动力亚格子模型,利用大涡模拟方法模拟了雷诺数为13000的充分发展槽道湍流流动。从瞬时速度和脉动 速度场、脉动速度相关、均方根脉动涡量分布、以及瞬时涡量场等多个方面,对湍流边界层流动的拟序结构进行了分析, 包括近壁区小尺度湍流结构和瞬态过程,如条纹结构、喷射和扫掠过程、以及近壁旋涡结构等。     

不同亚格子模式在后台阶湍流流动大涡模拟中的应用

本文用大涡模拟方法研究了湍流后台阶流场中的大涡演变过程,并在此基础上研究了目前大涡模拟中比较常用的六种亚格子模式。在相同的流动几何参数以及计算条件下,给出了不同亚格子模式下湍流流动瞬时压力场以及流场中瞬时粘性大小的分布,尤其给出了流场瞬时演变的大尺度涡结构。将六种亚格子模式从回流区长度、计算时间、计算结果的准确性和流场稳定性等不同角度进行了比较。为选取合适的亚格子模式深入研究湍流耗散机理奠定了基础。     

混合层流动的格子涡方法数值模拟

采用格子涡方法对二维平板混合层流动进行了数值模拟,重点考察了格子涡方法定量模拟混合层流动流场下游不同流向位置各湍流统计平均量的能力。模拟结果表明:除横向脉动速度均方根比实验值大外,混合层流动在下游不同流向位置的流向平均速度,流向脉动速度均方根和雷诺应力的模拟结果都与实验结果定量符合得很好。此外,模拟结果还很好地反应出混合层流动的自相似性质。从而表明,格子涡方法具有对空间发展混合层流动进行较精确的定量模拟的能力。     

新型大涡数值模拟亚格子模型及应用

基于湍流大小尺度间动量输运的结构函数方程，提出了一种新的湍流大涡模型(LES)亚格子涡粘模式．新亚格子涡粘系数正比于纵向速度增量的扭率，它表征大小尺度湍流间的能量输运和耗散之比．新模式通过各向同性湍流直接数值模拟数据库的检验，并用于槽道湍流的大涡模拟计算，将所得结果与DNS结果进行了比较．     

提升管内稠密气粒两相流动大涡模拟

本文采用双流体模型,引入颗粒动力学理论,对提升管内的稠密气粒两相流动进行了大涡模拟。采用改进的分步投影法对滤波后的方程进行显式求解,小尺度量采用Smagorinsky亚格子模式模拟。模拟结果给出的颗粒相速度分布、浓度分布与实验值基本吻合,气固两相存在速度滑移。模拟结果合理预报出了提升管内的环-核流动结构。     

尾流的双尺度简化模型及其大涡模拟建模

叶轮机中存在着复杂的湍流流动结构,如何准确地模拟湍流流动一直是工程界关注的核心问题。由于湍流在大部分区域都处于强非均衡态,根据均衡能量传输假设建立起来的RANS湍流模型和大涡模拟亚格子模型都不再适用。非均衡湍流的一个经典的模型流动是尾流,但通常意义上的尾流往往是无数不同尺度相互作用的结果,难以进行简化分析。本文构造了一个极度简化的双尺度尾流模型进行了直接数值模拟(DNS),结果显示在转捩前期就存在反向的非均衡能量传输。分别采用各种传统的RANS湍流模型和大涡模拟亚格子模型进行了数值模拟,发现各种模型都无法准确预测尾流转捩。在考虑非均衡能量传输机制后,通过流向速度梯度扭率构造的理性亚格子应力模型可以使大涡模拟模拟的转捩位置相对于标准Smagorinsky模型有所改善;不采用涡粘假设的改进速度增量(IVI)模型可以得到更加接近DNS的结果。这些结果为湍流模型进一步的改进提供了思路。     

壁面在展向作周期运动的槽道湍流的大涡模拟

分别采用3种亚格子模式：传统的Smagorinsky模式、动力Smagorinsky模式和Cui（2004）基于Kolmogorov方程所提出的新模式，对壁面在展向作周期运动的槽道湍流进行了大涡模拟，以考察这3种模式对平均运动为三维、非定常的湍流流动的模拟能力。通过对湍流基本统计量的分析，发现动力模式和新模式都可以较好地预测这种三维非定常的湍流流动；对相位平均的湍流统计量，动力模式的结果略优于新模式；传统的Smagorinsky模式对这种流动的预测结果是最差的。     

一种改进后的亚格子特征尺度表达式

针对大涡模拟涡粘性亚格子模式中使用网格尺度为特征尺度存在的不足,提出一种改进的亚格子特征尺度表达式,利用结合Sagaut混合尺度模式获得的改进模式与Smagorinsky模式、Germano模式和Sagaut模式等进行对比研究.时间发展混合层和中性大气边界层的大涡模拟结果表明,改进的有效亚格子特征尺度能合理反映亚格子脉动的时空分布特性,同时扩展了适用范围.在对耗散程度、流动演化过程、可解湍流强度和可解雷诺应力等方面的模拟,改进模式优于基准模式,表明亚格子脉动有效特征尺度在大涡模拟中具有一定的理论基础和广泛的应用价值.     

不同亚格子模型在亚声速槽道流大涡模拟中的应用对比

湍流边界层流动是一种广泛存在于飞行器内部和外部的流动现象，是基础理论和模型验证的重要研究对象.能够捕捉大部分流动细节且计算量适中的大涡模拟（large-eddy simulation，LES）方法在湍流数值模拟中得到了越来越广泛的应用.文章基于格心有限差分方法，使用4阶紧致中心格式离散N-S方程无黏项，分别应用5种不同的亚格子（subgrid-scale，SGS）模型，即隐式，SM（Smagorinsky model），DSM（dynamic Smagorinsky model），WALE（wall-adapting local eddy-viscosity model）和CSM（coherent structures model），对Re = 3 000，Ma = 0.5的等温壁面槽道流动进行了大涡模拟研究.与实验值和直接数值模拟（direct numerical simulation，DNS）结果对比后发现，流场平均温度、平均密度等热力学量以及平均流向速度对亚格子模型不敏感，不适宜作为判断模型优劣的判据.亚格子模型在壁面附近的耗散越大，壁面摩擦速度以及阻力系数就越小.对于与速度相关的脉动量来说，不同模型得到的结果在壁面和脉动峰值附近误差比较大，中心线附近较小；显式模型结果在流向速度峰值处均高于参考值，而在展向和壁面法向速度脉动峰值处则均偏低.考虑显式的4种模型在壁面附近的涡黏系数分布，DSM和CSM曲线满足涡黏系数与无量纲壁面距离3次方成正比的分布规律，SM曲线斜率偏小而WALE曲线斜率偏大.      

基于LBM方法的风力发电机尾流结构仿真

针对传统CFD数值计算方法难以实现风力机动态旋转及其旋转状态下的流固耦合计算,本文结合格子玻尔兹曼(LBM)方法易于处理动态复杂边界的特点及大涡模拟(LES)方法在非稳态涡流结构捕捉上的优势,采用LBM-LES联合方法进行三维风力发电机整机气动性能及尾流结构仿真研究,同时采用尺度自适应方法对尾涡结构进行跟踪和精细化计算。针对NREL PhaseⅥ型试验机进行模拟,得到了与实验结果吻合的流动形态及尾流结构演变规律,分析了尾流区速度演变规律并对比了不同亚格子湍流模型对计算结果的影响.     

Curvature Effect on Compressible Turbulent Flow over a Wavy Wall

A fully developed compressible turbulent flow in a channel with a lower wavy wall and a upper plane wall is studied using large eddy simulation. We mainly attempt to deal with the curvature effect on compressible turbulent flow over the wavy wall. Some typical quantities including the mean turbulence statistics, dilatation and baroclinic terms in the enstrophy equation, turbulent kinetic energy budgets and the near-wall turbulent structures are analysed. The results obtained in this study provide physical insight into the understanding of the effects of curvature and compressibility on wall-bounded compressible turbulent flow.     

Large-eddy simulations of temporally accelerating turbulent channel flow

The unsteady turbulent channel flow subject to the temporal acceleration is considered in this study. Large-eddy simulations were performed to study the response of the turbulent flow to the temporal acceleration. The simulations were started with the fully developed turbulent channel flow at an initial Reynolds number of Re₀ = 3500 (based on the channel half-height and the bulk-mean velocity), and then a constant temporal acceleration was applied. During the acceleration, the Reynolds number of the channel flow increased linearly from the initial Reynolds number to the final Reynolds number of Re₁ = 22,600. The effect of grid resolution, domain size, time step size on the simulation results was assessed in a preliminary study using simulations of the accelerating turbulent flow as well as simulations of the steady turbulent channel flow at various Reynolds numbers. Simulation parameters were carefully chosen from the preliminary study to ascertain the accuracy of the simulation. From the accelerating turbulent flow simulations, the delays in the response of various flow properties to the temporal acceleration were measured. The distinctive features of the delays responsible for turbulence production, energy redistribution, and radial propagation were identified. Detailed turbulence statistics including the wall shear stress response during the acceleration were examined. The results reveal the changes in the near-wall structures during the acceleration. A self-sustaining mechanism of turbulence is proposed to explain the response of the turbulent flow to the temporal acceleration. Although the overall flow characteristics are similar between the channel and pipe flows, some differences were observed between the two flows.     

Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Channel Flow with 3D Roughness Using a Roughness Element Model

Large eddy simulation of turbulent channel flow with dense and small 3D roughness elements is carried out using a roughness element model Profiles of mean Reynolds stress, mean velocity and rms velocity as well as turbulent structures near the wall are obtained. The shear stress in the rough wall is larger than that in the smooth wall side and the rough wall has a larger influence on the channel flow. Profiles of mean streamwise velocity near the wall have logarithmic velocity distributions for both smooth and roughness walls, while there is a velocity decrease for the rough wall due to larger fractional drag. All the three components of rms velocities in the rough wall region are larger than that in the smooth wall region, and the roughness elements on the wall increase turbulent intensity in all directions. The s~reak spacing and average diameter of near wall quasi-s~reamwise vortices increase with the presence of roughness elements on the wall and it is shown that the rough wall induces complex and strong streamwise vortices. Results of dense and small 3D roughness elements in both turbulent statistics and structure, obtained with a relatively simple method, are found to be comparable to related experiments.     

An improved dynamic subgrid-scale model and its application to large eddy simulation of rotating channel flows

Rotating turbulence occurs extensively in nature and engineering circumstances. Meanwhile, understanding physical mechanisms of the rotating turbulence is important to the fundamental research of turbulence. The turbulent flow in rotating frames undergoes two kinds of Coriolis force effects. First, a secondary flow is induced in the case that there is a mean vorticity component perpendicular to the rotating axis. Second, there are augmenting or suppressing effects on the turbulence if there i…     

An algebraic variational multiscale–multigrid method for large-eddy simulation of turbulent variable-density flow at low Mach number

An algebraic variational multiscale–multigrid method is proposed for large-eddy simulation of turbulent variable-density flow at low Mach number. Scale-separating operators generated by level-transfer operators from plain aggregation algebraic multigrid methods enable the application of modeling terms to selected scale groups (here, the smaller of the resolved scales) in a purely algebraic way. Thus, for scale separation, no additional discretization besides the basic one is required, in contrast to earlier approaches based on geometric multigrid methods. The proposed method is thoroughly validated via three numerical test cases of increasing complexity: a Rayleigh–Taylor instability, turbulent channel flow with a heated and a cooled wall, and turbulent flow past a backward-facing step with heating. Results obtained with the algebraic variational multiscale–multigrid method are compared to results obtained with residual-based variational multiscale methods as well as reference results from direct numerical simulation, experiments and LES published elsewhere. Particularly, mean and various second-order velocity and temperature results obtained for turbulent channel flow with a heated and a cooled wall indicate the higher prediction quality achievable when adding a small-scale subgrid-viscosity term within the algebraic multigrid framework instead of residual-based terms accounting for the subgrid-scale part of the non-linear convective term.     

确定分布的展向Lorentz力调制下的槽道湍流涡结构

采用直接数值模拟方法,对槽道湍流中确定分布的Lorentz力的流动控制与减阻问题进行研究.讨论了Lorentz力作用于槽道湍流后,流场的特性和涡结构的特性,并对此类Lorentz力对槽道湍流的控制与减阻机理进行了讨论.研究发现:1)Lorentz力诱导的层流流场壁面附近存在梯度极大的展向速度剪切层,该剪切层容易形成流向涡结构;2)在给定合适参数的确定分布的Lorentz力作用下,湍流流场仅剩周期分布的准流向涡;3)与未控制流场相比,控制后的流场中,准流向涡的抬升高度大大降低,从而减小猝发强度,使壁面阻力下降.     

Large eddy simulation of compressible turbulent channel flow with spanwise wall oscillation

The influences of the modification of turbulent coherent structures on temperature field and heat transfer in turbulent channel flow are studied using large eddy simulation (LES) of compressible turbulent channel flows with spanwise wall oscillation (SWO). The reliability of the LES on such problems is proved by the comparisons of the drag reduction data with those of other researches. The high consistency of coherent velocity structures and temperature structures is found based on the analyses of the turbulent flow field. When the coherent velocity structures are suppressed, the transportations of momentum and heat are reduced simultaneously, demonstrating the same trend. This shows that the turbulent coherent structures have the same effects on the transportations of momentum and heat. The averaged wall heat flux can be reduced with appropriate oscillating parameters. Supported by the Key Subjects of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10732090), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50476004), and the 111 Project (Grant No. B08009)     

A Web services accessible database of turbulent channel flow and its use for testing a new integral wall model for LES

The output from a direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent channel flow at Re_τ ≈ 1000 is used to construct a publicly and Web services accessible, spatio-temporal database for this flow. The simulated channel has a size of 8πh × 2h × 3πh, where h is the channel half-height. Data are stored at 2048 × 512 × 1536 spatial grid points for a total of 4000 time samples every 5 time steps of the DNS. These cover an entire channel flow-through time, i.e. the time it takes to traverse the entire channel length 8πh at the mean velocity of the bulk flow. Users can access the database through an interface that is based on the Web services model and perform numerical experiments on the slightly over 100 terabytes (TB) DNS data on their remote platforms, such as laptops or local desktops. Additional technical details about the pressure calculation, database interpolation, and differentiation tools are provided in several appendices. As a sample application of the channel flow database, we use it to conduct an a-priori test of a recently introduced integral wall model for large eddy simulation of wall-bounded turbulent flow. The results are compared with those of the equilibrium wall model, showing the strengths of the integral wall model as compared to the equilibrium model.     

Turbulent Boundary Layer Control via a Streamwise Travelling Wave Induced by an External Force

Turbulent boundary layer control via a streamwise travelling wave is investigated based on direct numerical simulation of an incompressible turbulent channel flow. The streamwise travelling wave is induced on one side wall of the channel by a spanwise external force, e.g., Lorenz force, which is con~ned in the viscous sublayer. As the control strategy used in this study has never been examined, we pay our attention to its efficiency of drag control. It is revealed that the propagating direction of the travelling wave, i.e., the downstream or upstream propagating direction with respect to the streamwise flow, has an important role on the drag control, leading to a significant drag reduction or enhancement for the parameters considered. The coherent structures of turbulent boundary layer are altered and the underlying mechanisms are analysed. The results obtained provide physical insight into the understanding of turbulent boundary layer control.     

带引流条导电矩形管磁流体湍流大涡数值模拟

为研究引流条对磁流体湍流的影响，采用自主开发的低磁雷诺数流固耦合磁流体相干结构模型大涡模拟求解器，对均匀磁场作用下平行层内带引流条导电矩形管和标准导电矩形管中液态金属湍流进行了数值模拟研究。结果表明，外加垂直流动方向的均匀磁场与流动的导电流体相互作用产生与流动方向相反的洛伦兹力，能够抑制磁流体的湍流脉动，这种抑制作用随着哈特曼数增大而增强。在弱导电率条件下，当Re=16350、Ha=212 时，两种管道中的流动均转换为层流流动状态。管道内壁面摩擦系数随着哈特曼数的增大而增大。引流条能在其近壁局部区域增强横向速度，有效激发湍流，但在弱壁面导电率条件下，带引流条导电矩形管壁面摩擦系数较标准矩形管大。