TURBULENCE MODELS APPLIED TO CLASSICAL FLUID MECHANICS AND HEAT TRANSFER PROBLEMS - THE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF THE OPEN SOURCE CFD PACKAGE OPENFOAM
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https://doi.org/10.47820/acertte.v1i5.39Keywords:
Turbulence modeling, RANS, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), heat transfer, finite volume method, OpenFOAMAbstract
Topics related to the modeling of turbulent flow feature significant relevance in several areas, especially in engineering, since the vast majority of flows present in the design of devices and systems are characterized to be turbulent. A vastly applied tool for the analysis of such flows is the use of numerical simulations based on turbulence models. Thus, this work aims to evaluate the performance of several turbulence models when applied to classic problems of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, already extensively validated by empirical procedures. The OpenFOAM open source software was used, being highly suitable for obtaining numerical solutions to problems of fluid mechanics involving complex geometries. The problems for the evaluation of turbulence models selected were: two-dimensional cavity, Pitz-Daily, air flow over an airfoil, air flow over the Ahmed blunt body and the problem of natural convection between parallel plates. The solution to such problems was achieved by utilizing several Reynolds Averaged Equations (RANS) turbulence models, namely: k-ε, k-ω, Lam-Bremhorst k-ε, k-ω SST, Lien-Leschziner k-ε, Spalart-Allmaras, Launder-Sharma k-ε, renormalization group (RNG) k-ε. The results obtained were compared to those found in the literature which were empirically obtained, thus allowing the assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the turbulence modeling applied in each problem.
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