AN ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR A TWO-EQUATION TURBULENCE MODEL IN WALL-BOUNDED FLOWS
✍ Scribed by F. Ilinca; D. Pelletier; A. Garon
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 590 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-2091
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✦ Synopsis
This paper presents an adaptive finite element method for solving incompressible turbulent flows using a k-e model of turbulence. Solutions are obtained in primitive variables using a highly accurate quadratic finite element on unstructured grids. A projection error estimator is presented that takes into account the relative importance of the errors in velocity, pressure and turbulence variables. The efficiency and convergence rate of the methodology are evaluated by solving problems with known analytical solutions. The method is then applied to turbulent flow over a backward-facing step and predictions are compared with experimental measurements.