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Example: Turbulent flow around a cylinder

Turbulent flow around a cylinder

Flow around a cylinder


Free flow around a cylinder. Inlet velocity, Uin = 1.5 m/s. Cylinder diameter, d = 0.2 m. Air at ambient temperature, =1.510-5 m2/s. Reynolds number,

U d Re in 20000. d

Turbulence intensity at the inlet of 2%.

Wall functions

Uin, k and specified

Turbulent flow around a cylinder

Numerical considerations
900 nodes (1672 elements). Iterative solution process requires approx. 60 MB memory.

Stabilization techniques:
Second order artificial diffusion and first order streamline diffusion for the k and equations. First order streamline diffusion for the momentum equations.

Turbulent flow around a cylinder - Results

Results
Point of seperation shows qualitative good agreement with literature. (120 from the impingement point). Values of Cp seem to correlate well with experimental data.

The results are easily visualised with the postprocessing functionality built into COMSOL Multiphysics.

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