Investigations on high-fidelity low-dissipation scheme for unsteady turbulent separated flows

Abstract

Unsteady turbulent separated flow widely exists in aerospace vehicles and has become a major research topic. For the precise turbulent flow prediction, efficient and accurate numerical methods are the premise and foundation. However, most shock-capturing schemes designed for compressible flows have some difficulties in low-speed flow regions, and reduce the reliability when simulating unsteady turbulent separated flow with rich low Mach number features. Thus, the paper proposes a high-fidelity low-dissipation scheme termed LD-Roe2 and investigates the performances of the novel approach in unsteady turbulent separated flow simulations using the Hybrid Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations/Large Eddy Simulation Approach (Spalart-Allmaras Delayed Detached Eddy Simulation). Numerical results including flow over a circular cylinder at subcritical Reynolds number and flow over tandem cylinders, demonstrate that the novel low-dissipation scheme can better simulate the unsteady separated flow and depicts finer smaller-scale vortical structures compared with traditional numerical schemes. It is expected to provide a more accurate and applicable numerical solution for the refined turbulent prediction.