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2D Airfoil Near-Wake Validation Case

Wilcox2006-klim-m Model Results
 

Link to Wilcox2006-klim-m equations

Wilcox2006-klim-m - u-velocities in wake Wilcox2006-klim-m - specific turbulent shear stresses in wake

Previously on this page the results were reported as Wilcox2006-klim solutions, but more properly they should be referred to as Wilcox2006-klim-m. Essentially no difference is expected.

Note that thorough grid studies were not performed for validation cases such as this one. Some effort was made to ensure reasonable grid resolutions, but there may still be small noticeable discretization errors. Therefore, these validation results shown should be considered representative, but not "truth." (See VERIF/2DANW for a verification version of this airfoil case.)

IMPORTANT NOTE: This validation case uses grids that only extend 20c from the airfoil. It was later discovered that this farfield grid extent is too small for verification purposes. Therefore, any results using only 20c grid extent should be viewed WITH CAUTION. The verification case using 500c grid extent can be found at the link above.

Wilcox2006-klim-m results are shown for CFL3D and FUN3D on the second-finest grid (1121x193). Both CFL3D and FUN3D used freestream turbulence intensity=0.088% and freestream turbulent viscosity (relative to laminar)=0.009 (additional details can be found in the CFL3D User's Manual, Appendix H). Please read note 5 on Notes on running CFD page. Results between the two codes are nearly identical. (On this grid level, CL=0.1615 and CD=0.01058 for CFL3D, and CL=0.1592 and CD=0.01053 for FUN3D.) Note that these are compressible code results at "essentially incompressible" conditions of M=0.088. There may be a very small influence of compressibility. The data files from CFL3D are given here: nak_cfl3d_vel_w06.dat, nak_cfl3d_uv_w06.dat, (Note: the profiles have been interpolated using Tecplot software onto pre-set points, that may or may not correspond to the actual grid points or grid cells used in the computation.) A typical CFL3D input file is: nak_cfl3d_typical_w06.inp. A typical FUN3D input file is: fun3d.nml_typical_w06_2.

Note that this model is currently assigned MRR Level 2 for the purposes of this website. This is because at this time the TMBWG has results for this model from two different codes from the same home organization. The results on this page are therefore not necessarily reliable until additional independent code(s) can be used to verify the model implementation.


 
 

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