A modified gas-kinetic scheme for turbulent flow

DOI10.4208/CICP.140813.021213AMaRDI QIDQ5372268zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marcello Righi

Publication date 27 October 2017

Published in Communications in Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.3082, https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/13398

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M08) Direct numerical and large eddy simulation of turbulence (76F65) Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28)

Abstract: By analogy with the kinetic theory of gases, most turbulence modeling strate- gies rely on an eddy viscosity to model the unresolved turbulent fluctuations. How- ever, the ratio of unresolved to resolved scales - very much like a degree of rarefaction - is not taken into account by the popular conventional schemes, based on the Navier- Stokes equations. This paper investigates the simulation of turbulent flow with a gas- kinetic scheme. In so doing, the modeling of turbulence becomes part of the numerical scheme: the degree of rarefaction is automatically taken into account; the turbulent stress tensor is not constrained into a linear relation with the strain rate. Instead it is modeled on the basis of the analogy between particles and eddies, without any as- sumptions on the type of turbulence or flow class. The implementation of a turbulent gas-kinetic scheme into a finite-volume solver is put forward, with turbulent kinetic energy and dissipation supplied by an allied turbulence model. A number of flow cases, challenging for conventional RANS methods, are investigated; results show that the shock-turbulent boundary layer is captured in a much more convincing way by the gas-kinetic scheme.

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