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LES of an Inclined Jet into a Supersonic Turbulent Crossflow
This short article describes flow parameters, numerical method, and
animations of the fluid dynamics video "LES of an Inclined Jet into a
Supersonic Turbulent Crossflow"
(http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/14073/3/GFM-2009.mpg
[high-resolution] and
http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/14073/2/GFM-2009-web.m1v
[low-resolution] video). We performed large-eddy simulation with the sub-grid
scale (LES-SGS) stretched-vortex model of momentum and scalar transport to
study the gas-dynamics interactions of a helium inclined round jet into a
supersonic () turbulent (\Reth) air flow over a flat
surface. The video shows the temporal development of Mach-number and magnitude
of density-gradient in the mid-span plane, and isosurface of helium
mass-fraction and \lam_2 (vortical structures). The identified vortical
structures are sheets, tilted tubes, and discontinuous rings. The vortical
structures are shown to be well correlated in space and time with helium
mass-fraction isosurface ().Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, article describing fluid dynamics video
submitted to Gallery of Fluid Motion, APS-DFD 200
Numerical Investigation of Second Mode Attenuation over Carbon/Carbon Surfaces on a Sharp Slender Cone
We have carried out axisymmetric numerical simulations of a spatially
developing hypersonic boundary layer over a sharp 7-half-angle cone
at inspired by the experimental investigations by Wagner (2015).
Simulations are first performed with impermeable (or solid) walls with a
one-time broadband pulse excitation applied upstream to determine the most
convectively-amplified frequencies resulting in the range 260kHz -- 400kHz,
consistent with experimental observations of second-mode instability waves.
Subsequently, we introduce harmonic disturbances via continuous periodic
suction and blowing at 270kHz and 350kHz. For each of these forcing frequencies
complex impedance boundary conditions (IBC), modeling the acoustic response of
two different carbon/carbon (C/C) ultrasonically absorptive porous surfaces,
are applied at the wall. The IBCs are derived as an output of a pore-scale
aeroacoustic analysis -- the inverse Helmholtz Solver (iHS) -- which is able to
return the broadband real and imaginary components of the surface-averaged
impedance. The introduction of the IBCs in all cases leads to a significant
attenuation of the harmonically-forced second-mode wave. In particular, we
observe a higher attenuation rate of the introduced waves with frequency of
350kHz in comparison with 270kHz, and, along with the iHS impedance results, we
establish that the C/C surfaces absorb acoustic energy more effectively at
higher frequencies.Comment: AIAA-SciTech 201
A concurrent precursor inflow method for Large Eddy Simulations and applications to finite length wind farms
In order to enable simulations of developing wind turbine array boundary
layers with highly realistic inflow conditions a concurrent precursor method
for Large Eddy Simulations is proposed. In this method we consider two domains
simultaneously, i.e. in one domain a turbulent Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL)
without wind turbines is simulated in order to generate the turbulent inflow
conditions for a second domain in which the wind turbines are placed. The
benefit of this approach is that a) it avoids the need for large databases in
which the turbulent inflow conditions are stored and the correspondingly slow
I/O operations and b) we are sure that the simulations are not negatively
affected by statically swept fixed inflow fields or synthetic fields lacking
the proper ABL coherent structures. Sample applications are presented, in
which, in agreement with field data a strong decrease of the power output of
downstream wind-turbines with respect to the first row of wind-turbines is
observed for perfectly aligned inflow.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure
Quantification of errors in large-eddy simulations of a spatially-evolving mixing layer
A stochastic approach based on generalized Polynomial Chaos (gPC) is used to
quantify the error in Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) of a spatially-evolving
mixing layer flow and its sensitivity to different simulation parameters, viz.
the grid stretching in the streamwise and lateral directions and the subgrid
scale model constant (). The error is evaluated with respect to the
results of a highly resolved LES (HRLES) and for different quantities of
interest, namely the mean streamwise velocity, the momentum thickness and the
shear stress. A typical feature of the considered spatially evolving flow is
the progressive transition from a laminar regime, highly dependent on the inlet
conditions, to a fully-developed turbulent one. Therefore the computational
domain is divided in two different zones (\textit{inlet dependent} and
\textit{fully turbulent}) and the gPC error analysis is carried out for these
two zones separately. An optimization of the parameters is also carried out for
both these zones. For all the considered quantities, the results point out that
the error is mainly governed by the value of the constant. At the end of
the inlet-dependent zone a strong coupling between the normal stretching ratio
and the value is observed. The error sensitivity to the parameter values
is significantly larger in the inlet-dependent upstream region; however, low
error values can be obtained in this region for all the considered physical
quantities by an ad-hoc tuning of the parameters. Conversely, in the turbulent
regime the error is globally lower and less sensitive to the parameter
variations, but it is more difficult to find a set of parameter values leading
to optimal results for all the analyzed physical quantities
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