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2D NASA Wall-Mounted Hump Separated Flow Validation Case (no plenum)

SSTm Model Results
 

Link to SSTm equations

Note this case can also be run on grids WITH a plenum; see: 2D NASA Wall-Mounted Hump Separated Flow Validation Case SSTm page.

SSTm - surface pressure coefficients SSTm - surface skin friction coefficients

SSTm - u-velocity upstream at x/c=-2.14 SSTm - u-velocities at several locations

SSTm - u'v' at x/c=0.65 SSTm - u'v' at several locations SSTm - u-velocities and streamlines (CFL3D)

Previously on this page the results were reported as SST solutions, but more properly they should be referred to as SSTm. 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."

The plots shown compare the SSTm results from two independent CFD codes: CFL3D and FUN3D, along with experimental data, using grids with no plenum included (results with or without plenum are very similar for this case). The CFD codes predict the flow separation to occur near x/c = 0.654 and reattachment near x/c = 1.25-1.27 (in experiment these were 0.665 and 1.1, respectively). Both CFL3D and FUN3D used freestream turbulence intensity=0.077% 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 (817 x 217). Both codes gave results that were reasonably close on this grid. Note that these are compressible code results at "essentially incompressible" conditions of M=0.1. There may be a very small influence of compressibility. Also note that the CFD's reference pressure is different from the experiment (to attain the same reference dynamic pressure); so a shift is necessary to align the Cp levels. The data files from CFL3D are given here: nasahump_cfl3d_cp_noplenum_sst.dat, nasahump_cfl3d_cf_noplenum_sst.dat, nasahump_cfl3d_vel_noplenum_sst.dat, nasahump_cfl3d_uv_noplenum_sst.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: nasahump_cfl3d_typical_noplenum_sst.inp. A typical FUN3D input file is: fun3d.nml_typical_hump_sst.


 
 

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