Technique for forcing high Reynolds number isotropic turbulence in physical space

John A. Palmore, Jr. and Olivier Desjardins
Phys. Rev. Fluids 3, 034605 – Published 16 March 2018

Abstract

Many common engineering problems involve the study of turbulence interaction with other physical processes. For many such physical processes, solutions are expressed most naturally in physical space, necessitating the use of physical space solutions. For simulating isotropic turbulence in physical space, linear forcing is a commonly used strategy because it produces realistic turbulence in an easy-to-implement formulation. However, the method resolves a smaller range of scales on the same mesh than spectral forcing. We propose an alternative approach for turbulence forcing in physical space that uses the low-pass filtered velocity field as the basis of the forcing term. This method is shown to double the range of scales captured by linear forcing while maintaining the flexibility and low computational cost of the original method. This translates to a 60% increase of the Taylor microscale Reynolds number on the same mesh. An extension is made to scalar mixing wherein a scalar field is forced to have an arbitrarily chosen, constant variance. Filtered linear forcing of the scalar field allows for control over the length scale of scalar injection, which could be important when simulating scalar mixing.

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  • Received 29 July 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.034605

©2018 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Fluid Dynamics

Authors & Affiliations

John A. Palmore, Jr.* and Olivier Desjardins

  • Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA

  • *jap436@cornell.edu
  • olivier.desjardins@cornell.edu

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Vol. 3, Iss. 3 — March 2018

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