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Vorticity Confinement method applied to flow around an Ahmed body and comparison with experiments

FORMAN, M. JASAK, H. VOLAVÝ, J. JÍCHA, M. OTHMER, C. BENSLER, H. P.

Czech title

Metoda Vorticity Confinment aplikovaná na proudění okolo Ahmedova tělesa a porovnání s experimenty

English title

Vorticity Confinement method applied to flow around an Ahmed body and comparison with experiments

Type

journal article - other

Language

en

Original abstract

In the paper, Vorticity Confinement method (VC) is presented for the calculation of flow field around a bluff body. VC method was originally proposed by Steinhoff et al. for the computation of thin vortical regions in the high Reynolds number incompressible flows. Steinhoff claims that VC is capable of capturing most of the main features of high-Re turbulent flows without the massive mesh resolution needed for Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) solutions or Large Eddy Simulation (LES). The aim of the method is to capture small-scale vortical structures efficiently. The presented study assesses the VC method, for external aerodynamics presented here on a well documented simplified car – Ahmed bluff body with different slant angles, namely 25 and 35 deg.

Czech abstract

V článku je prezentována metoda Vorticity Confinement pro výpočet proudového pole okoloo Ahmedova tělesa. Metoda VC byla původně navržena Steinhoffem et al. pro výpočet tenké vírové oblasti při vysokých Re číslech v nestlačitelném proudění. Steinhoff tvrdí, že VC je schopna zachytit většinu hlavních rysů turbulentního proudění s vysokými Re čísly bez masivního zvětšení sítě, potřebné pro RANS nebo LES řešení. Cíl metody je účinně zachytit vírové struktury malých měřítek. Prezentovaná studie hodnotí VC metodu pro vnější obtékání Ahmedova tělesa (zjednodušený tvar automobilu) pro dva různé úhly sklonu 25 a 35 stupňů.

English abstract

In the paper, Vorticity Confinement method (VC) is presented for the calculation of flow field around a bluff body. VC method was originally proposed by Steinhoff et al. for the computation of thin vortical regions in the high Reynolds number incompressible flows. Steinhoff claims that VC is capable of capturing most of the main features of high-Re turbulent flows without the massive mesh resolution needed for Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) solutions or Large Eddy Simulation (LES). The aim of the method is to capture small-scale vortical structures efficiently. The presented study assesses the VC method, for external aerodynamics presented here on a well documented simplified car – Ahmed bluff body with different slant angles, namely 25 and 35 deg.

Keywords in Czech

Turbulentní proudění, Vorticity confinement, Ahmedovo těleso, experimenty

Keywords in English

Turbulent flow, Vorticity confinement, Ahmed body, experiments

RIV year

2010

Released

15.09.2010

Publisher

WIT Press

Location

Ashurst, UK

ISSN

1743-3533

Volume

69

Number

9

Pages from–to

55–66

Pages count

11

BIBTEX


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  author="Matěj {Forman} and Jaroslav {Volavý} and Miroslav {Jícha} and Carsten {Othmer} and Henry Paul {Bensler},
  title="Vorticity Confinement method applied to flow around an Ahmed body and comparison with experiments",
  year="2010",
  volume="69",
  number="9",
  month="September",
  pages="55--66",
  publisher="WIT Press",
  address="Ashurst, UK",
  issn="1743-3533"
}