The Finite Element Method for Fluid Dynamics, Sixth Edition

Appendix I: Mass-Weighted Averaged Turbulence Transport Equations

I.1 Turbulence models

In this subsection we provide two turbulence models commonly employed in the compressible flow calculations. Before discussing these models we write the Reynolds stress term and turbulent heat flux term in terms of turbulent eddy viscosity as


and


One of the following turbulence models may be employed to calculate the turbulent viscosity.

Spalart-Allmaras model

In this model the turbulent eddy viscosity is calculated as


where


with


The viscosity variable is calculated from


The parameters used in the above equation are written as


where y is the distance from a given node to the nearest wall, is the vorticity given as


is the difference in velocity between the point and trip, y t is distance from a node to a trip point or curve, is the vorticity magnitude at trip point or curve, ? x is the surface grid spacing at trip. Other constants used in the model are c b1 = 0.1355, c b2 = 0.622, ? = 2/3, K = 0.41, c w1 = c b1/ K 2 + (1 + c b2)/ ?, c w2 = 0.3, c w3 = 2, c v1 = 7.1, c t2 = 2, c t3

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