RANS-based numerical simulation of shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction induced by a blunted fin normal to a flat plate

Abstract

Results of refined RANS-based numerical simulation of shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction induced by a blunted fin mounted on a flat plate are presented. The RANS equations for compressible viscous gas flow closed by a (varied) eddy-viscosity turbulence model were solved using the finite volume method implemented in the unstructured-grid parallelized in-house code SINF/Flag-S developed at the SPbPU. Detailed numerical data concerning time-averaged characteristics of the separation region and the shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction are acquired, including identification of the horse-shoe vortices and their influence on the pressure and shear stress distributions on the streamlined surfaces. A thorough comparison with measurements presented in literature were conducted. Methodical data on the influence of grid resolution and turbulence model on the predicted structure of the viscous-inviscid interaction are obtained and recommendations for achieving a high-quality resolution of the viscous effects and the complex shock-wave pattern of the flow are worked out.