Tese: Development of Nonlinear Turbulent Models based on Reynolds Average using Objective Tensors
Aluno(a) : Bruno Jorge Macedo dos SantosOrientador(a): Angela Nieckele
Área de Concentração: Termociências
Data: 06/04/2021
Link para tese/dissertação: https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.52960
Resumo: Reynolds Average Navier Stokes (RANS) models are among the most employed models to solve turbulent flows, due to their low computational cost. The majority of RANS models use the Boussinesq approximation, based on a linear relation between the deviatoric part of Reynolds stress tensor and the rate of strain tensor, with the turbulent viscosity as the positive proportionality parameter. However, these models fail in several situations, and a great deal of effort has been made by the scientific community aiming to improve model prediction through the development of non-linear models. Analysis of higher-order models employing objective orthogonal tensors has shown that these are very promising to improve the prediction of the normal components of the Reynolds stress. At the present work, turbulent characteristic velocity and length based on the intensity of the rate of strain tensor were examined, and new wall damping functions were developed presenting very good results. Further, a new one-equation turbulent model based only on the turbulent kinetic energy transport equation was proposed coupled with a new algebraic closure equation to model the turbulent kinetic energy dissipation. Very good results were obtained with the new developed models, when compared with DNS data and with the predictions of previous works.