Numerical Comparisons Between URANS and Hybrid RANS/LES at a High Reynolds Number Flow Using Unstructured Meshes

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Numerical Comparisons Between URANS and Hybrid RANS/LES at a High Reynolds Number Flow Using Unstructured Meshes
You, Ju-Yeol; Kwon, Oh-Joon;

Abstract
In the present study, the turbulent flow fields around a circular cylinder at $\small{Re=3.6{\times}10^6}$ were investigated based on an unstructured mesh technique, and the comparisons between URANS(S-A, SST) and hybrid RANS/LES(DES, SAS) methods for the simulation of high Reynolds number flow have been conducted. For this purpose, unsteady characteristics of vortex shedding and time-averaged quantities were compared. A quasi-steady solution-adaptive mesh refinement was also made for the URANS and hybrid RANS/LES approaches. The results showed that the simple changes in the turbulent length scale or source term of turbulent models made the flow fields less dissipative and more realistic in hybrid RANS/LES methods than the URANS approaches.
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English
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