Large eddy simulation of flow through a periodic array of urban-like obstacles using a canopy stress method
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DOI10.1016/J.COMPFLUID.2018.05.027zbMATH Open1410.76077arXiv1711.01373OpenAlexW2806940371WikidataQ129802047 ScholiaQ129802047MaRDI QIDQ720982FDOQ720982
Authors: Jahrul M. Alam, Luke P. J. Fitzpatrick 
Publication date: 18 July 2018
Published in: Computers and Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Large-eddy simulation (LES) of a turbulent flow through an array of building-like obstacles is an idealized model to study transport of contaminants in the urban atmospheric boundary layer (UABL). A reasonably accurate LES prediction of turbulence in such an UABL must resolve a significant proportion of the small but energetic eddies in the roughness sublayer, which remains prohibitive even though computational power has been increased significantly. In this article, we present a large-eddy simulation methodology to study turbulence in UABLs, where the turbulence closure is based on coupling the eddy viscosity method with the canopy stress method. Unlike the classical Smagorinsky model that considers only the strain portion of the velocity gradient tensor, we consider both the strain tensor and the rotation tensor to compute the eddy viscosity. This allows us to dynamically adapt the rate of energy dissipation to the scales of the energetic eddies in the roughness sublayer. Without employing a mesh conforming to the urban roughness elements, the effect of such solid bodies are represented in the LES model through a canopy stress method in which the loss of pressure and the sink of momentum due to the interaction between eddies and roughness elements are parameterized using the instantaneous velocity field. Simulation results of the proposed canopy stress method is compared with that of a conventional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method employing a block-structured mesh conforming around the roughness elements. For urban flow simulations, the results demonstrate that the proposed canopy stress model is accurate in predicting vertical profiles of mean and variance, as well as the temporal intermittency of coherent structures.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01373
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