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A RANS/DES Numerical Procedure for Axisymmetric Flows with and without Strong Rotation (open access)

A RANS/DES Numerical Procedure for Axisymmetric Flows with and without Strong Rotation

A RANS/DES numerical procedure with an extended Lax-Wendroff control-volume scheme and turbulence model is described for the accurate simulation of internal/external axisymmetric flow with and without strong rotation. This new procedure is an extension, from Cartesian to cylindrical coordinates, of (1) a second order accurate multi-grid, control-volume integration scheme, and (2) a k-{omega} turbulence model. This paper outlines both the axisymmetric corrections to the mentioned numerical schemes and the developments of techniques pertaining to numerical dissipation, multi-block connectivity, parallelization, etc. Furthermore, analytical and experimental case studies are presented to demonstrate accuracy and computational efficiency. Notes are also made toward numerical stability of highly rotational flows.
Date: October 30, 2007
Creator: Andrade, A J
System: The UNT Digital Library