Sensitivity Analysis of Heat Transfer in a Honeycomb Acoustic Liner to Inlet Conditions With Large Eddy Simulation

Author(s):  
Florent Duchaine

This article presents a parametric numerical study to analyze the sensitivity of wall heat fluxes on an academic acoustic liner to inlet conditions. Large Eddy Simulation (LES) is used to simulate an array of 20 aligned honeycomb cells on a flat plate with 10% porosity characteristic of installed liners. The computational domain is periodic in the span direction comprising 2 honeycomb cells. The operating conditions are representative of cruise with a Mach number of 0.5 at ambient pressure and temperature. Comparisons of heat fluxes obtained on a none perforated flat plate with the honeycomb liner are proposed with different inlet conditions: steady laminar boundary layer profile, turbulence injection and acoustic perturbation injection at different frequencies. Results show that for the operating condition and the boundary layer thickness used, large differences are observed on the first cells of the liners resulting from different transition to turbulence processes. A first important difference exists from laminar and turbulent conditions where turbulent conditions exhibits higher heat fluxes as expected. Then, case pulsed at the resonant frequency of the honeycomb shows higher heat fluxes than other frequencies. Finally, after a given number of cells, the heat fluxes reach an asymptotic behavior at the same level which seems to be controlled by the turbulence generated by the interaction of the flow and the perforations whatever the inlet conditions.

2018 ◽  
Vol 853 ◽  
pp. 537-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Praveen Kumar ◽  
Krishnan Mahesh

Wall-resolved large-eddy simulation (LES) is used to simulate flow over an axisymmetric body of revolution at a Reynolds number, $Re=1.1\times 10^{6}$, based on the free-stream velocity and the length of the body. The geometry used in the present work is an idealized submarine hull (DARPA SUBOFF without appendages) at zero angle of pitch and yaw. The computational domain is chosen to avoid confinement effects and capture the wake up to fifteen diameters downstream of the body. The unstructured computational grid is designed to capture the fine near-wall flow structures as well as the wake evolution. LES results show good agreement with the available experimental data. The axisymmetric turbulent boundary layer has higher skin friction and higher radial decay of turbulence away from the wall, compared to a planar turbulent boundary layer under similar conditions. The mean streamwise velocity exhibits self-similarity, but the turbulent intensities are not self-similar over the length of the simulated wake, consistent with previous studies reported in the literature. The axisymmetric wake shifts from high-$Re$ to low-$Re$ equilibrium self-similar solutions, which were only observed for axisymmetric wakes of bluff bodies in the past.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antti Hellsten ◽  
Klaus Ketelsen ◽  
Matthias Sühring ◽  
Mikko Auvinen ◽  
Björn Maronga ◽  
...  

Abstract. Large-eddy simulation provides a physically sound approach to study complex turbulent processes within the atmospheric boundary layer including urban boundary layer flows. However, such flow problems often involve a large separation of turbulent scales, requiring a large computational domain and very high grid resolution near the surface features, leading to prohibitive computational costs. To overcome this problem, an online LES-LES nesting scheme is implemented into the PALM model system 6.0. The hereby documented and evaluated nesting method is capable of supporting multiple child domains which can be nested within their parent domain either in a parallel or recursively cascading configuration. The nesting system is evaluated by simulating first a purely convective boundary layer flow system and then three different neutrally-stratified flow scenarios with increasing order of topographic complexity. The results of the nested runs are compared with corresponding non-nested high- and low-resolution results. The results reveal that the solution accuracy within the high-resolution nest domain is clearly improved as the solutions approach the non-nested high-resolution reference results. In obstacle-resolving LES, the two-way coupling becomes problematic as anterpolation introduces a regional discrepancy within the obstacle canopy of the parent domain. This is remedied by introducing canopy-restricted anterpolation where the operation is only performed above the obstacle canopy. The test simulations make evident that this approach is the most suitable coupling strategy for obstacle-resolving LES. The performed simulations testify that nesting can reduce the CPU time up to 80 % compared to the fine-resolution reference runs while the computational overhead from the nesting operations remained below 16 % for the two-way coupling approach and significantly less for the one-way alternative.


2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Solkeun Jee ◽  
Jongwook Joo ◽  
Ray-Sing Lin

An efficient large-eddy simulation (LES) approach is investigated for laminar-to-turbulent transition in boundary layers. This approach incorporates the boundary-layer stability theory. Primary instability and subharmonic perturbations determined by the boundary-layer stability theory are assigned as forcing at the inlet of the LES computational domain. This LES approach reproduces the spatial development of instabilities in the boundary layer, as observed in wind tunnel experiments. Detailed linear growth and nonlinear interactions that lead to the H-type breakdown are well captured and compared well to previous direct numerical simulation (DNS). Requirements in the spatial resolution in the transition region are investigated with connections to the resolution in turbulent boundary layers. It is shown that the subgrid model used in this study is apparently dormant in the overall transitional region, allowing the right level of the growth of small-amplitude instabilities and their nonlinear interactions. The subgrid model becomes active near the end of the transition where the length scales of high-order instabilities become smaller in size compared to the given grid resolution. Current results demonstrate the benefit of the boundary-layer forcing method for the computational cost reduction.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 3185-3214
Author(s):  
Antti Hellsten ◽  
Klaus Ketelsen ◽  
Matthias Sühring ◽  
Mikko Auvinen ◽  
Björn Maronga ◽  
...  

Abstract. Large-eddy simulation (LES) provides a physically sound approach to study complex turbulent processes within the atmospheric boundary layer including urban boundary layer flows. However, such flow problems often involve a large separation of turbulent scales, requiring a large computational domain and very high grid resolution near the surface features, leading to prohibitive computational costs. To overcome this problem, an online LES–LES nesting scheme is implemented into the PALM model system 6.0. The hereby documented and evaluated nesting method is capable of supporting multiple child domains, which can be nested within their parent domain either in a parallel or recursively cascading configuration. The nesting system is evaluated by first simulating a purely convective boundary layer flow system and then three different neutrally stratified flow scenarios with increasing order of topographic complexity. The results of the nested runs are compared with corresponding non-nested high- and low-resolution results. The results reveal that the solution accuracy within the high-resolution nest domain is clearly improved as the solutions approach the non-nested high-resolution reference results. In obstacle-resolving LES, the two-way coupling becomes problematic as anterpolation introduces a regional discrepancy within the obstacle canopy of the parent domain. This is remedied by introducing canopy-restricted anterpolation where the operation is only performed above the obstacle canopy. The test simulations make evident that this approach is the most suitable coupling strategy for obstacle-resolving LES. The performed simulations testify that nesting can reduce the CPU time up to 80 % compared to the fine-resolution reference runs, while the computational overhead from the nesting operations remained below 16 % for the two-way coupling approach and significantly less for the one-way alternative.


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