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NASA NTRS1982

Turbulent transport modelling of separating and reattaching shear flows

The improvement of capabilities for computer simulation of turbulent recirculating flows was investigated. Attention has been limited to two dimensional flows and principally to statistically stationary motion. Improvement of turbulence modeling explored the treatment of the near wall sublayer and of the exterior fully turbulent region, working within the framework of turbulence closures requiring the solution of transport equations for the turbulence energy and its dissipation rate. The work on the numerical procedure, based on the Gosman-Pun program TEACH, addressed the problems of incorporating the turbulence model as well as the extension to time dependent flows, the incorporation of a third order approximation of convective transport, and the treatment of non-orthogonal boundaries.

Launder, B. E.↗
NASA NTRS1982

Turbulent transport modeling of shear flows around an aerodynamic wing. Development of turbulent near-wall model and its application to recirculating flows

Progress in implementing and refining two near-wall turbulence models in which the near-wall region is divided into either two or three zones is outlined. These models were successfully applied to the computation of recirculating flows. The research was further extended to obtaining experimental results of two different recirculating flow conditions in order to check the validity of the present models. Two different experimental apparatuses were set up: axisymmetric turbulent impinging jets on a flat plate, and turbulent flows in a circular pipe with a abrupt pipe expansion. It is shown that generally better results are obtained by using the present near-wall models, and among the models the three-zone model is superior to the two-zone model.

Amano, R. S.↗
NASA NTRS1983

A turbulence model for three dimensional turbulent shear flows over curved rotating bodies

There exists currently considerable interest in the development of numerical procedures for solving the equations governing three-dimensional fluid flows. In particular, improved calculations of viscous flows on rotating bodies such a turbomachinery rotors are of great importance. The present investigation is mainly concerned with the analysis of the effect of rotation on the dissipation rate equation and the Reynolds stress equations. Attention is given to governing equations and modelling, algebraic Reynolds stress equations, a procedure for implementing the turbulence closure scheme, results for a model representative of centrifugal turbomachinery, and results for axial turbomachinery. The proposed turbulence model is valid for three-dimensional, rotating, and curved flows. The model has all the essential physics of turbulence, mean flow, rotation, and the curvature.

Galmes, J. M.↗
NASA NTRS1981

Unsteady turbulent shear flow in shock tube discontinuities

A pressure-ruptured shock tube and an arc driven shock tube, have been used to study the evolution of turbulent fluctuations at contact surfaces with N2O4-2NO2 mixtures and at ionizing shock fronts in argon. The study has focused on point density diagnostics derived from crossed light beam correlations and electric probes. Turbulent bursts are found for which dynamical and spectral analyses suggest a particle-like evolution of fluctuation segments with a unique and characteristic frequency, independent of flow history and overall flow conditions.

Johnson, J. A., III↗
NASA NTRS1983

Simulation of turbulent shear flows at Stanford and NASA-Ames - What can we do and what have we learned?

The capabilities and limitations of large eddy simulation (LES) and full turbulence simulation (FTS) are outlined. It is pointed out that LES, although limited at the present time by the need for periodic boundary conditions, produces large-scale flow behavior in general agreement with experiments. What is more, FTS computations produce small-scale behavior that is consistent with available experiments. The importance of the development work being done on the National Aerodynamic Simulator is emphasized. Studies at present are limited to situations in which periodic boundary conditions can be applied on boundaries of the computational domain where the flow is turbulent.

Reynolds, W. C.↗
NASA NTRS1983

Generation of sound in turbulent shear flows

An alternative to the Lighthill acoustic analogy for jet noise is discussed. It involves calculating the unsteady flow that produces the sound along with its resulting sound field starting from a prescribed upstream state that, ideally, is specified just ahead of the region where the sound generation takes place. Sound generation by turbulence interacting with solid obstacles is considered. It is shown that the process can be described by linear theory. Sound generated by turbulence interacting with itself is discussed. The processes are nonlinear and the theory is incomplete. Theories of sound generation are compared with experiment and the inadequacies of each are indicated. Additional mechanisms that appear at supersonic speeds are discussed.

Goldstein, M. E.↗
NASA NTRS1982

Numerical simulation of wall-bounded turbulent shear flows

Developments in three dimensional, time dependent numerical simulation of turbulent flows bounded by a wall are reviewed. Both direct and large eddy simulation techniques are considered within the same computational framework. The computational spatial grid requirements as dictated by the known structure of turbulent boundary layers are presented. The numerical methods currently in use are reviewed and some of the features of these algorithms, including spatial differencing and accuracy, time advancement, and data management are discussed. A selection of the results of the recent calculations of turbulent channel flow, including the effects of system rotation and transpiration on the flow are included. Previously announced in STAR as N82-28577

Moin, P.↗
NASA NTRS1984

Study of the structure of turbulent shear flows at supersonic speeds and high Reynolds number

A major effort to improve the accuracies of turbulence measurement techniques is described including the development and testing of constant temperature hot-wire anemometers which automatically compensate for frequency responses. Calibration and data acquisition techniques for normal and inclined wires operated in the constant temperature mode, flow geometries, and physical models to explain the observed behavior of flows are discussed, as well as cooperation with computational groups in the calculation of compression corner flows.

Smits, A. J.↗
NASA NTRS1984

Some structural features of unsteady separating turbulent shear flows

Some physical features of unsteady separating turbulent boundary layers are presented for practical Reynolds numbers and reduced frequencies for helicopter and turbomachinery flows. Upstream of detachment in moderate amplitude flows, the flow is quasi steady, i.e., the phase averaged flow is described by the steady-free stream flow structure. Results show that oscillation waveform and amplitude strongly influence the detached flow behavior.

Simpson, R. L.↗
NASA NTRS1985

Numerical experiments on the stability of controlled shear flows

Three-dimensional, nonlinear simulations are presented for the parallel water boundary layer subjected to pressure gradient, suction, or heating control. The focus is on the secondary instability responsible for the K-type transition. Heating control is found to be the least effective in delaying the secondary instability. Flow-field details (including temperature profiles) are presented for both the uncontrolled boundary layer and the heated boundary layer.

Zang, T. A.↗
NASA NTRS1985

A turbulent transport model for free-shear flows

An attempt is made to formulate a more accurate and physically plausible diffusion model, which will include the effects of large eddy motion on turbulent transport, by incorporating bulk convection and gradient diffusion. The two-equation model of turbulence thus obtained is used in self-similar form to calculate axisymmetric and plane two-dimensional jets.

Biringen, S.↗
NASA NTRS1985

Finite-amplitude steady waves in plane viscous shear flows

Computations of two-dimensional solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations are carried out for finite-amplitude waves on steady unidirectional flow. Several cases are considered. The numerical method employs pseudospectral techniques in the streamwise direction and finite differences on a stretched grid in the transverse direction, with matching to asymptotic solutions when unbounded. Earlier results for Poiseuille flow in a channel are re-obtained, except that attention is drawn to the dependence of the minimum Reynolds number on the physical constraint of constant flux or constant pressure gradient. Attempts to calculate waves in Couette flow by continuation in the velocity of a channel wall fail. The asymptotic suction boundary layer is shown to possess finite-amplitude waves at Reynolds numbers orders of magnitude less than the critical Reynolds number for linear instability. Waves in the Blasius boundary layer and unsteady Rayleigh profile are calculated by employing the artifice of adding a body force to cancel the spatial or temporal growth. The results are verified by comparison with perturbation analysis in the vicinity of the linear-instability critical Reynolds numbers.

Milinazzo, F. A.↗
NASA NTRS1986

Third-moment closure of turbulence for predictions of separating and reattaching shear flows: A study of Reynolds-stress closure model

A numerical study of computations in backward-facing steps with flow separation and reattachment, using the Reynolds stress closure is presented. The highlight of this study is the improvement of the Reynold-stress model (RSM) by modifying the diffusive transport of the Reynolds stresses through the formulation, solution and subsequent incorporation of the transport equations of the third moments, bar-u(i)u(j)u(k), into the turbulence model. The diffusive transport of the Reynolds stresses, represented by the gradients of the third moments, attains greater significance in recirculating flows. The third moments evaluated by the development and solution of the complete transport equations are superior to those obtained by existing algebraic correlations. A low-Reynolds number model for the transport equations of the third moments is developed and considerable improvement in the near-wall profiles of the third moments is observed. The values of the empirical constants utilized in the development of the model are recommended. The Reynolds-stress closure is consolidated by incorporating the equations of k and e, containing the modified diffusion coefficients, and the transport equations of the third moments into the Reynolds stress equations. Computational results obtained by the original k-e model, the original RSM and the consolidated and modified RSM are compared with experimental data. Overall improvement in the predictions is seen by consolidation of the RMS and a marked improvement in the profiles of bar-u(i)u(j)u(k) is obtained around the reattachment region.

Amano, R. S.↗