Analysis of mesh effects on turbulent flow statistics

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2019.02.075zbMATH Open1446.76122arXiv1804.00745OpenAlexW2795993421WikidataQ128264583 ScholiaQ128264583MaRDI QIDQ2633768FDOQ2633768

Authors: Ali Pakzad 

Publication date: 10 May 2019

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Turbulence models, such as the Smagorinsky model herein, are used to represent the energy lost from resolved to under-resolved scales due to the energy cascade (i.e. non-linearity). Analytic estimates of the energy dissipation rates of a few turbulence models have recently appeared, but none (yet) study energy dissipation restricted to resolved scales, i.e. after spacial discretization with $h>$ micro scale. We do so herein for the Smagorinsky model. Upper bounds are derived on the extit{computed} time-averaged energy dissipation rate, $langlevarepsilon(u^h)angle$, for an under-resolved mesh $h$ for turbulent shear flow. For coarse mesh size $mathcalO(mathcal{Re}^{-1})<h<L$, it is proven, ${\displaystyle }$ langle varepsilon (u^h) angleleq �ig[ (frac{C_s, delta}{h})^2+ frac{L^5}{(C_s delta)^4,h}+frac{L^{frac{5}{2}}}{(C_s, delta)^{4}}, {h^{frac{3}{2}}}�ig], frac{U^3}{L}, ${\displaystyle }$ where $U$ and $L$ are global velocity and length scale and $C_s$ and $delta$ are model parameters. This upper bound is independent of the viscosity at high Reynolds number, is in accord with the scaling theory of turbulent. This estimate suggests over-dissipation for any of $C_s>0$ and $delta>0$, consistent with numerical evidence on the effects of model viscosity (without wall damping function). Moreover, the analysis indicates that the turbulent boundary layer is a more important length scale for shear flow than the Kolmogorov microscale.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00745

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zbMATH Keywords

dissipationshear flowSmagorinsky modelturbulence modeleddy viscosity modelcoarse meshturbulent flow statisticsover-dissipation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Direct numerical and large eddy simulation of turbulence (76F65)

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