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Vorticity Confinement method applied to flow around an Ahmed body and comparison with experiments

FORMAN, M. JASAK, H. VOLAVÝ, J. JÍCHA, M. OTHMER, C. BENSLER, H. P.

Original Title

Vorticity Confinement method applied to flow around an Ahmed body and comparison with experiments

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

In the paper, Vorticity Confinement method (VC) is presented for the calculation of flow field around a bluff body. VC method was originally proposed by Steinhoff et al. for the computation of thin vortical regions in the high Reynolds number incompressible flows. Steinhoff claims that VC is capable of capturing most of the main features of high-Re turbulent flows without the massive mesh resolution needed for Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) solutions or Large Eddy Simulation (LES). The aim of the method is to capture small-scale vortical structures efficiently. The presented study assesses the VC method, for external aerodynamics presented here on a well documented simplified car - Ahmed bluff body with different slant angles, namely 25 and 35 deg.

Keywords

Turbulent flow, Vorticity confinement, Ahmed body, experiments

Authors

FORMAN, M.; JASAK, H.; VOLAVÝ, J.; JÍCHA, M.; OTHMER, C.; BENSLER, H. P.

RIV year

2010

Released

15. 9. 2010

Publisher

WIT Press

Location

Ashurst, UK

ISBN

1743-3533

Periodical

WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences

Year of study

69

Number

9

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

55

Pages to

66

Pages count

11

BibTex

@article{BUT89668,
  author="Matěj {Forman} and Jaroslav {Volavý} and Miroslav {Jícha} and Carsten {Othmer} and Henry Paul {Bensler}",
  title="Vorticity Confinement method applied to flow around an Ahmed body and comparison with experiments",
  journal="WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences",
  year="2010",
  volume="69",
  number="9",
  pages="55--66",
  issn="1743-3533"
}