Large Eddy Simulation of Three Dimensional High Speed Aerodynamic Flows

Abstract

An unstructured grid Large Eddy Simulation (LES) methodology has been developed for compressible high speed flows. The filtered compressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved on an unstructured grid of tetrahedra. The inviscid fluxes are obtained from an exact locally one-dimensional Riemann solver using Godunov's method. The viscous fluxes are obtained using a discrete analog of Gauss' Theorem. The reconstruction is performed using a Least Squares technique. The temporal integration is a Runge-Kutta method. The algorithm is overall second order accurate in space and time. Four flow fields have been computed: supersonic flat plate boundary layer, supersonic compression corner, supersonic expansion-compression corner and subsonic square jet. The computed results show close agreement with experiment and Direct Numerical Simulation, and validate the unstructured grid LES methodology.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 2002
Accession Number
ADA409569

Entities

People

  • Doyle D. Knight

Organizations

  • Rutgers University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Large Eddy Simulation
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Mixing
  • Reynolds Number
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster