Extended Implicit PIS-ALE Method to Efficient Simulation of Turbulent Flow Domains with Moving Boundaries
- 1 September 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Aerospace Engineering
- Vol. 34 (5), 04021048
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)as.1943-5525.0001279
Abstract
In this work, an implicit finite-volume-element (FVE) method is extended to efficiently simulate the vortical structure of unsteady turbulent flows in domains with moving meshes. The arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) approach is used to consider the motion of a hybrid mesh distributed in the solution domain. Conventional turbulence models are applied to simply confirm the sample achieved efficiency and accuracy in solving complex turbulent flow domains with moving boundaries. In this regard, the advective terms in the Navier-Stokes equations, including those in the transport equations for the applied turbulence models, are treated in a rather innovative manner. In other words, an advanced physical influence scheme (PIS) is suitably introduced in the context of extended ALE formulations. The accuracy and efficiency of the extended method are carefully evaluated by simulating various turbulent flows, including the fluid flow in stationary domains, separated turbulent flow over a bluff body problem, and the dynamic stall of fluid flow over a flapping airfoil. Comparing the current solutions with experimental data, it is shown that the current PIS-ALE method provides better accuracy and efficiency than those of past numerical methods, which used similar turbulence models in their algorithms.Keywords
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