Employment of second‐moment closure for calculation of turbulent recirculating flows in complex geometries with collocated variable arrangement

Abstract

AbstractThis paper addresses the implementation of second‐moment closure into a collocated variable arrangement body‐fitted‐finite‐volume scheme in which Cartesian velocity components are used. The methods for avoiding instability in the solution procedure are described. A new method for the treatment of the near‐wall regions for the momentum equations, as well as the prescription of the stresses at the wall, is described in detail. The performance of the methodology is assessed by applying it to two flow situations, where experimental data are available: the flow over a backward step, and the flow through a sinusoidal pipe constriction. The results are very promising.