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A three-day course Large Eddy Simulation (LES), hybrid LES-RANS, Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) and unsteady RANS. |
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LES is suitable for bluff-body flows or flows at low Reynolds numbers. To extend LES to cover industrial flows at high Reynolds numbers, new approaches (hybrid LES-RANS, DES, URANS, PANS) must be used. They are all based on a mix of LES and RANS. The course will give an introduction to LES and these new methods. LES, or any of the new approaches, is the first step when performing accurate CAA (Computational Aero-Acoustics) Lectures will be given in the mornings; in the afternoons there will be workshops using Matlab on PC Workstations. Day 3 ANSYS Sweden will give a two-hour presentation of the Fluent code. In the afternoon, during the workshop session, the participants can either choose to use Fluent or to use Matlab generating synthetic inlet turbulent boundary conditions. The number of participants is limited to 18. |
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BACKGROUND  The development of computers and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has made the numerical simulation of complex fluid flow, combustion, aero-acoustics and heat transfer problems possible. Turbulent flow in three-dimensional, complex geometries -- unsteady or steady -- can be dealt with. Presently CFD methods can replace, or complement, many experimental methods; we can use a numerical wind tunnel instead of an experimental one. Today, most CFD simulations are carried out with traditional RANS (Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes). In RANS, we split the flow variables into one time-averaged (mean) part and one turbulent part. The latter is modelled with a turbulence model such as k-eps or Reynolds Stress Model. For many flows it is not appropriate to use RANS, since the turbulent part can be very large and of the same order as the mean. Examples are unsteady flow in general, wake flows or flows with large separation. For this type of flows, it is more appropriate to use Large Eddy Simulation (LES). In order to extend LES to high Reynolds number flows new methods have recently been developed. These are called DES (Detached Eddy Simulation), URANS (Unsteady RANS), PANS (Partially Averaged Navier-Stokes) or Hybrid LES-RANS. They are all unsteady methods and they are a mixture of LES and RANS. In aero-acoustics the noise is generated by turbulence. The best way to accurately predict large-scale turbulence is to carry out an unsteady simulation of the flow field (i.e. LES, DES, hybrid LES-RANS or URANS). After that the noise is predicted separately in CAA (Computational Aero-Acoustics) in which the large-scale turbulence is included, either in analogy methods (the Lighthill analogy) or in Linear-Euler methods. In LES, DES, URANS and Hybrid LES-RANS the large-scale part of the turbulence is solved for by the discretized equations whereas the small-scale turbulence is modelled. The definition of ''large-scale'' varies in the different methods. Furthermore, the limit between ''large-scale'' and ''small-scale' is often not well defined. Since turbulence is three-dimensional and unsteady, it means that in all the methods the simulations must always be carried out as 3D, unsteady simulations. 
THE COURSE The course will give an introduction to LES, DES, hybrid LES-RANS and unsteady RANS. During the lectures we will discuss the theory and during the workshops we will use simple Matlab programs to gain detailed insight in various numerical and modelling aspects. There will be a PC workstation for each participant at the workshops. The number of participant is limited to 18 We will address questions like:
Inlet boundary conditions are much more difficult in LES and hybrid LES-RANS than in RANS. In RANS it is sufficient to prescribe time-averaged profiles. In LES and hybrid LES-RANS unsteady, turbulent fluctuations must be supplied. One alternative is to do a pre-cursor DNS and store data at a cross-sectional plane on disc which can be read in the subsequent LES or hybrid LES-RANS simulation. Another alternative is to use synthesized turbulence. The participants will during the last workshop (Day 3) have the opportunity to learn how to to create synthesized turbulence using Matlab. During the last day the commercial CFD package Fluent will be presented and demonstrated by ANSYS Sweden. At the workshop the participants will have the opportunity to work with Fluent and get some practice. Participants who already know Fluent may instead choose to learn how to create synthesized turbulence using Matlab (see above).
OBJECT The participants will be given an introduction to LES, DES, hybrid LES-RANS and unsteady RANS. We expect many participants to be first-year PhD students or users of in-house CFD codes or commercial CFD packages for traditional RANS simulations. This course will give the required knowledge to do CFD predictions using also unsteady methods.
PARTICIPANTS We believe that the course will be useful for engineers and PhD students working with problems including pure fluid flow, aero-acoustics, combustion and heat transfer in industry as well as at universities. The number of participants is limited to 18.
LECTURERS The lecturer at the course (both during lectures and workshops) will be Prof. Lars Davidson from the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Dept of Applied Mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology. Fredrik Carlsson from FS Dynamics will give the presentation of ANSYS Fluent.
COURSE MATERIAL
COURSE LANGUAGE The course material is in English and the lectures will be given in English.
LOCATION The course will be held 18-20 October, 2010, at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg.
REGISTRATION Registration form should be submitted no later than October 1, 2010, to Ulla Rönnbeck CIT Thermoflow AB Chalmers Teknikpark SE-412 96 Göteborg SWEDEN The price is 14,700 SEK (excl. VAT) which includes course material, lunches, course dinner, coffee. For PhD students the fee is reduced to 10,400 SEK (excl. VAT). Upon cancellation before September 26, 50% of the payment is refunded. No refunding after September 26. The number of participants is limited to 18.
QUESTIONS & FURTHER INFORMATION Please contact Lars Davidson tel. +46 (0) 31-772 14 04, E-mail: lada@chalmers.se or Ulla Rönnbeck, tel. +46 (0) 31-772 40 21 E-mail:ulla.ronbeck@cit.chalmers.se
PROGRAM DAY 1 (10.00 -- 20.00)
DAY 3 (8.00 -- 17.00)
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QLES 2009