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Data from "Collaborative Testing of Turbulence Models"

This web page provides the turbulent flow databases described in Bradshaw, P., Launder, B. E., and Lumley, J. L., "Collaborative Testing of Turbulence Models," Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 118, June 1996, pp. 243-247. The data are provided courtesy of P. Bradshaw of Stanford University. NASA assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of this information; questions should be directed to the originator. See the original description of the library (although note that the description and designation of "disks" no longer applies).

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Incompressible Flow Cases from 1980-81 Data Library

This grouping contains the incompressible-flow cases from the 1980-81 Data Library. The data in the original files are in normalized format, as explained on p. 60 of the 1980-81 Proceedings ("The 1980-81 AFOSR-HTTM Stanford Conference on Complex Turbulent Flows: A Comparison of Computation and Experiment," Volumes I, II, and III, edited by S. J. Kline, B. J. Cantwell, and G. M. Lilley, Stanford University, 1981). The 1980-81 Conference Proceedings also give a full description of the cases. (These cases comprise the contents of the original disk "d1", with the exception of 0411 (Cantwell cylinder), 0441 (Wadcock airfoil), 0511 (Shabaka wing-body junction), 0512 (Humphrey bend), which were too large to fit on the original disk.)

• Case F-0111: Developing Flow in a Square Duct (Po et al)
• Case F-0112: Secondary Currents in the Turbulent Flow Through a Straight Conduit (Hinze)
• Case F-0141: Increasingly Adverse Pressure Gradient Flow (Samuel and Joubert)
• Case F-0142: Six-Degree Conical Diffuser Flow, Low and High Core Turbulence (Pozzorini)
• Case F-0211: Effect of Free Stream Turbulence (Bradshaw and Hancock)
• Case F-0231: Turbulent Boundary Layers on Surfaces of Mild Longitudinal Curvature (Hoffmann and Bradshaw)
• Case F-0233: Turbulent Boundary Layer on a Convex, Curved Surface (Gillis and Johnston)
• Case F-0234: Effects of Small Streamline Curvature on Turbulent Duct Flow (Hunt and Joubert)
• Case F-0235: The Effects of Short Regions of High Surface Curvature on Turbulent Boundary Layers (Convex 30 degrees) (Smits et al)
  • Corrected data for Case F-0235
• Case F-0241: Zero Pressure Gradient Constant Injection (Andersen et al)
• Case F-0242: Adverse Pressure Gradient with Constant Suction (Andersen et al)
• Case F-0244: Zero Pressure Gradient with Constant Suction (Favre et al)
• Case F-0251: NLR Infinite Swept Wing Experiment
• Case F-0252: Part-Rotating Cylinder Experiment (Bissonnette et al)
• Case F-0253: Cylinder on a Flat Test Plate (Dechow and Felsch)
• Case F-0254: Part-Rotating Cylinder (Lohmann)
• Case F-0261: Turbulent Wall Jet Data Collected from Various Sources
• Case F-0311: Planar Mixing Layer Developing from Turbulent Wall Boundary Layers
• Case F-0331: The Turbulence Structure of a Highly Curved Mixing Layer (Castro)
• Case F-0361: The Turbulent Wake of a Body of Revolution (Chevray)
• Case F-0370: Homogeneous Turbulent Flows
• Case F-0381: Measurements of Interacting Turbulent Shear Layers in the Near Wake of an Airfoil (Andreopoulos and Bradshaw)
• Case F-0411: Turbulent Near Wake of a Circular Cylinder at Re = 140000 (Cantwell and Coles) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Case F-0421: Flow Over a Backward Facing Step (Kim et al)
• Case F-0431: Separating Adverse Pressure Gradient Flow (Chew et al)
• Case F-0441: Two-Dimensional Turbulent Separation on a NACA 4412 Airfoil at Max Lift (Wadcock and Coles) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Case F-0471: Trailing-Edge Flows at High Reynolds Number (Viswanath et al)
• Case F-0511: Turbulent Flow in an Idealized Wing-Body Junction (Shabaka) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Case F-0512: Turbulent Flow in a Curved Duct of Square Cross-Section (Humphrey) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Case F-0612: On the Turbulent Friction Layer for Rising Pressure (Wieghardt)

Compressible Flow Cases from 1980-81 Data Library

This grouping contains compressible-flow cases from the 1980-81 Data Library ("The 1980-81 AFOSR-HTTM Stanford Conference on Complex Turbulent Flows: A Comparison of Computation and Experiment," Volumes I, II, and III, edited by S. J. Kline, B. J. Cantwell, and G. M. Lilley, Stanford University, 1981). The 1980-81 Conference Proceedings also give a full description of the cases. (These cases comprise the contents of the original disks "d2" and "d3", with the exception of 8602 (Kooi shock/BL interaction), which was too large to fit on the original disks.)

• Case F-8301: Favorable Pressure Gradient at Supersonic Speeds with Injection (Thomas)
• Case F-8401: Boundary Layer in Adverse Pressure Gradient (Peake et al)
• Case F-8402: Boundary Layer in Adverse Pressure Gradient (Lewis et al)
• Case F-8403: Pressure Gradient and Reynolds No Effects on Compressible Turbulent Boundary Layers in Supersonic Flow (Kussoy et al)
• Case F-8411: Boundary Layer in Adverse Pressure Gradient (Zwarts)
• Case F-8501: Compressibility Effects on Free Shear Layers
• Case F-8601: Normal Shock-Wave/Turbulent Boundary-Layer Interaction at Transonic Speeds (Mateer et al)
• Case F-8602: Influence of Free-Stream Mach Number on Transonic Shock-Wave Boundary Layer Interaction (Kooi) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Case F-8611: Transonic Turbulent Boundary Layer Separation on an Axisymmetric Bump (Bachalo and Johnson)
• Case F-8612: Transonic Flow Over 2-Dimensional Bump (Delery and Le Diuzet)
• Case F-8621: Aerofoil RAE 2822 - Pressure Distributions and Boundary Layer and Wake Measurements (Cook et al)
• Case F-8623: Supercritical Airfoil Boundary Layer Measurements (Spaid and Stivers)
• Case F-8631: Attached and Separated Compression Corner Flowfields in High Reynolds Number Supersonic Flow (Settles et al)
• Case F-8632: Turbulent Boundary-Layer/Expansion Interaction at Supersonic Speed (Dussauge and Gaviglio)
• Case F-8501a: Compressible Mixing Layer (revised case 8500)
• Case F-8641: Reattaching Planar Free Shear Layer (Supersoinc) (Settles et al)
• Case F-8651: Hypersonic Shock Wave Turbulent Boundary Layer Interaction - with and Without Separation (Horstman and Kussoy)
• Case F-8661: Three-Dimensional Swept Shock/Turbulent Boundary Layer Interaction (Peake)
• Case F-8663: Investigation of 3-D Shock Separated Turbulent Boundary Layer (Kussoy et al)
• Case F-8671: Pointed Axisymmetric Bodies at Angle of Attack (Rainbird)
• Case F-8691: Non-Lifting Transonic Airfoil, Shock-Separated Flow (McDevitt et al)

More Recent Incompressible Flow Cases

(These cases comprise the contents of the original disks "d4" and "d6.")

• Kim, Moin, Moser Channel Simulation Data
• Return to Isotropy (Le Penven et al)
• Evolution of Turbulent Stresses and Scales in Uniformly Sheared Turbulence (Tavoularis and Karnik)
• Upward-Flowing Air and Helium Round Jets (Panchapakesan and Lumley)
• Backstep with Roof Angle 0 and 6 Degrees (Driver and Seegmiller)
• Backstep with Roof Angle 0 and 6 Degrees, Auxiliary Data (Driver and Seegmiller)
• Backstep with Roof Angle 0 and 6 Degrees, Opposite Wall Data (Driver and Seegmiller)
• Case F-0141a: Samuel and Joubert - Interpolated Data
• Sink Flow (Spalart) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• 3-D Unsteady Flow, Approximation to Ekman Layer (Spalart)
• 2-D Boundary Layer Relaxation from Convex Curvature (Alving) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Constant-Radius Concave Curvature with Recovery (Johnson) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• One-Dimensional Time-Periodic Boundary Layer Oscillating Flow (Jensen et al) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Normally Impinging Circular Air Jet (Jackson and Launder)
• F-0251a: 35-Deg Yawed Wing (van den Berg et al) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Single-Stream Swirling Jet in Still Air (Morse) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• F-0331a: Two-Dimensional Stably-Curved Mixing Layer (Castro)

More Recent Compressible Flow Cases

(These cases comprise the contents of the original disks "d5.")

• Case 7904: Compression Corners (mean flow for 8701), M=2.9 (Settles) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Case 8701: Compression Corners, M=2.9 (Muck et al) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Case 8601: Adverse Pressure Gradient on Flat Wall, M=2.9 (Fernando and Smits) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Case 8602: Expansion, M=1.72 (Dussauge and Gaviglio) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Case 8603: Zero Pressure Gradient, M=2.9 (Spina and Smits) (tarred and gzipped directory)

Other Cases

(These cases comprise the contents of the original disks "r1" - "r7.")

• Isothermal Dump Combustor with Swirl (Favaloro et al) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• 3D Flow in Wedge-Plate Junction (Anderson and Eaton) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Wake with Turbulent Fluctuations (Antonia and Browne) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Curved Pipe Flow (Anwer et al) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Unsteady Boundary Layer (Brereton et al) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Square-Section Duct (Choi et al) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Transition Duct (Davis and Gessner) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Wing/Body Junction with Separation (Devenport and Simpson) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Natural Convection Boundary Layer (Tsuji and Nagano) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Couette Flow with Fixed Wavy Wall (Nakabayashi et al) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Airfoil Boundary Layer and Wake (Nakayama) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Boundary Layer Turbulence Structure in the Presence of Embedded Streamwise Vortex Pairs (Pauley and Eaton) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Sudden Pipe Expansion (Szczepura)
• Nearly Homogeneous Curved Shear Flow (Holloway and Tavoularis) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Transitional Cascade Blade (Zierke and Deutsch) (tarred and gzipped directory)
• Bursting Vortices Over Moderately Swept Delta Wings (Kegelman and Roos) (tarred and gzipped directory)

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