Accession Number:
ADA232637
Title:
Second-Order Closure Models for Supersonic Turbulent Flows
Descriptive Note:
Contractor rept.
Corporate Author:
INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING HAMPTON VA
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1991-01-01
Pagination or Media Count:
25.0
Abstract:
Recent work on the development of a second-order closure model for high-speed compressible flows is reviewed. This turbulence closure is based on the solution of modeled transport equations for the Favre-averaged Reynolds stress tensor and the solenoidal part of the turbulent dissipation rate. A new model for the compressible dissipation is used along with traditional gradient transport models for the Reynolds heat flux and mass flux terms. Consistent with simple asymptotic analyses, the deviatoric part of the remaining higher-order correlations in the Reynolds stress transport equation are modeled by a variable density extension of the newest incompressible models. The resulting second order closure model is tested in a variety of compressible turbulent flows which include the decay of isotropic turbulence, homogeneous shear flow, the supersonic mixing layer, and the supersonic flat-plate turbulent boundary layer. Comparisons between the model predictions and the results of physical and numerical experiments are quite encouraging.
Descriptors:
- *SHEAR PROPERTIES
- DENSITY
- CLOSURES
- PREDICTIONS
- MODELS
- LAYERS
- FLUX(RATE)
- HIGH VELOCITY
- RATES
- DISSIPATION
- TURBULENCE
- TURBULENT FLOW
- VARIABLES
- TRANSPORT PROPERTIES
- MASS FLOW
- COMPRESSIBLE FLOW
- SOLUTIONS(GENERAL)
- ISOTROPISM
- FLOW
- NUMERICAL METHODS AND PROCEDURES
- EQUATIONS
- SUPERSONIC FLOW
- HEAT FLUX
- DECAY
- REYNOLDS NUMBER
- INCOMPRESSIBILITY
- GRADIENTS
- HOMOGENEITY
- MOMENTUM TRANSFER
- JET MIXING FLOW
- STRESSES
Subject Categories:
- Fluid Mechanics