Analysis of high-order velocity moments in a strained channel flow |
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Institution: | 1. Mechanical Engineering Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA;2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA |
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Abstract: | In the current study, model expressions for fifth-order velocity moments obtained from the truncated Gram-Charlier series expansions model for a turbulent flow field probability density function are validated using data from direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a planar turbulent flow in a strained channel. Simplicity of the model expressions, the lack of unknown coefficients, and their applicability to non-Gaussian turbulent flows make this approach attractive to use for closing turbulent models based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations. The study confirms validity of the model expressions. It also shows that the imposed flow deformation improves an agreement between the model and DNS profiles for the fifth-order moments in the flow buffer zone including when the flow reverses its direction. The study reveals sensitivity of particularly odd velocity moments to the grid resolution. A new length scale is proposed as a criterion for the grid generation near the wall and in the other flow areas dominated by high mean velocity gradients when higher-order statistics have to be collected from DNS. |
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Keywords: | Turbulent wall-bounded flows RANS modeling Separation High-order velocity moments Turbulence lengthscales DNS data uncertainty |
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