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A Study on Flow Characteristics of Two-Dimensional Backward-Facing Step by CFD (CFD에 의한 2차원 후향계단에서의 재부착 유동특성에 관한 연구)

  • Choi Y. D.;Lee Y. H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1998.11a
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    • pp.127-132
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    • 1998
  • The present study is aimed to investigate flow characteristics of Two dimensional backward-facing step by numerical approach. A convection conservative difference scheme based upon SOLA algorithm is used for the solution of the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations to simulate the laminar, transitional and turbulent flow conditions at which the experimental data can be available for the backward-facing step. The twenty kinds of Reynolds number are used for the calculations. In an effort to demonstrate that the reported solutions are dependent on the mesh refinement, computations are performed on seven different meshes of uniformly increasing refinement. Also to investigate the result of inflow dependence, two kinds of the inflow profile are chosen for the laminar flow. As criterion of benchmarking the result of numerical simulation, reattachment length is used for the selected Reynolds numbers.

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A Study on Flow Characteristics of Two-Dimensional Backward-Facing Step by CFD (CFD에 의한 2차원 후향계단에서의 재부착 유동특성에 관한 연구)

  • 이영호
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.9-18
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    • 1999
  • The present study is aimed to investigate flow characteristics of two-dimensional backward-fac-ing step by numerical approach. A convection conservation difference scheme based upon SOLA algorithm is used for the solution of the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations to simulate the laminar transitional and trubulent flow conditions at which the experimental data can be available for the backlward-facing step. The twenty kinds of reynolds number are used for the calculations. In an effort to demonstrate that the reported solutions are dependent on the mesh refinement computations are performed on seven different meshes of uniformly increasing refinement. also to investigate the result of inflow dependence two kinds of the inflow profile are chosen for the laminar flow. Irregular grid is adopted to minimize the errors on the satis-faction fo the discretized continuity. As criterion of benchmarking the result of numerical simula-tion reattachment lengthis used for the selected Reynolds numbers. The results of the present study prove the fact that the numerical predictions agree well with the experimental data and the flow characteristics are shown at the backward-facing step.

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ASSESSMENT OF URANS AND DES SIMULATIONS FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL BACKWARD FACING STEP FLOW (2차원 후항계단유동에 대한 URANS와 DES의 수치해석 평가)

  • Song C.S.;Park S.O.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.11 no.2 s.33
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    • pp.25-31
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    • 2006
  • A two-dimensional backward facing step flow is simulated by using URANS and Detached Eddy Simulations(DES) approaches. Turbulence models adopted for URANS and DES simulations are Spalart-Allmaras(S-A) model and Shear Stress Transport(SST) model. The target flow with ER=1.125, $Re_H=37,500$ is experimentally studied by Driver & Seegmiller. Various versions of DES have been tested in this paper. Results of the simulations are compared with the experimental data available to evaluate the merits and demerits of URANS and several versions of DES. URANS simulation converges to a steady state and hence unsteady characteristics are not featured. DES simulations in general successfully mimic large scale structures and oscillation characteristics of the flow.

Effects of Boundary Conditions on Redevelopment of the Boundary Layer in a Backward-Facing Step Flow (후향단유동내 경계층의 재발달에 미치는 경계조건의 영향)

  • Kim, Dong-Il;Lee, Moon-J.;Chun, Chung-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.06e
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    • pp.506-511
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    • 2001
  • This paper presents how redevelopment of the boundary layer in a backward-facing step flow is affected by boundary conditions imposed on velocity at the inlet, top and exit of the flow. A two-dimensional, laminar, incompressible flow over a backward-facing step with an open top boundary has been computed by using numerical methods of second-order time and spatial accuracy and a fractional-step method that guarantees a divergence-free velocity field at all time. The inlet velocity profile above the step is of Blasius type. Along the top boundary, shear-tree and Dirichlet conditions on the streamwise velocity were considered and at the exit fully-developed and convective boundary conditions were examined. (The vertical velocity at all boundaries were assumed to be zero explicitly or implicitly.) From the computed flow fields, the reattachment on the bottom side of shear layer separated from the tip of the step and succeeding redevelopment of the boundary layer were investigated.

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Effect of the spanwise grid spacing and treatment of convection term in DES

  • Song, Chi-Su;Park, Seung-O
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2007
  • A two-dimensional backward facing step flow was comptuted using a Detached Eddy simulation(DES) based on the SST turbulence model. The expansion ratio(ER) was 1.125 and the Reynolds number based on the step height and the mean velocity in the upstream channel was 37,500. The flow condition was the same as with the experimental research[1]. The reattachment length, oscillatory characteristics of the flow and the coherent structures of the present simulation were compared to demonstrate the improtance of spanwise grid spacing.

Experimental Study on the Flow Behind an Axisymmetric Backward-Facing Step (축대칭 하향단 흐름에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • 김경천;부정숙;양종필
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.18 no.9
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    • pp.2463-2476
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    • 1994
  • Local mean fluctuating velocity components were measured in the separating and reattaching axisymmetrc region of turbulent boundary layer over the wall of convex cylinders placed in a water tunnel by using 2-color 4-beam fiber optics laser Doppler velocimetry. Measurements were made with three different diameters of cylinders with four different diameters of cylinders with four different diameter of the obstructions. The range of Reynolds number based on step height was between 5,000 to 25,200. The study demonstrates that the reattachment length decreases with decreasing cylinder radius and is always shorter than that for the two-dimensional backward-facing step flow at the condition of the same step height. It was also observed that the turbulent kinetic energy in the recirculating region increases with an increases in the radius of convex curvature. The measured velocity field suggests that the transverse curvature can effect definitely the formation of corner eddy.

Effect of Two-Frequency Forcing on Flow Behind a Backward-Facing Step (이중주파수 가진이 후향계단 유동에 미치는 영향)

  • Yu, Jeong-Yeol;Jin, Song-Wan;Kim, Seong-Uk;Choe, Hae-Cheon;Kim, Sa-Ryang
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.423-431
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    • 2002
  • An experimental study is conducted to investigate the effect of two-frequency forcing on turbulent flow behind a backward-facing step at the Reynolds number of 27000 based on the step height. The forcing is provided from a thin slit located at the edge of the backward-facing step to increase mixing behind the backward-facing step and consequently to reduce the reattachment length. With single frequency forcing, the minimum reattachment length is obtained at the non-dimensional forcing frequency (F) of St$\_$h/ = 0.29. With two-frequency forcing, a subharmonic frequency (F/2) or biharmonic frequency (2F) is combined with the fundamental frequency (F), i.e. (F, F/2) or (F, 2F) forcing is applied. In the case of (F, F/2) forcing, the reattachment length is not much sensitive to the phase difference between F and F/2. However, the reattachment length significantly depends on the phase difference between F and 2F in the case of (F, 2F) forcing. At a certain range of the phase difference, the reattachment length becomes smaller than that of the single frequency forcing.

Developemet of noncontact velocity tracking algorithm for 3-dimensional high speed flows using digital image processing technique (디지털 화상처리를 이용한 유동장의 비접촉 3차원 고속류 계측법의 개발)

  • 도덕희
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.259-269
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    • 1999
  • A new algorithm for measuring 3-D velocity components of high speed flows were developed using a digital image processing technique. The measuring system consists of three CCD cameras an optical instrument called AOM a digital image grabber and a host computer. The images of mov-ing particles arranged spatially on a rotation plate are taken by two or three CCD cameras and are recorderd onto the image grabber or a video tape recoder. The three-dimensionl velocity com-ponents of the particles are automatically obtained by the developed algorithm In order to verify the validity of this technique three-dimensional velocity data sets obtained from a computer simu-lation of a backward facing step flow were used as test data for the algorithm. an uncertainty analysis associated with the present algorithm is systematically evaluated, The present technique is proved to be used as a tookl for the measurement of unsteady three-dimensional fluid flows.

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Influence of Unsteady Wake on Turbulent Separated Flows over a Backward-Facing Step (후향 계단 주위 난류 박리 유동에 대한 비정상 후류의 영향)

  • Chun, Se-Jong;Sung, Hyung-Jin
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.27 no.12
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    • pp.1708-1715
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    • 2003
  • An experimental study was made of turbulent separated and reattaching flow over a backward-facing step, where unsteady wake was generated by a spoked-wheel type wake generator with cylindrical rods in front of the separated flow. The influence of unsteady wake was scrutinized in terms of the rotating speed of the wake generator (0$\leq$S $t_{H}$$\leq$0.4). A conditional averaging technique in corporation with SBF was employed to elucidate the influence of the unsteady wake on the large-scale vortical structures of the separated flow. Special attention was made during two-dimensional measurements of wall-pressure with or without unsteady wake. The wall-pressure fluctuations were used to predict dipole sound source by Curie's integral formula. It was found that the reduction of the dipole sound source was due to the reduction of turbulent kinetic energy by unsteady wake in the recirculation region.n.

Numerical investigation of the recirculation zone formed downstream of a back ward facing step

  • Sarker, Konica;Ali, Mohammad;Cho, Haeng Muk;Mahmud, Md. Iqbal
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.110-114
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    • 2015
  • A numerical investigation has been carried out on recirculation zone formed downstream of a compressible flow over a backward facing step. The study has been performed by solving Two-Dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. The system of governing equations has been solved, using an explicit Harten-Yee Non- MUSCL Modified flux type TVD scheme and a zero-equation algebraic turbulence model to calculate the eddy viscosity coefficient. The recirculation region dimensions are characterized over a range of Mach numbers of fixed step height 5mmThe detail of recirculation zone such as pressure, temperature, recirculation length, strength etc are reported. The variations of these characteristics due to change of Mach number are also presented.