Numerical modeling of 3D flow field among a compound stilling basin

DOI10.1155/2019/5934274MaRDI QIDQ2298592zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhao Zhou, Junxing Wang

Publication date 20 February 2020

Published in Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/5934274

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) (k)-(varepsilon) modeling in turbulence (76F60)

Review text

Summary: Due to great velocity gradients among the outgoing flow, it is much common to form large-scale reverse flow with oblique movements outside the conventional separated stilling basin. Aimed at above problems, this paper proposes to remove the longitudinal splitter wall and then physically and numerically investigate the corresponding influence upon the compound stilling basin. The standard k-\( \varepsilon \), renormalization group k-\( \varepsilon \), realizable k-\( \varepsilon \), and large eddy simulation turbulence models are all employed to reveal downstream three-dimensional flow field. Experimental validation of numerical results shows that the renormalization group k-\( \varepsilon\) turbulence model is the most successful in predicting the flow field among the four models. Both methods prove that the removed splitter wall exerts great impact upon downstream stilling basin. In view of the removed splitter wall, discharging inflow would greatly diffuse to form a typical three-dimensional (3D) hydraulic jump with large-scale reverse flow. High energy dissipation region and high turbulent kinetic energy region are both moved upstream. Thus, the velocity decay among the discharging flow in the compound stilling basin is significantly enhanced. Compared to the separated stilling basin, the maximum velocity and average velocity of the outgoing flow, respectively, decrease more than 30\%, and 20\% in the compound stilling basin. Additionally, the velocity gradients between the left and the right outgoing flow reduce by over 65\% with turbulent kinetic energy gradients almost down to zero. The outgoing flow from the compound stilling basin becomes much uniform with the phenomenon of obliquely moving flow totally eliminated.

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