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Transition to the ultimate regime in a stochastic model for radiatively driven turbulent convection
(2021)
Transition to the ultimate regime in a stochasticmodel for thermal convection with internal sources
(2021)
It is well established that heat transfer in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection and angular momentum transfer in turbulent Taylor–Couette flow are similar in nature. This similarity manifests itself by isomorphic scaling laws for corresponding flow regimes. However, it is not clear at present if this similarity extends to flows with internal sources and different types of boundary conditions. Internal sources may occur, for example, due to radiative heating in dry or condensation in moist convection, or due to internal wave breaking and mean flow excitation in rotating Taylor–Couette-like flows. In this study, heat transfer in radiatively-driven turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection is investigated using the stochastic one-dimensional-turbulence model (ODT). A Boussinesq fluid of Prandtl number 1 is confined between two horizontal adiabatic no-slip walls that are located at z = 0 and H, respectively. The fluid is exposed to constant background gravity that points in vertical (−z) direction. A flow is driven by radiative heating from below yielding the local heating rate Q(z) = (P/l) exp(−z/l), where P is the prescribed mean total heat flux and l the absorption length that controls the thermal boundary layer thickness. ODT resolves all relevant scales of the flow, including molecular-diffusive scales, along a vertical one-dimensional domain, whereas stochastically sampled eddy events represent the effects of turbulent advection. ODT results reproduce and extrapolate available reference experiments of Lepot et al. (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 115, 2018, pp. 8937–8941) and Bouillaut et al. (J. Fluid Mech., 861, 2019, R5) in particular capturing the turbulent transition from the classical to the ‘ultimate’ regime. For these regimes, the exponent values in N u ∼ Ra^p scaling are found to be p ≈ 0.33 and p ≈ 0.55, respectively, in agreement with measured values. Joint probabilities of turbulent eddy size and location suggest that the regime transition is associated with a suppression of small-scale near-wall turbulent motions. The latter observation is found consistent with recent direct numerical simulations of heat transfer between permeable walls (Kawano et al., J. Fluid Mech., 914, 2021, A13).
One-dimensional turbulence (ODT) modeling is used to investigate the boundary layer in high-Rayleigh-number thermal convection for a notionally infinite horizontal layer of fluid. The model formulation distinguishes between turbulent advection, which is modeled by a stochastic process, and deterministic molecular diffusion to capture relevant vertical transport processes (including counter-gradient fluxes). For this study, statistical homogenization is applied to the two horizontal dimensions so that we use ODT as stand-alone tool. We show that the model yields mean and fluctuation temperature profiles that are in several respects consistent with available reference data. Furthermore, the profile of a surrogate for the fluctuation velocity is reminiscent of canonical wall turbulence.
Using Hips As a New Mixing Model to Study Differential Diffusion of Scalar Mixing in Turbulent Flows
(2021)
Mixing two or more streams is ubiquitous in chemical processes and industries involving turbulent liquid or gaseous flows. Modeling turbulent mixing flows is complicated due to a wide range of time and length scales, and non-linear processes, especially when reaction is involved. On the other hand, in turbulent reacting flows, sub-grid scales need to be resolved accurately because they involve reactive and diffusive transport processes. Transported PDF methods use mixing models to capture the interaction in the sub-grid scales. Several models have been used with varying success. In this study, we present a novel model for simulation of turbulent mixing called Hierarchical Parcel Swapping (HiPS). The HiPS model is a stochastic mixing model that resolves a full range of time and length scales with the reduction in the complexity of modeling turbulent reacting flows. This model can be used as a sub-grid mixing model in PDF transport methods, as well as a standalone model. HiPS can be applied to transported scalars with variable Schmidt numbers to capture the effect of differential diffusion which is important for modeling scalars with low diffusivity like soot. We present an overview of the HiPS model, its formulation for variable Schmidt number flows, and then present results for evaluating the turbulence properties including the scalar energy spectra, the scalar dissipation rate, and Richardson dispersion. These model developments are an important step in applying HiPS to more complex flow configurations.
Turbulent mixing is an omnipresent phenomenon that permanently affects our everyday life. Mixing processes also plays an important role in many industrial applications. The full resolution of all relevant flow scales often poses a major challenge to the numerical simulation and requires a modeling of the small-scale effects. In transported Probability Density Function (PDF) methods, the simplified modeling of the molecular mixing is a known weak point. At this place, the Hierarchical Parcel-Swapping (HiPS) model developed by A.R. Kerstein [J. Stat. Phys. 153, 142-161 (2013)] represents a computationally efficient and novel turbulent mixing model. HiPS simulates the effects of turbulence on time-evolving, diffusive scalar fields. The interpretation of the diffusive scalar fields or a state space as a binary tree structure is an alternative approach compared to existing mixing models. The characteristic feature of HiPS is that every level of the tree corresponds to a specific length and time scale, which
is based on turbulence inertial range scaling. The state variables only reside at the base of the tree and are understood as fluid
parcels. The effects of turbulent advection are represented by stochastic swaps of sub-trees at rates determined by turbulent time
scales associated with the sub-trees. The mixing of adjacent fluid parcels is done at rates consistent with the prevailing diffusion
time scales. In this work, a standalone HiPS model formulation for the simulation of passive scalar mixing is detailed first. The
generated scalar power spectra with forced turbulence shows the known scaling law of Kolmogorov turbulence. Furthermore, results for the PDF of the passive scalar, mean square displacement and scalar dissipation rate are shown and reveal a reasonable agreement with experimental findings. The described possibility to account for variable Schmidt number effects is an important next development step for the HiPS formulation. This enables the incorporation of differential diffusion, which represents an immense advantage compared to the established mixing models. Using a binary structure allows HiPS to satisfy a large number of criteria for a good mixing model. Considering the reduced order and associated computational efficiency, HiPS is an attractive
mixing model, which can contribute to an improved representation of the molecular mixing in transported PDF methods.
The effect of proton, carbon, oxygen and krypton irradiation on AlGaN HFET devices has been studied. Irradiation was performed at 68 and 120 MeV with fluences in the range from 1 × 10^7 to 1 × 10^13 cm2 . Before and after irradiation, dc and pulsed I – V characteristics, loadpull and S -parameters of the AlGaN HFET devices were measured. A thick GaN reference layer was characterized by x-ray diffraction, photoluminescence and Hall measurements before and after irradiation. Proton, carbon and oxygen irradiation show no degradation in devices while krypton irradiation shows a small change at a fluence of 1 × 10 10 cm2 in the device characteristics. The device results are correlated with the thick GaN results.
The one-dimensional turbulence (ODT) model resolves a full range of time and length scales and is computationally efficient. ODT has been applied to a wide range of complex multi-scale flows, such as turbulent combustion. Previous ODT comparisons to experimental data have focused mainly on planar flows. Applications to cylindrical flows, such as round jets, have been based on rough analogies, e.g., by exploiting the fortuitous consistency of the similarity scalings of temporally developing planar jets and spatially developing round jets. To obtain a more systematic treatment, a new formulation of the ODT model in cylindrical and spherical coordinates is presented here. The model is written in terms of a geometric factor so that planar, cylindrical, and spherical configurations are represented in the same way. Temporal and spatial versions of the model are presented. A Lagrangian finite-volume implementation is used with a dynamically adaptive mesh. The adaptive mesh facilitates the implementation of cylindrical and spherical versions of the triplet map, which is used to model turbulent advection (eddy events) in the one-dimensional flow coordinate. In cylindrical and spherical coordinates, geometric stretching of the three triplet map images occurs due to the radial dependence of volume, with the stretching being strongest near the centerline. Two triplet map variants, TMA and TMB, are presented. In TMA, the three map images have the same volume, but different radial segment lengths. In TMB, the three map images have the same radial segment lengths, but different segment volumes. Cylindrical results are presented for temporal pipe flow, a spatial nonreacting jet, and a spatial nonreacting jet flame. These results compare very well to direct numerical simulation for the pipe flow, and to experimental data for the jets. The nonreacting jet treatment overpredicts velocity fluctuations near the centerline, due to the geometric stretching of the triplet maps and its effect on the eddy event rate distribution. TMB performs better than TMA. A hybrid planar-TMB (PTMB) approach is also presented, which further improves the results. TMA, TMB, and PTMB are nearly identical in the pipe flow where the key dynamics occur near the wall away from the centerline. The jet flame illustrates effects of variable density and viscosity, including dilatational effects.
Im Konferenzbeitrag wird auf die Formulierung des stochastischen Modells eingegangen und gezeigt, dass neben Scherspannungen auch Druck-, Coriolis- und Auftriebskräfte berücksichtigt werden können. Das Modell wird beispielhaft als unabhängiges, numerisches Werkzeug angewendet, um fluktuierende Oberflächenflüsse in turbulenten Kanalströmungen sowie stabilen und konvektiven Grenzschichten zu untersuchen. Es werden sowohl glatte, als auch raue bzw. bewachsene (poröse) Oberflächen betrachtet. Anhand neuer Ergebnisse wird demonstriert, dass der Modellansatz in der Lage ist, Referenzdaten zufriedenstellend zu reproduzieren und extrapolieren. Daneben werden aktuelle Arbeiten zur Kopplung des stochastischen Modellansatzes mit Large-Eddy-Simulationen vorgestellt. Es wird gezeigt, dass die stochastische Modellierung oberflächennaher, subgitterskaliger Schwankungen in der Lage ist, wandnahe Turbulenzspektren zu reproduzieren und den filterbasierten Modellfehler bei ansonsten fester Gitterauflösung zu verringern.
One-dimensional turbulence (ODT) is a stochastic simulation in which 3D turbulence effects are captured on a notional 1D line of sight by introducing instantaneous spatial rearrangements (maps) that represent advection by notional turbulent eddies. These eddy events incorporate the possibility of kinetic-energy changes that are equal and opposite to changes of other forms of energy such as the gravitational potential energy change due to a rearrangement of a vertical density profile. This illustrates that motion aligned with an applied force, in this case gravitation g, can be associated with energy change. Using this principle, we 1) present a model of turbulence interaction with the dilatational acceleration caused by thermal expansion in flames and show results for a turbulent counterflow flame with comparison to DNS and 2) present a model for shock-induced turbulence and show results for mixing width
growth in a shock tube with comparison to experiments.
A widely occurring problem in fluid dynamics either in engineering or e.g. hydrology is the turbulent transport through channels and ducts. ODTLES, a stochastic based multi-scale and multi-dimensional model, is a promising tool to describe these flows even including scalar proper- ties like temperature. We are quantifying the ability of ODTLES to describe the heated channel flow with respect to the Prandtl number and the flow through squared ducts with respect to the Reynolds number.
We use ODTLES, a multi-dimensional extension of the One-Dimensional-Turbulence model (ODT). ODT describes turbulent
advection on a 1D sub-domain using a stochastic process for turbulent advection. These 1D sub-domains are coupled to obtain a 3D approach. ODTLES is applied to channel flow. Preliminary results for the pdf of the wall shear stress are compared to DNS.
Primary breakup to form droplets at liquid surfaces is an important fundamental process to study as it determines the initial properties of the dispersed phase, which affect mixing rates, secondary breakup, droplet collisions, and flow separation within the dispersed flow region. Primary breakup can be regarded as one of the least developed model components for simulating and predicting liquid jet breakup. How- ever, it is of paramount importance in many technical applications, e.g. fuel injection in engines and spray painting. This paper presents a numerical investigation of primary breakup of a turbulent liquid jet in still air at standard conditions using the one-dimensional turbulence (ODT) modeling framework. ODT is a stochastic model that simulates turbulent flow evolution along a notional 1D line of sight by applying instantaneous maps to represent the effect of individual turbulent eddies on property profiles. An important feature of ODT is the resolution of all relevant scales, both temporal and spatial. The restriction to one spatial dimension in ODT permits affordable high resolution of interfacial and single-phase property gradients, which is key to capturing the local behavior of the breakup process and allows simulations at high Reynolds and Weber numbers that are currently not accessible to direct numerical simulations (DNS).
This paper summarizes our extensions of the ODT model to simulate geometrically simple jet breakup problems, including representations of Rayleigh wave breakup, turbulent breakup, and shear-driven breakup. Each jet breakup simulation consists of a short temporal channel section to initialize a turbulent velocity profile at the nozzle exit followed by an adjacent jet section. The simulations are carried out for jet exit Reynolds number of 11,500, 23,000, 46,000 and 92,000 while the Weber number is varied within the range 102–107. We present results on breakup statistics including spatial locations of droplet release, droplet sizes and liquid core length. The results on primary breakup are compared to experimental results and models.
In turbulence research and flow applications, turbulence models like RaNS (Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes) models and LES (Large Eddy Simulation) are used. Both models filter the governing flow equations. Thus a scale separation approach is introduced for modeling purposes with the large scales simulated using a numerical scheme while smaller scales are assumed to be less important and might be modeled more or less easily. Unfortunately small scales are frequently of big importance, e.g. in reactive flows, wall bounded flows, or flows with significant Prandtl or Schmidt number effects. Recent alternatives to these standard models are the class of models based on the one-dimensional turbulence (ODT) idea, like ODTLES. The ability of ODT to capture highly turbulent flows (recently up to Reτ=6×105) allows ODTLES to realize 3D resolutions basically independent of the turbulent intensity. In two papers we provide a formal theory and application of an innovative modeling strategy for highly turbulent flows in domains of moderate complexity: In part I (see Glawe et al. (2015)) a new general filtering approach, called XLES (extended LES), is introduced. Contrary to LES, XLES is based on 2D filtering of the governing equations, whereby additional small scale terms are interpreted numerically. In this work a new ansatz for the ODTLES model is introduced as one special approach in the XLES family of models by incorporating the ODT model into XLES. The ODT model introduces microstructures not captured by the XLES filtered equations. To illustrate the ODTLES model capabilities, turbulent channel and duct flows up to friction Reynolds number Reτ=10000 are studied.