二维槽道湍流拟序结构的大涡模拟

本文采用大涡模拟的方法,对二维槽道湍流流动进行了数值模拟。采用Chorin的分步投影法求解大尺度涡运动的Navier-Stokes方程,小尺度涡采用三种亚格子（SGS）模式分别模拟,给出了不同亚格子涡粘性模式下的模拟结果。对固壁面采用了壁函数。模拟结果再现了二维槽道流动拟序结构的发展演变过程。通过对不同入口速度下的瞬态流场的比较,揭示了入口速度分布对流场的影响。     

射流温度场与拟序结构间相互作用的大涡模拟

本文分别对常温空气和高温空气的平面自由射流进行了大涡模拟,采用分步投影法求解动量方程,亚格子项采用标准Ｓｍａｇｏｒｉｎｓｋｙ亚格子模式模拟,并同时求解了标志物输运方程以实现数值流场显示。模拟结果给出了湍流的瞬态发展过程以及流动中拟序结构的发展演变过程,通过对常温射流和高温射流瞬态流场的比较揭示了射流中温度场与拟序结构间相互作用的细节过程。     

低阶格式在大涡模拟计算中的适用性

采用三维Taylor-Green涡作为研究对象,利用工程中常用的低阶数值格式,研究格式本身的数值误差对大涡模拟计算的影响.结果表明:三种数值格式的数值耗散行为都与亚格子模型行为类似,即在小雷诺数下,流场比较光滑时,耗散很小,当雷诺数增加,流动转捩为湍流,流场梯度增大,耗散显著增大.对于MUSCL格式和二阶有界中心格式,在高雷诺数下,亚格子尺度模型没有明显改善计算结果,但也没有使计算结果恶化.中心格式相比其它两种格式,数值耗散最小,但是在高雷诺数湍流情况下,中心格式的数值耗散仍然主导了能量的耗散,再添加亚格子模型,计算结果反而变得稍差.对于工程中的低阶格式而言,采用中心格式计算大涡模拟是比较好的选择,而且在计算不存在稳定性问题时,采用不添加亚格子模型的隐式大涡模拟效果更好.     

空冷岛扁平管外翅片空间的大涡模拟研究

本文基于计算流体力学软件FLUENT采用大涡模拟方法(LES)及Smagorinsky-lilly亚格子模型,对空冷岛扁平管外翅片空间的流动与换热特性进行了三维瞬态湍流数值模拟。计算结果表明大涡模拟方法能较好地模拟空冷岛扁平管外翅片空间的瞬态流动特性,能够捕获更多的流场细节信息。可得出流场中温度、压力、涡量等各参数的瞬态变化特性以及翅片空间尾流区瞬态三维涡的发展演化过程,更好地预测多尺度湍流。为进一步揭示扁平管温度场和流场的协同关系以及大型空冷系统多尺度输运规律和非线性尺度效应机理打下基础。     

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。     

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.     

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.     

不同亚格子模型的对比分析及其运用

本文基于大涡模拟方法,对比讨论了四种不同亚格子模型的计算原理和仿真特性,并对等离子体激励下的凸包流场进行了研究,结果表明:WALE模型和KET模型的仿真结果比较准确;Smagorinsky-Lilly模型耗散偏大且模型系数不具普适性,仿真准确性较差;WMLES模型存在严重的过度耗散,各流动参数的仿真结果误差很大,无法准确捕捉流动转捩的发生;等离子体激励通过向附面层流体注入能量产生等效的壁面射流,可以显著延缓凸包流动分离并促进流动再附、抑制涡的发生,从而起到降低耗散,湍流减阻的作用。     

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．     

三维气固两相混合层湍流拟序结构的直接数值模拟

本文对三维气固两相混合层湍流拟序结构进行了直接数值模拟。气相流场应用拟谱方法对Ｎ－Ｓ方程组进行直接求解,通过模拟时间模式的混合层流动,分析流场失稳后涡的卷起、配对、合并及撕裂过程,研究三维混合层湍流拟序结构的演变特征;计算颗粒场时,采用Ｌａｇｒａｎｇｉａｎ方法,针对颗粒不同的Ｓｔｏｋｅｓ数,模拟了颗粒场的瞬态分布,并分析流场三维大涡结构对颗粒分布的影响。     

A priori evaluation of large eddy simulation subgrid-scale scalar flux models in isotropic passive-scalar and anisotropic buoyancy-driven homogeneous turbulence

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of passive (non-buoyant) and active (buoyant) scalar homogeneous turbulence is carried out using a standard pseudo-spectral numerical method. The flow settings simulated include stationary forced and decaying passive-scalar turbulence, as well as decaying anisotropic active-scalar turbulence. The Schmidt number is unity in all cases. The results are compared with, and are found to be in very good agreement with, previous similar DNS studies. The well-validated DNS data are divided into 19 sets, and are employed to study different large eddy simulation (LES) subgrid-scale (SGS) models for the SGS scalar flux. The models examined include three eddy-viscosity-type models (Smagorinsky, Vreman and Sigma with a constant SGS Schmidt number), a Dynamic Structure model and two versions of the Gradient (Gradient and Modulated Gradient) model. The models are investigated with respect to their ability to predict the orientation, and the magnitude, of the SGS scalar flux. Eddy-viscosity models are found to predict the magnitude of the SGS scalar flux accurately, but are poor at predicting the orientation of the SGS scalar flux. The Dynamic Structure and Gradient models are better than eddy-viscosity models at predicting both the magnitude and direction. However, neither of them can be realised in an actual LES, without carrying additional transport equations. Based on these observations, four new models are proposed – combining directions from Dynamic Structure and Gradient models, and magnitudes from Smagorinsky and Vreman eddy-viscosity models. These models are expected to be better than eddy-viscosity and Modulated Gradient models, and this is confirmed by preliminary a posteriori tests.     

Large eddy simulation of turbulent premixed flames using level-set G-equation

Level-set G-equation and stationary flamelet chemistry are used in large eddy simulation of a propane/air premixed turbulent flame stabilized by a bluff body. The aim was to study the interaction between the flame front and turbulent eddies, and in particular to examine the effect of sub-grid scale (SGS) eddies on the wrinkling of the flame surface. The results indicated that the two types of turbulence eddies—the resolved large scale eddies and the unresolved SGS eddies—have different effects on the flame. The fluctuation of the flame surface, which is responsible for the broadening of the time averaged mean flame brush by turbulence, depends on the large resolved turbulence eddies. Time averaged mean flow velocity, temperature, and major species concentrations mainly depend on the large scale resolved eddies. The unresolved SGS eddies contribute to the wrinkling at the SGS level and play an important role in the enhancement of the propagation speed of the resolved flame front. In addition, the spatially filtered intermediate species, such as radicals, and the spatially filtered reaction rates strongly depend on the small SGS eddies. The asymptotic behavior of flame wrinkling by the SGS eddies, with respect to the decrease in filter size and grid size, is investigated further using a simplified level-set equation in a model shear flow. It is shown that to minimize the influence of the SGS eddies, fine grid and filter size may have to be used.     

A velocity-estimation subgrid model constrained by subgrid scale dissipation

Purely dissipative eddy-viscosity subgrid models have proven very successful in large-eddy simulations (LES) at moderate resolution. Simulations at coarse resolutions where the underlying assumption of small-scale universality is not valid, warrant more advanced models. However, non-eddy viscosity models are often unstable due to the lack of sufficient dissipation. This paper proposes a simple modeling approach which incorporates the dissipative nature of existing eddy viscosity models into more physically appealing non-eddy viscosity SGS models. The key idea is to impose the SGS dissipation of the eddy viscosity model as a constraint on the non-eddy viscosity model when determining the coefficients in the non-eddy viscosity model. We propose a new subgrid scale model (RSEM), which is based on estimation of the unresolved velocity field. RSEM is developed in physical space and does not require the use of finer grids to estimate the subgrid velocity field. The model coefficient is determined such that total SGS dissipation matches that from a target SGS model in the mean or least-squares sense. The dynamic Smagorinsky model is used to provide the target dissipation. Results are shown for LES of decaying isotropic turbulence and turbulent channel flow. For isotropic turbulence, RSEM displays some level of backward dissipation, while yielding as good results as the dynamic Smagorinsky model. For channel flow, the results from RSEM are better than those from the dynamic Smagorinsky model for both statistics and instantaneous flow structures.     

Assessment of localized artificial diffusivity scheme for large-eddy simulation of compressible turbulent flows

The localized artificial diffusivity method is investigated in the context of large-eddy simulation of compressible turbulent flows. The performance of different artificial bulk viscosity models are evaluated through detailed results from the evolution of decaying compressible isotropic turbulence with eddy shocklets and supersonic turbulent boundary layer. Effects of subgrid-scale (SGS) models and implicit time-integration scheme/time-step size are also investigated within the framework of the numerical scheme used. The use of a shock sensor along with artificial bulk viscosity significantly improves the scheme for simulating turbulent flows involving shocks while retaining the shock-capturing capability. The proposed combination of Ducros-type sensor with a negative dilatation sensor removes unnecessary bulk viscosity within expansion and weakly compressible turbulence regions without shocks and allows it to localize near the shocks. It also eliminates the need for a wall-damping function for the bulk viscosity while simulating wall-bounded turbulent flows. For the numerical schemes used, better results are obtained without adding an explicit SGS model than with SGS model at moderate Reynolds number. Inclusion of a SGS model in addition to the low-pass filtering and artificial bulk viscosity results in additional damping of the resolved turbulence. However, investigations at higher Reynolds numbers suggest the need for an explicit SGS model. The flow statistics obtained using the second-order implicit time-integration scheme with three sub-iterations closely agrees with the explicit scheme if the maximum Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy is kept near unity.     

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…     

Effective eddy viscosity in stratified turbulence

This paper investigates the effective eddy viscosity inferred from direct numerical simulations of decaying stratified and non-stratified turbulence. It is shown that stratification affects the horizontal eddy viscosity dramatically, by increasing non-local energy transfer between large and small horizontal scales. This non-local horizontal energy transfer is around 20% of the local horizontal energy transfer at the cutoff wavenumber k_c = 40. The non-local horizontal energy transfer occurs at large vertical wavenumbers, which may be larger than the buoyancy wavenumber k_b = N/u_rms, where N is the buoyancy frequency and u_rms is the root-mean-square velocity. By increasing the value of the test cutoff wavenumber k_c from large scales to the dissipation range, the non-local horizontal eddy viscosity decreases and the local eddy viscosity is dominant. Overall, the presence of stratification can significantly change the features of subgrid-scale (SGS) motions. Current SGS models should, therefore, be modified for use in large-eddy simulation of stratified turbulence.     

A new mixed subgrid-scale model for large eddy simulation of turbulent drag-reducing flows of viscoelastic fluids

A mixed subgrid-scale(SGS) model based on coherent structures and temporal approximate deconvolution(MCT) is proposed for turbulent drag-reducing flows of viscoelastic fluids. The main idea of the MCT SGS model is to perform spatial filtering for the momentum equation and temporal filtering for the conformation tensor transport equation of turbulent flow of viscoelastic fluid, respectively. The MCT model is suitable for large eddy simulation(LES) of turbulent dragreducing flows of viscoelastic fluids in engineering applications since the model parameters can be easily obtained. The LES of forced homogeneous isotropic turbulence(FHIT) with polymer additives and turbulent channel flow with surfactant additives based on MCT SGS model shows excellent agreements with direct numerical simulation(DNS) results. Compared with the LES results using the temporal approximate deconvolution model(TADM) for FHIT with polymer additives, this mixed SGS model MCT behaves better, regarding the enhancement of calculating parameters such as the Reynolds number.For scientific and engineering research, turbulent flows at high Reynolds numbers are expected, so the MCT model can be a more suitable model for the LES of turbulent drag-reducing flows of viscoelastic fluid with polymer or surfactant additives.     

激波加载初始非均匀气体流场界面不稳定性数值模拟

流体力学界面不稳定性及其后期的界面混合现象,是一种十分复杂的多尺度非线性物理问题,在惯性约束聚变、天体物理以及水中爆炸等领域有着广泛的应用前景,对该问题的研究不仅具有很高的学术价值,而且对促进相关领域的发展具有重要意义.中国工程物理研究院流体物理研究所基于Euler有限体积方法,发展了适用于可压缩多介质黏性流动具有多亚格子尺度模型的大涡模拟程序MVFT,并评估分析了不同亚格子尺度模型对界面不稳定性及界面混合的模拟能力;提出了流场非均匀性对R-M不稳定性影响的问题,并在激波驱动轻重气体双模扰动R-M界面不稳定性实验中成功应用并解读了新的实验现象和规律,在此基础上进而开展了反射激波作用下两种初始非均匀流场界面不稳定性引起的界面混合数值模拟研究,探讨了流场非均匀性对激波反射后强非线性阶段界面不稳定性发展、演化规律的影响,近期还对非均匀流场R-M不稳定性的演化规律、初始流场非均匀性和初始扰动效应及其影响的物理机制进行了分析和研究.      

Evaluating the modulated gradient model in large eddy simulation of channel flow with OpenFOAM

Recently, a new family of subgrid-scale (SGS) models, termed as gradient-based models, has been introduced to calculate the SGS stresses in large eddy simulation (LES). In the present work, the modulated gradient model (MGM) was implemented in the OpenFOAM package, and the pimpleFoam solver was improved to be adopted with non-eddy viscosity models. The MGM is a new, nonlinear model that uses the local equilibrium hypothesis to assess the SGS kinetic energy and the velocity gradient tensor to calculate the relative weight of the different components of the SGS stress tensor. To evaluate the accuracy of the MGM along with the modified pimpleFoam solver, a turbulent channel flow was simulated at the three different frictional Reynolds numbers of 180, 395 and 590. Furthermore, the results were compared with direct numerical simulation data, as well as the numerical results obtained by the established SGS models such as the dynamic Smagorinsky model (DSM). A suitable accuracy for the first- and second-order turbulence parameters was reported. Moreover, it was demonstrated that MGM is computationally efficient compared to the DSM in treating channel flow.     

Dynamic gradient models for the sub-grid scale stress tensor and scalar flux vector in large eddy simulation

A number of dynamic variants of the modulated gradient model (MGM) for the sub-grid scale (SGS) stress tensor and the SGS scalar flux vector are developed and evaluated a posteriori in large eddy simulations of neutral and stably stratified turbulent channel flow. Two dynamic procedures are evaluated: one based on the local equilibrium hypothesis (called local-dynamic models) and one based on the global equilibrium and steady state hypotheses (global-dynamic models). These local-dynamic (LD) and global-dynamic (GD) versions of MGM are found to be much more accurate than the constant coefficient MGM in neutral turbulent channel flow at friction Reynolds numbers of 180 and 590. The constant coefficient MGM and GD-MGM are also found to yield the correct asymptotic behaviour close to the wall, which indicates the suitability of coupling the MGM kernel with the GD procedure. For the SGS scalar flux vector, LD and GD versions of the MGM are evaluated along with LD and GD versions of the recently proposed Smagorinsky-gradient (SGM) and Vreman-gradient (VGM) models. Tests in neutral and stably stratified channel flow at friction Reynolds number of 180 and friction Richardson numbers of 0 and 18 reveal that all six dynamic SGS scalar flux vector models are able to reproduce first-order and second-order turbulent statistics accurately. The simulations help further establish the stability and accuracy of SGM and VGM, which have not been tested previously. None of the dynamic gradient-based SGS scalar flux vector models are found to yield the correct asymptotic behaviour, however, and this issue needs further investigation.