Flowfield-Dependent Mixed Explicit-Implicit(FDMEI) Algorithm Toward Direct Numerical Simulation in High Speed Flows

Abstract

This report covers the results of the research on new concepts and formulations aimed toward direct numerical simulation(DNS) dealing with high. speed flows. The research was motivated by the fact that it is desirable to develop a CFD program which can be applied to all speed regimes, both compressible and incompressible, both viscous and inviscid, and both laminar and turbulent flows, ideal for shock wave turbulent boundary layer interactions in hypersonics. The popular notion that DNS will resolve all turbulent microscales can be applied to incompressible flows. For compressible flows with shock waves interacting with turbulent boundary layers, however, difficulties arise in dealing with complex physical phenomena such as transition from laminar to turbulent flows, relaminalization, interactions between viscous and inviscid flows, and high temperature gradients close to the wall, particularly in hypersonics. No currently available CFD techniques are capable of resolving these physical phenomena simultaneously even in DNS.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 28, 1997
Accession Number
ADA329549

Entities

People

  • T. J. Chung

Organizations

  • University of Alabama in Huntsville

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Combustion
  • Compressible Flow
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Euler Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Incompressible Flow
  • Inviscid Flow
  • Mechanics
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Two Dimensional
  • Viscous Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Boundary Layers