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Numerical prediction of a turbulent curved wake and comparison with experimental data
Author(s) -
MokhtarzadehDehghan M. R.,
Piradeepan N.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in fluids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1097-0363
pISSN - 0271-2091
DOI - 10.1002/fld.1107
Subject(s) - wake , airfoil , turbulence , reynolds stress , mechanics , naca airfoil , chord (peer to peer) , reynolds number , computational fluid dynamics , physics , curvature , trailing edge , geometry , mathematics , computer science , distributed computing
Numerical studies of the curved wake of a NACA 0012 airfoil of chord length 0.150 m are presented. The airfoil is placed in air at 10 m/s in the straight section of a duct of 0.457 m × 0.457 m cross‐section followed by a 90° bend with a mean radius‐to‐height ratio of 1.17. The trailing edge is located at one chord length upstream of the bend entry plane. The authors' own measurements are used to define the boundary conditions and for comparison with the predicted results. The numerical models are based on the time‐averaged, three‐dimensional conservation equations of fluid flow, incorporating the k –ε, RNG k –ε, realizable k –ε and the Reynolds stress turbulence models. The results show that the models are capable of predicting the effects of curvature on the wake development. However, quantitative differences between prediction and experiment exist. The results obtained using the Reynolds stress model show better agreement with the experimental data, compared with the k –ε based models, but not consistently for all parameters. There are also better predictions by the RNG k –ε and realizable k –ε models compared with the standard k –ε model. The predicted results using the RNG k –ε are closer to experimental data than the realizable k –ε. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.