Abstract
Abstract The effectiveness of properly contoured transverse grooves in delaying the flow separation occurring on a two-dimensional boat-tailed bluff body is assessed through numerical simulations. The body has a cross-section with a 3:1 elliptical forebody and a rectangular main part followed by a circular-arc boat tail. Three-dimensional Variational Multiscale Large Eddy Simulations are carried out at R e = D u ∞ ∕ ν = 9 . 6 × 1 0 4 , using a mixed finite-volume/finite-element method. The introduction of one contoured groove on each of the boat-tail lateral surfaces produces a significant delay of flow separation and a consequent increase of the base pressure, with a global drag reduction of the order of 9 . 7 % . The wake dynamical structure remains qualitatively similar to the one typical of blunt-based two-dimensional bodies, with quantitative variations that are consistent with the reduction in wake width caused by boat tailing and by the grooves. The introduction of the grooves leads also to a regularization of the vortex shedding downstream of the body, which is more correlated in the spanwise direction. Finally, a few supplementary simulations show that the effect of the grooves is also robust to the variation of the geometrical parameters defining their location and shape.
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