ATTACHED, wall-bounded flows impose computational requirements on LES that increase drastically with Reynolds number. For that reason, even simple geometries, such as airfoils at small angles of attack, with spanwise uniform section shape, challenge the bounds of LES as chord-based Reynolds numbers increase much above 1 million. Of particular concern is the ability of LES to predict the occurrence, and strength of, weak vortex shedding from the airfoil trailing edge (by weak vortex shedding we mean that the acoustic vortex shedding signature may rise only a few decibels above that for the broadband turbulent boundary layer acoustic sources). Correct prediction of weak vortex shedding may depend on accurately predicting the flow over the entire airfoil that includes the attached, turbulent upstream flow, adverse pressure gradient and separated flow regions and finally, the turbulent wake. This paper compares results of two full-LES and two LES with wall-stress model for the flow about a modified NACA 0016 airfoil with a 41° trailing edge apex angle and a slightly convex pressure side. Comparisons of vortex shedding, as measured by the power spectral density (PSD) of wall pressure fluctuations (WPF) on the pressure side of the TE and the PSD of the vertical velocity fluctuations in the wake are made. The results indicate that vortex shedding predictions are dependent upon the stream-wise and spanwise grid resolution. In order to reduce the large computational times required for simulating the high-Reynolds number flows with fully-resolved LES, a wall-stress model that solves the turbulent boundary layer equations in the near-wall region is applied. Compared with the fully-resolved LES, the LES with wall-stress simulations require about 20 percent the number of grid points and require about 10 percent of the computational time. However, the LES with wall stress model results under-predict the vortex shedding peak in the wake and are not able to predict the vortex shedding signature in TE wall pressure spectra. These results indicate that near-wall turbulence structures need to be resolved in order to correctly predict the occurence and strength of vortex shedding.
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ASME 2006 2nd Joint U.S.-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting Collocated With the 14th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering
July 17–20, 2006
Miami, Florida, USA
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Peter A. Chang, III,
Peter A. Chang, III
Naval Surface Warfare Center, West Bethesda, MD
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Meng Wang,
Meng Wang
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
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Jonathan Gershfeld
Jonathan Gershfeld
Naval Surface Warfare Center, West Bethesda, MD
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Peter A. Chang, III
Naval Surface Warfare Center, West Bethesda, MD
Meng Wang
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Jonathan Gershfeld
Naval Surface Warfare Center, West Bethesda, MD
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FEDSM2006-98432, pp. 1267-1281; 15 pages
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September 5, 2008
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Chang, PA, III, Wang, M, & Gershfeld, J. "Prediction of Vortex Shedding From a High Reynolds Number Airfoil Using LES With and Without Wall Model." Proceedings of the ASME 2006 2nd Joint U.S.-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting Collocated With the 14th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. Volume 1: Symposia, Parts A and B. Miami, Florida, USA. July 17–20, 2006. pp. 1267-1281. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/FEDSM2006-98432
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