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2D Mixing Layer Validation Case

SSG/LRR-RSM-w2012 Model Results
 

Link to SSG/LRR-RSM-w2012 equations

SSG/LRR-RSM-w2012 - u velocity at x=200mm SSG/LRR-RSM-w2012 - specific turbulent shear stress at x=200mm

SSG/LRR-RSM-w2012 - u velocity at x=650mm SSG/LRR-RSM-w2012 - specific turbulent shear stress at x=650mm

SSG/LRR-RSM-w2012 - u velocity at x=950mm SSG/LRR-RSM-w2012 - specific turbulent shear stress at x=950mm

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."

The plots shown compare the SSG/LRR-RSM-w2012 results from two independent CFD codes: CFL3D and FUN3D, with the experimental data at three x-locations of 200mm, 650mm, and 950mm. Both CFL3D and FUN3D used freestream turbulence intensity=0.064% 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. These results are from the second-finest grid (369x369, 89x161, 121x161). Results on the finest grid look the same to plotting accuracy. The y value is normalized by the vorticity thickness (from experiment), the U velocity is normalized by the lower-stream U velocity as well as the change in the U velocity between lower and upper streams. The specific turbulent shear stress is normalized by the square of the change in U velocity. Note that these are compressible code results at "essentially incompressible" conditions of M=0.121108. There may be a very small influence of compressibility. The data files from CFL3D are given here: mixinglayer_cfl3d_u_ssglrrrsm.dat, mixinglayer_cfl3d_uv_ssglrrrsm.dat. (Note: some of 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: delville_cfl3d_typical_ssglrrrsm.inp. A typical FUN3D input file is: fun3d.nml_typical_ssglrr_2.


 
 

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