TY - JOUR
T1 - Turbulence Modeling for Turbulent Boundary Layers at Supercritical Pressure
T2 - A Model for Turbulent Mass Flux
AU - Kawai, Soshi
AU - Oikawa, Yoshihito
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) KAKENHI 26709066. Computer resources of the K computer was provided by the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science through the HPCI System Research project (Project ID: hp150035, hp160133, and hp170056).
Funding Information:
This work was supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) KAKENHI 26709066. Computer resources of the K computer was provided by the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science through the HPCI System Research project (Project ID: hp150035, hp160133, and hp170056).
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© 2019, Springer Nature B.V.
PY - 2020/3/1
Y1 - 2020/3/1
N2 - Based on the analysis of the direct numerical simulation (DNS) database of the heated and unheated turbulent boundary layers at supercritical pressures (Kawai J. Fluid Mech. 865, 563 2019), this paper proposes a Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence modeling for predicting the turbulent boundary layers at supercritical pressure where large density fluctuations are induced by the pseudo-boiling phenomena. The proposed approach is to model the mass flux contribution term Mτ=ui′′¯∂τij¯/∂xj in the turbulent kinetic energy equation (more specifically the turbulent mass flux ui′′¯=−ρ′ui′¯/ρ¯ in Mτ term) and add the modeled Mτ to the k-transport equation in the RANS model in order to incorporate the effects of the large density fluctuations on turbulence observed in the DNS. The key idea of modeling the turbulent mass flux in Mτ is to employ the gradient diffusion hypothesis and we propose to model ui′′¯ as a function that is proportional to the density gradient (i.e. ui′′¯∝μ¯t∂ρ¯/∂xj). The proposed RANS model shows significant improvements over existing models for predicting the logarithmic law for the mean velocity and temperature in the turbulent boundary layers at supercritical pressure, something that existing RANS models fail to do robustly.
AB - Based on the analysis of the direct numerical simulation (DNS) database of the heated and unheated turbulent boundary layers at supercritical pressures (Kawai J. Fluid Mech. 865, 563 2019), this paper proposes a Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence modeling for predicting the turbulent boundary layers at supercritical pressure where large density fluctuations are induced by the pseudo-boiling phenomena. The proposed approach is to model the mass flux contribution term Mτ=ui′′¯∂τij¯/∂xj in the turbulent kinetic energy equation (more specifically the turbulent mass flux ui′′¯=−ρ′ui′¯/ρ¯ in Mτ term) and add the modeled Mτ to the k-transport equation in the RANS model in order to incorporate the effects of the large density fluctuations on turbulence observed in the DNS. The key idea of modeling the turbulent mass flux in Mτ is to employ the gradient diffusion hypothesis and we propose to model ui′′¯ as a function that is proportional to the density gradient (i.e. ui′′¯∝μ¯t∂ρ¯/∂xj). The proposed RANS model shows significant improvements over existing models for predicting the logarithmic law for the mean velocity and temperature in the turbulent boundary layers at supercritical pressure, something that existing RANS models fail to do robustly.
KW - RANS turbulence model
KW - Supercritical flow
KW - Turbulent boundary layer
KW - Turbulent mass flux
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U2 - 10.1007/s10494-019-00079-z
DO - 10.1007/s10494-019-00079-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075241667
VL - 104
SP - 625
EP - 641
JO - Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
JF - Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
SN - 1386-6184
IS - 2-3
ER -