A Subdomain Method for the Aeroacoustic Simulation of a Generic Side View Mirror

2013 ◽  
Vol 437 ◽  
pp. 321-324
Author(s):  
Li Na Huang ◽  
Ming Xin Xue ◽  
Hao Dong ◽  
Bo Yang

The aerodynamic noise caused by the flow field around a generic side view mirror (SVM) was simulated using a subdomain large eddy simulation (LES) method. In this method, the LES solution could be run only in the subdomain, which can be the flow field near the SVM. The subdomain LES results show good agreement with the cited experimental data in some related works. With the principal advantage of saving CFD cell numbers, the subdomain LES method would be a perspective way to simulate the aerodynamic noise of complex geometries such as the real automobiles.

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Tomimatsu ◽  
Y. Yamade ◽  
Y. Hirokawa ◽  
N. Nishikawa

2007 ◽  
Vol 129 (12) ◽  
pp. 1514-1523 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Fureby

The present study concerns the application of large eddy simulation (LES) and implicit LES (ILES) to engineering flow problems. Such applications are often very complicated, involving both complex geometries and complex physics, such as turbulence, chemical reactions, phase changes, and compressibility. The aim of the study is to illustrate what problems occur when attempting to perform such engineering flow calculations using LES and ILES, and put these in relation to the issues originally motivating the calculations. The issues of subgrid modeling are discussed with particular emphasis on the complex physics that needs to be incorporated into the LES models. Results from representative calculations, involving incompressible flows around complex geometries, aerodynamic noise, compressible flows, combustion, and cavitation, are presented, discussed, and compared with experimental data whenever possible.


Author(s):  
Yigang Luan ◽  
Lianfeng Yang ◽  
Bo Wan ◽  
Tao Sun

Gas turbine engines have been widely used in modern industry especially in the aviation, marine and energy fields. The efficiency of gas turbines directly affects the economy and emissions. It’s acknowledged that the higher turbine inlet temperatures contribute to the overall gas turbine engine efficiency. Since the components are subject to the heat load, the internal cooling technology of turbine blades is of vital importance to ensure the safe and normal operation. This paper is focused on exploring the flow and heat transfer mechanism in matrix cooling channels. In order to analyze the internal flow field characteristics of this cooling configuration at a Reynolds number of 30000 accurately, large eddy simulation method is carried out. Methods of vortex identification and field synergy are employed to study its flow field. Cross-sectional views of velocity in three subchannels at different positions have been presented. The results show that the airflow is strongly disturbed by the bending part. It’s concluded that due to the bending structure, the airflow becomes complex and disordered. When the airflow goes from the inlet to the turning, some small-sized and discontinuous vortices are formed. Behind the bending structure, the size of the vortices becomes big and the vortices fill the subchannels. Because of the structure of latticework, the airflow is affected by each other. Airflow in one subchannel can exert a shear force on another airflow in the opposite subchannel. It’s the force whose direction is the same as the vortex that enhances the longitudinal vortices. And the longitudinal vortices contribute to the energy exchange of the internal airflow and the heat transfer between airflow and walls. Besides, a comparison of the CFD results and the experimental data is made to prove that the numerical simulation methods are reasonable and acceptable.


Author(s):  
Christian Klewer ◽  
Jens Kuehne ◽  
Johannes Janicka ◽  
Oliver Kornow

Many technical combustion devices are susceptible to thermoacoustic instabilities. In this work, the noise emission by a turbulent jet flame is analyzed by means of a hybrid LES/CAA (Large Eddy Simulation/Computational Aero Acoustics) approach as a first step towards a numerical investigation of combustion instability. The hybrid LES/CAA approach is based on a LES of the reactive flow utilizing a low Mach number formulation. Within the CAA part of the simulations, linearized Euler equations (LEE) are solved. A simplified formulation to describe the thermoacoustic sound sources is extracted from the reactive LES. For the present study, the CFD code FASTEST is coupled with the aeroacoustic simulation tool PIANO. The two solvers are combined to a single tool for the description of the acoustics of reacting flows. Both codes make use of geometry flexible grids enabling the simulation of complex geometries commonly used within technical combustion systems.


2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunfei Ma ◽  
Jiahuan Cui ◽  
Nagabhushana Rao Vadlamani ◽  
Paul Tucker

Inlet distortion often occurs under off-design conditions when a flow separates within an intake and this unsteady phenomenon can seriously impact fan performance. Fan–distortion interaction is a highly unsteady aerodynamic process into which high-fidelity simulations can provide detailed insights. However, due to limitations on the computational resource, the use of an eddy resolving method for a fully resolved fan calculation is currently infeasible within industry. To solve this problem, a mixed-fidelity computational fluid dynamics method is proposed. This method uses the large Eddy simulation (LES) approach to resolve the turbulence associated with separation and the immersed boundary method (IBM) with smeared geometry (IBMSG) to model the fan. The method is validated by providing comparisons against the experiment on the Darmstadt Rotor, which shows a good agreement in terms of total pressure distributions. A detailed investigation is then conducted for a subsonic rotor with an annular beam-generating inlet distortion. A number of studies are performed in order to investigate the fan's influence on the distortions. A comparison to the case without a fan shows that the fan has a significant effect in reducing distortions. Three fan locations are examined which reveal that the fan nearer to the inlet tends to have a higher pressure recovery. Three beams with different heights are also tested to generate various degrees of distortion. The results indicate that the fan can suppress the distortions and that the recovery effect is proportional to the degree of inlet distortion.


2019 ◽  
Vol 213 ◽  
pp. 02076
Author(s):  
Jan Sip ◽  
Frantisek Lizal ◽  
Jakub Elcner ◽  
Jan Pokorny ◽  
Miroslav Jicha

The velocity field in the area behind the automotive vent was measured by hot-wire anenemometry in detail and intensity of turbulence was calculated. Numerical simulation of the same flow field was performed using Computational fluid dynamics in commecial software STAR-CCM+. Several turbulence models were tested and compared with Large Eddy Simulation. The influence of turbulence model on the results of air flow from the vent was investigated. The comparison of simulations and experimental results showed that most precise prediction of flow field was provided by Spalart-Allmaras model. Large eddy simulation did not provide results in quality that would compensate for the increased computing cost.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-89
Author(s):  
Muhammad Saiful Islam Mallik ◽  
Md. Ashraf Uddin

A large eddy simulation (LES) of a plane turbulent channel flow is performed at a Reynolds number Re? = 590 based on the channel half width, ? and wall shear velocity, u? by approximating the near wall region using differential equation wall model (DEWM). The simulation is performed in a computational domain of 2?? x 2? x ??. The computational domain is discretized by staggered grid system with 32 x 30 x 32 grid points. In this domain the governing equations of LES are discretized spatially by second order finite difference formulation, and for temporal discretization the third order low-storage Runge-Kutta method is used. Essential turbulence statistics of the computed flow field based on this LES approach are calculated and compared with the available Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) and LES data where no wall model was used. Comparing the results throughout the calculation domain we have found that the LES results based on DEWM show closer agreement with the DNS data, especially at the near wall region. That is, the LES approach based on DEWM can capture the effects of near wall structures more accurately. Flow structures in the computed flow field in the 3D turbulent channel have also been discussed and compared with LES data using no wall model.


2019 ◽  
Vol 142 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mandana S. Saravani ◽  
Nicholas J. DiPasquale ◽  
Ahmad I. Abbas ◽  
Ryoichi S. Amano

Abstract This study presents findings on combined effects of Reynolds number and rotational effect for a two-pass channel with a 180-deg turn, numerically and experimentally. To have a better understanding of the flow behavior and to create a baseline for future studies, a smooth wall channel with the square cross section is used in this study. The Reynolds number varies between 6000 and 35,000. Furthermore, by changing the rotational speed, the maximum rotation number of 1.5 is achieved. For the numerical investigation, large eddy simulation (LES) is utilized. Results from the numerical study show a good agreement with the experimental data. From the results, it can be concluded that increasing both Reynolds number and rotational speed is in favor of the heat transfer coefficient enhancement, especially in the turn region.


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