首页 | 本学科首页   官方微博 | 高级检索  
     


Simulation of flow pulsations in a twin rectangular sub-channel geometry using unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes modelling
Authors:D Home  MF Lightstone  MS Hamed
Affiliation:a Department of Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4L7
b Thermal Processing Laboratory (TPL), McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4L7
Abstract:An unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (URANS) based turbulence model, the Spalart-Allmaras (SA) model, was used to investigate the flow pulsation phenomena in compound rectangular channels for isothermal flows. The studied geometry was composed of two rectangular sub-channels connected by a gap, on which experiments were conducted by Meyer and Rehme (1994) and were used for the validation of numerical results. Two case studies were selected to study the effect of the advection scheme. The results from the first order upwind advection scheme had clear symmetry and periodicity. The frequency of flow pulsations was under predicted by almost a factor of two. Due to inevitable numerical diffusion of the first order upwind scheme, a second order accurate in space advection scheme was also considered. The span-wise velocity contours, velocity vector plots, and time traces of the velocity components showed the expected cross-flow mixing between the sub-channels through the gap. The predicted kinetic energy in the unsteady velocity fluctuations showed two clear peaks at the edges of the gap. The dynamics of the flow pulsations were quantitatively described through temporal auto-correlations and power spectral functions. The numerical predictions were in agreement with the experiments. Studies on the effect of the Reynolds number and the computational length of the domain were also performed. The numerical results reproduced the relationship between the Reynolds number and the frequency of the flow pulsations. The impact of the channel length was tested by simulating a longer channel with respect to the base case. It was found that the channel length did not significantly affect the numerical predictions. Simulations were also performed using the standard k-? model. While the flow pulsations were predicted with this model, the frequency of the pulsation was in poor agreement with the experimentally measured value.
Keywords:
本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录!
设为首页 | 免责声明 | 关于勤云 | 加入收藏

Copyright©北京勤云科技发展有限公司  京ICP备09084417号