High-order methods have demonstrated orders of magnitude reduction in com-putational cost for large eddy simulation(LES)over low-order methods in the past decade.Most such simulations are wall-resolved implicit LES(IL...High-order methods have demonstrated orders of magnitude reduction in com-putational cost for large eddy simulation(LES)over low-order methods in the past decade.Most such simulations are wall-resolved implicit LES(ILES)without an explicit sub-grid scale(SGS)model.The use of high-order ILES for severely under-resolved LES such as wall-modeled LES(WMLES)often runs into robustness and accuracy issues due to the low dissipation embedded in these methods.In the present study,we investigate the performance of several popular SGS models,the static Smagorinsky model,the wall-adapting local eddy-viscosity(WALE)model and the Vreman model,to improve the robustness and accuracy of under-resolved LES using high-order methods.The models are implemented in the high-order unstructured grid LES solver called hpMusic based on the discontinuous flux reconstruction method.The length scales in these SGS models are calibrated using the direct numerical simulation(DNS)database for the turbulent channel flow problem.The Vreman model has been found to produce the most accurate and consistent results with a proper choice of the length scale for WMLES.展开更多
基金This material is based upon work supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award Number FA9550-20-1-0315,and GE Research.
文摘High-order methods have demonstrated orders of magnitude reduction in com-putational cost for large eddy simulation(LES)over low-order methods in the past decade.Most such simulations are wall-resolved implicit LES(ILES)without an explicit sub-grid scale(SGS)model.The use of high-order ILES for severely under-resolved LES such as wall-modeled LES(WMLES)often runs into robustness and accuracy issues due to the low dissipation embedded in these methods.In the present study,we investigate the performance of several popular SGS models,the static Smagorinsky model,the wall-adapting local eddy-viscosity(WALE)model and the Vreman model,to improve the robustness and accuracy of under-resolved LES using high-order methods.The models are implemented in the high-order unstructured grid LES solver called hpMusic based on the discontinuous flux reconstruction method.The length scales in these SGS models are calibrated using the direct numerical simulation(DNS)database for the turbulent channel flow problem.The Vreman model has been found to produce the most accurate and consistent results with a proper choice of the length scale for WMLES.
