Assessment of a hybrid finite element and finite volume code for turbulent incompressible flows

Xia, Yidong; Wang, Chuanjin; Luo, Hong; Christon, Mark; Bakosi, Jozsef

doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2015.12.022

Title: Assessment of a hybrid finite element and finite volume code for turbulent incompressible flows

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Hydra-TH is a hybrid finite-element/finite-volume incompressible/low-Mach flow simulation code based on the Hydra multiphysics toolkit being developed and used for thermal-hydraulics applications. In the present work, a suite of verification and validation (V&V) test problems for Hydra-TH was defined to meet the design requirements of the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL). The intent for this test problem suite is to provide baseline comparison data that demonstrates the performance of the Hydra-TH solution methods. The simulation problems vary in complexity from laminar to turbulent flows. A set of RANS and LES turbulence models were used in the simulation of four classical test problems. Numerical results obtained by Hydra-TH agreed well with either the available analytical solution or experimental data, indicating the verified and validated implementation of these turbulence models in Hydra-TH. Where possible, we have attempted some form of solution verification to identify sensitivities in the solution methods, and to suggest best practices when using the Hydra-TH code.

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^[1]; Wang, Chuanjin ^[2]; Luo, Hong ^[2]; Christon, Mark ^[3];

^[3]

Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Publication Date:: Tue Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2015

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1240388

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1359293

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-14-28494
Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9991; PII: S0021999115008414

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; AC52-06NA25396

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of Computational Physics

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 307; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9991

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; Hydra-TH; incompressible flows; turbulence models; Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes; large-eddy simulation

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                    Xia, Yidong, Wang, Chuanjin, Luo, Hong, Christon, Mark, and Bakosi, Jozsef. Assessment of a hybrid finite element and finite volume code for turbulent incompressible flows.  United States: N. p., 2015. 
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                    Xia, Yidong, Wang, Chuanjin, Luo, Hong, Christon, Mark, & Bakosi, Jozsef. Assessment of a hybrid finite element and finite volume code for turbulent incompressible flows.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2015.12.022

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                    Xia, Yidong, Wang, Chuanjin, Luo, Hong, Christon, Mark, and Bakosi, Jozsef. Tue .  
"Assessment of a hybrid finite element and finite volume code for turbulent incompressible flows".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2015.12.022.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1240388.

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  title        = {Assessment of a hybrid finite element and finite volume code for turbulent incompressible flows},

  author       = {Xia, Yidong and Wang, Chuanjin and Luo, Hong and Christon, Mark and Bakosi, Jozsef},

  abstractNote = {Hydra-TH is a hybrid finite-element/finite-volume incompressible/low-Mach flow simulation code based on the Hydra multiphysics toolkit being developed and used for thermal-hydraulics applications. In the present work, a suite of verification and validation (V&V) test problems for Hydra-TH was defined to meet the design requirements of the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL). The intent for this test problem suite is to provide baseline comparison data that demonstrates the performance of the Hydra-TH solution methods. The simulation problems vary in complexity from laminar to turbulent flows. A set of RANS and LES turbulence models were used in the simulation of four classical test problems. Numerical results obtained by Hydra-TH agreed well with either the available analytical solution or experimental data, indicating the verified and validated implementation of these turbulence models in Hydra-TH. Where possible, we have attempted some form of solution verification to identify sensitivities in the solution methods, and to suggest best practices when using the Hydra-TH code.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.jcp.2015.12.022},

  journal      = {Journal of Computational Physics},

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  volume       = 307,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Tue Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2015},

  month        = {Tue Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2015}

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