Turbulent Inflow Generation for Large-Eddy Simulation of Incompressible Flows Through Buoyancy Perturbations

Authors

Rey DeLeon, Boise State University
Inanc Senocak, Boise State University

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2017

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2017-3294

Abstract

Turbulent inflow generation techniques for large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent boundary layers is an active area of research. Here, we investigate the use of the perturbation-box turbulent-inflow technique that feeds colored-noise perturbations to the velocity field through the Boussinesq buoyancy approximation. We use a bulk Richardson number based on the perturbation box height and the incoming mean velocity profile to estimate the amplitude of white noise added to the temperature channel flow at Re_r = 395 and show good agreement with direct numerical simulation benchmarks. We also demonstrate the applicability of the method to the backward-facing step case.

Publication Information

DeLeon, Rey and Senocak, Inanc. (2017). "Turbulent Inflow Generation for Large-Eddy Simulation of Incompressible Flows Through Buoyancy Perturbations". 23rd AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA AVIATION Forum, AIAA 2017-3294-1 - AIAA 2017-3294-9.