Simulation of Turbulent Flows
- LES & DES with FLUENT
Sung-Eun Kim
Principal Engineer
June 9, 2004
Agenda
What is LES?
Why LES?
What about the cost?
What does FLUENT offer?
Best-practice LES with FLUENT
Closing Remarks
What Is LES? – Basic Concepts (1)
Turbulent flow consists of eddies (structures) with
wide range of length and time scales.
In LES, large, energy-carrying eddies are directly
computed (resolved), and the remaining smaller
eddies are modeled.
What Is LES? – Basic Concepts (2)
energy cascade
(Richardson, 1922)
What Is LES?
Filtering - Decomposition
(
(
)
xu
xu
t
t
,
,
′+
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subgrid
scale
resolved
scale
(
xu
,
=
)
t
)
E
Energy spectrum
against the length scale
(
)t,xu
(
)t,xu′
π2
f∆
π2
l
What Is LES?
Filtering of a Variable
A random variable, φ(x), is filtered using a space-
filter function, G
φ
x
)(
=
(
φ
x
G
)
′
xx
)
,(
′
x
d
′
∫
D
With the top-hat filter (among others)
ν
for
∈′
otherwise
V
/1
)
=′
0
The filtered variable becomes
,
xx
x
G
(
φ
x
)(
=
1
V
∫
ν
(
φ
x
)
′
d
x
x
,
′
∈′
V
What Is LES?
Filtered Navier-Stoke Equations
Filtering the original Navier-Stokes equations gives
filtered Navier-Stokes equations that are the
governing equations in LES.
N-S
equation
i
u
∂
t
∂
+
j
uu
∂
i
x
∂
j
−=
1
ρ
p
∂
x
∂
i
+
∂
x
∂
j
u
∂
ν
x
∂
i
j
Filter
Filtered N-S
equation
i
u
∂
t
∂
+
j
uu
∂
i
x
∂
j
−=
1
ρ
∂
x
∂
ν
u
∂
x
∂
i
j
−
∂
τ
ij
x
∂
j
j
+
p
∂
x
∂
i
uu
i
−
≡τ
ij
uu
i
j
j
Needs modeling
Sub-grid scale (SGS) stress
Agenda
What is LES?
Why LES?
What about the cost?
What does FLUENT offer?
Best-practice LES with FLUENT
Closing Remarks