Chang, Chi-Yao (2015)
Development and Validation of Scale-resolving Computational Models Relevant to IC-engine Flow Configurations.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication
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Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
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Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | Development and Validation of Scale-resolving Computational Models Relevant to IC-engine Flow Configurations | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Tropea, Prof. C. ; Jakirlic, Prof. S. ; Sadiki, Prof. A. | ||||
Date: | 6 January 2015 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 20 January 2014 | ||||
Abstract: | Turbulent swirling and tumbling flow currents are dominating phenomena in the internal combustion engine systems. These occurrences have great influence on the quality of fuel-air mixture and combustion. Concerning the employment of the CFD (Computation Fluid Dynamics) methods for relevant flow simulations, the LES (Large Eddy Simulation) method is becoming more and more the computational tool in the field of engine design and optimization, thanks to its predictive capability to better estimate the rotational characteristics and cycle-to-cycle variations. This method com- pensates the disadvantages of classical RANS (Reynolds Averaging Navier- Stokes) models of turbulence by resolving the instantaneous flow structures. However, it is accompanied by uncertainties concerning the required mesh resolution. The hybrid eddy-resolving methods, which gain increased popularity in the CFD community, are conceptualized to combine the advantageous characteristics of RANS and LES. This leads to an advanced modeling strategy for complex flow configurations at higher Reynolds numbers. On one hand, the large flow structure is captured in accordance with the applied grid spacing; furthermore, the small structures are computed by an appropriately modified RANS model of turbulence. In the present work, an eddy-resolving model, denoted as ”Very Large Eddy Simulation” (VLES) according to Speziale (1998), is formulated and validated. The validations are preliminary carried out by computing some important generic configurations as decay of homogeneous isotropic turbulence (Tavoularis et al. (1997); underlying the basic turbulence law concerning its natural decay), plane channel flow (Moser et al. (1999); most important representative of wall-bounded flow configurations for studying the near-wall turbulence) and flow over a periodical arrangement of two-dimensional hills (Temmermann et al. (2003); separation at a curved continuous surface) to check the model’s predictive capabilities. Furthermore, a real three-dimensional swirling flow in a vortex tube with different shapes of outlet orifices (investigated experimentally by Grundmann et al.,2012) and a generic piston-cylinder assembly focusing on the compression of a tumbling vortex generated during the intake phase (experiment by Borèe et al., 2001) were computed to examine whether the relevant flow properties can be correctly captured computationally. Finally, an industrial engine system (not accounting for the spray and combustion) for which the experimental reference is provided by Baum et al. (2013) is considered for the final validation to see the suitability of the turbulence models formulated presently for the application in internal combustion engines. Compared to both the Partially Averaged Navier-Stokes (PANS) and RANS methods (the four-equation k-ζ-f model of Hanjalić et al., 2004, was used as the RANS constituent in the present hybrid scheme; in addition the pure LES and RANS computations, the latter employing the same model as the PANS and VLES, have been performed), the present eddy-resolving model exhibits better reproduction of the corresponding reference data. The VLES, which suppresses the modeled turbulent properties to the level of subgrid-scale explicitly by appropriately modifying the turbulent viscosity model, is especially capable of triggering the fluctuation in the entire flow region, whereas PANS shows a too diffusive representation. These features enable the calculation to preserve the LES operating mode in the configurations where the employment of a RANS model is not satisfactory. Furthermore, the VLES method utilizes the currently computed (instantaneous) values without having to extract the averaged properties. This also avoids the problem the PANS method has in the time-dependent calculation of flows with moving boundaries. |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-43150 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 620 Engineering and machine engineering | ||||
Divisions: | 16 Department of Mechanical Engineering > Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics (SLA) | ||||
Date Deposited: | 06 Jan 2015 08:32 | ||||
Last Modified: | 07 Jan 2015 10:57 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/4315 | ||||
PPN: | 386760284 | ||||
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