Experimental investigation of flow over a backward-facing step in proximity to a flexible wall

Velikorodny, Alexey; Duck, Graham; Oshkai, Peter

doi:10.1007/s00348-010-0822-3

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“…Driver and Seegmiller (1985) and Xingkui and Fontijn (1993) experimentally studied the hydrodynamic forces on the open channel with backward facing step. Furthermore, Armaly et al (1983), Kasagi and Matsunaga (1995), Velikorodny et al (2010), Wu et al (2013) and Nguyen and Souad (2015) used three-dimensional (3D) particle-tracking velocimetry to investigate and measure the turbulence and energy in a backward facing step flow in channel. On the other hand, Kherbeet et al (2015) experimentally investigated the effects of laminar nanofluid flow over the microscale backward facing step and forward facing step on heat transfer characteristics.…”

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Numerical study of the flow field characteristics over a backward facing step using k-kl-ω turbulence model: comparison with different models

Ahmed

Elbatran

2018

WJE

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate numerically the turbulent flow characteristics over a backward facing step. Different turbulence models with hybrid computational grid have been used to study the detached flow structure in this case. Comparison between the numerical results and the available experiment data is carried out in the present study. The results of the different turbulence models were in a good agreement with the experimental results. The numerical results also concluded that the k-kl-ω turbulence model gave favorable results compared with the experiment. Design/methodology/approach It is very important to study the flow characteristics of detached flows. Therefore, the current study investigates numerically the flow characteristics in backward facing step by using two-, three- and seven-equation turbulence models in the finite volume code ANSYS Fluent. In addition, hybrid grid has been used to improve the capability of the unstructured mesh elements for predicting the flow separation in this case. Comparison between the different turbulence models and the available experimental data was done to find the most suitable turbulence model for simulating such cases of detached flows. Findings The present numerical simulations with the different turbulence models predicted efficiently the flow characteristics over the backward facing step. The transition k-kl-ω gave the best acceptable results compared with experimental data. This is a good concluded remark in the fields of fluid mechanics and hydrodynamics because the phenomenon of flow separation is not easy to be predicted numerically and can affect greatly on the predicted drag of moving bodies in many engineering applications. Originality/value The CFD results of using different turbulence models have been validated with the experimental work, and the results of k-kl-ω proven acceptable with flow characteristics. The results of the current study conclude that the use of k-kl-ω turbulence model will contribute towards a more efficient utilization in the fields of fluid mechanics and hydrodynamics.

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