Abstract
Flow through porous media at low Reynolds numbers has been studied in detail with the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) for applications such as groundwater flow, pollution transport or adsorption processes. In contrast to that, medium to high Reynolds number flow through porous media, which occurs in many areas of industrial engineering, has not yet widely been investigated on a microscopic level by detailed numerical simulations.In this paper, we focus on air flow through a porous medium, because our far goal entails the simulation of acoustic excitations from the turbulent flow leaving the porous medium. We validate the LBM at Reynolds numbers beyond the limit of Darcy's law, and compare the results of direct numerical simulation with those achieved by applying a Smagorinsky-type large eddy turbulence model. For this, we performed flow simulations through a generic (periodic) porous medium at a variety of resolutions to investigate the effect of LES modelling at lower mesh sizes, where the subgrid scale effects become important.
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