Turbulent Flow Around a Wavy Interface Between a Porous Medium and a Clear Domain

Flow over forests and vegetation can be characterized by some sort of porous structure of irregular surface through which a fluid permeates. Also, in engineering systems one can have components that make use of a working fluid flowing over irregular layers of porous material. This paper presents numerical solutions for such hybrid medium, considering here a channel partially filled with a sinusoidal porous layer saturated by a fluid flowing in turbulent regime. One unique set of transport equations is applied to both regions. Effects of Reynolds number, porosity and permeability on mean and turbulence fields are investigated. Results indicate that around the peaks of the sinusoidal layer values of the turbulent kinetic energy are higher.