Improved Delayed Detached-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Vortex Shedding in Inert Flow over a Triangular Bluff Body

Matthew Richard McConnell, Jason Knight, James Buick

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Abstract

The Improved Delayed Detached-Eddy Simulation (IDDES) is a modification of the original Detached-Eddy Simulation (DES) design to incorporate Wall Modeled Large Eddy Simulation (WMLES) capabilities and to extend the class of flows suitable for this methodology. For thin attached boundary layers, typically seen in external aerodynamic flows, the DES branch of the model is active, whereas with thick boundary layers, typically seen in internal flows and also wake flows, the WMLES branch is active, thus providing a numeric method suited to handling most flow cases automatically. The flow over a triangular bluff body is used to validate the suitability of the IDDES model and compare the results with experimental, DDES, and LES data. The IDDES model is found to be relatively accurate when compared with the experimental results, with recirculation length, streamwise velocity, and Reynolds stresses all showing good agreement with the experimental data. However, when compared with the DDES model, there is a ~4% overprediction of the recirculation length using the same mesh and numerical scheme. The code, with its extra complexity, is also ~3% slower to solve. The IDDES model has also been tested against different meshes, and the results show that even for a coarse mesh, there is still good agreement with the experimental data.
Original languageEnglish
Article number246
Number of pages18
Journalfluids
Volume9
Issue number11
Early online date24 Oct 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2024

Keywords

  • hybrid RANS-LES
  • DDES
  • turbulent flow
  • triangular bluff body
  • vortices

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