Direct Numerical Simulations on the three-dimensional wake transition of flows over NACA0012 airfoil at Re = 1000

Direct Numerical Simulations of Three-Dimensional Cavity Flows

Three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of the full compressible Navier–Stokes equations are performed for cavities that are homogeneous in the spanwise direction. The formation of oscillating spanwise structures is observed inside the cavity. We show that this 3D instability arises from a generic centrifugal instability mechanism associated with the mean recirculating vortical flow in t...

outflow Boundary Codition Issues in Direct Numerical Simulation of Three- Dimensional Plane Wake Flow

Direct Numerical Simulation of Flows over an NACA-0012 Airfoil at Low and Moderate Reynolds Numbers

Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of flow over an NACA-0012 airfoil are performed at a low and a moderate Reynolds numbers of Rec=50*10 and 1*10. The angles of attack are 5 and 15 degrees at the low and the moderate Reynolds number cases respectively. The three-dimensional unsteady compressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved using higher order compact schemes. The flow field in the low Rey...

On the Inclusion of Three-dimensional Effects in Simulations of Two-dimensional Bluff-body Wake Flows

Unsteady flow past a circular cylinder at a Reynolds number of 300 has been simulated. The spanwise extent of the computational domain has been systematically varied from zero (2-D) to a large value of 12&, where 4 is the spanwise wavelength of the fundamental mode-B 3-D instability (Williamson, 1996). Simulations with intermediate spanwise extent of 4 and U, have also been performed so as to i...

Direct numerical simulations of three-dimensional flows past obstacles with a vortex penalization method

A vortex method with penalization is proposed in order to simulate three-dimensional incompressible bluff body flows. This approach combines the robustness of vortex methods and the flexibility of penalization methods to impose boundary conditions on the obstacle. Far field boundary conditions are handled in a FFT-based Poisson solver. A validation of the proposed numerical method is carried ou...