UK Turbulence Consortium
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Southampton
Department Name: Faculty of Engineering & the Environment
Abstract
An expanded high-performance computing (HPC) consortium is proposed to investigate fundamental aspects of the turbulence problem using numerical simulation. Cases include transitional and fully developed turbulent flows in canonical and complex geometries, with relevance to a wide range of engineering, environmental/geophysical and biological applications. The consortium will serve to coordinate, augment and unify the research efforts of its participants, and to communicate its expertise and findings to an international audience. Most of the staff resource to carry out the scientific work is already in place, funded by EPSRC or other sources, and in all cases the projects have qualified and available staff in place to complete them. This application is for: (a) a core allocation of HPC time to enable consortium members to carry out simulations of world-leading quality, (b) dedicated staff at STFC Daresbury Laboratory and the University of Southampton to ensure efficient use of HPC resources and progress on key projects, (c) a PhD studentship to address issues related to the effect of next-generation HPC architectures on the future of turbulence simulation, (d) travel and subsistence for regular management meetings and international visitors, and (e) support for annual progress reviews, including two expanded workshops to which members of the wider UK turbulence community will be invited.
Organisations
Publications
Sandberg R.D.
(2011)
DNS of compressible pipe flow exiting into a coflow
in 7th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP 2011
Sandberg R.D.
(2015)
Numerical experiments of aerofoil noise: The role of direct numerical simulations in understanding and controlling noise
in Acoustics 2015 Hunter Valley
Van Den Eynde J
(2016)
Numerical Simulations of Transition due to Isolated Roughness Elements at Mach 6
in AIAA Journal
Redford J
(2010)
Compressibility Effects on Boundary-Layer Transition Induced by an Isolated Roughness Element
in AIAA Journal
Almutairi J
(2010)
Intermittent Bursting of a Laminar Separation Bubble on an Airfoil
in AIAA Journal
Jewkes J
(2011)
Modifications to a Turbulent Inflow Generation Method for Boundary-Layer Flows
in AIAA Journal
Skillen A
(2015)
Flow over a Wing with Leading-Edge Undulations
in AIAA Journal
Jones L
(2010)
Acoustic Source Identification for Transitional Airfoil Flows Using Cross Correlations
in AIAA Journal
Karabasov S
(2010)
Jet Noise: Acoustic Analogy informed by Large Eddy Simulation
in AIAA Journal
Xu D
(2019)
Study on the packed volume-to-void ratio of idealized human red blood cells using a finite-discrete element method
in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
Holgate J
(2018)
A Review of Embedded Large Eddy Simulation for Internal Flows
in Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
Peiffer V
(2012)
Effect of aortic taper on patterns of blood flow and wall shear stress in rabbits: association with age.
in Atherosclerosis
Xia J
(2011)
Dynamic Large-Eddy Simulation of Droplet Effects on a Reacting Plume in Countercurrent Configuration
in Combustion Science and Technology
Antoniadis A
(2022)
UCNS3D: An open-source high-order finite-volume unstructured CFD solver
in Computer Physics Communications
Redford J
(2011)
Direct numerical simulation of transitional flow at high Mach number coupled with a thermal wall model
in Computers & Fluids
Kim J
(2012)
Efficient parallel computing with a compact finite difference scheme
in Computers & Fluids
Sandberg R
(2011)
An axis treatment for flow equations in cylindrical coordinates based on parity conditions
in Computers & Fluids
Laizet S
(2010)
A numerical strategy to combine high-order schemes, complex geometry and parallel computing for high resolution DNS of fractal generated turbulence
in Computers & Fluids
Busse A
(2015)
Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flow over a rough surface based on a surface scan
in Computers & Fluids
Castagna J
(2014)
Direct numerical simulation of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill
in Computers & Fluids
Johnstone R
(2015)
A sliding characteristic interface condition for direct numerical simulations
in Computers & Fluids
Fournier Y
(2011)
Optimizing Code_Saturne computations on Petascale systems
in Computers & Fluids
Mira Martinez D
(2013)
Numerical simulations of turbulent jet flames with non-premixed combustion of hydrogen-enriched fuels
in Computers & Fluids
Fang J
(2014)
Investigation of low-dissipation monotonicity-preserving scheme for direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulent flows
in Computers & Fluids
Mira Martinez D
(2013)
Large-eddy simulations of unsteady hydrogen annular flames
in Computers & Fluids
Hosseini G
(2013)
Simulation of the upper urinary system.
in Critical reviews in biomedical engineering
Jiang X
(2010)
Swirling and Impinging Effects in an Annular Nonpremixed Jet Flame
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Laizet S
(2011)
DNS of Fractal-Generated Turbulence
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Zaki T
(2013)
From Streaks to Spots and on to Turbulence: Exploring the Dynamics of Boundary Layer Transition
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Sandham N
(2016)
Effects of Compressibility and Shock-Wave Interactions on Turbulent Shear Flows
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Lardeau S
(2011)
Large Eddy Simulation of Transitional Separated Flow over a Flat Plate and a Compressor Blade
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Jagus K
(2011)
Large Eddy Simulation of Diesel Fuel Injection and Mixing in a HSDI Engine
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Nicolleau F
(2013)
Vertical Motions of Heavy Inertial Particles Smaller than the Smallest Scale of the Turbulence in Strongly Stratified Turbulence
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Sandberg R
(2015)
Compressible-Flow DNS with Application to Airfoil Noise
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Akber Hassan W
(2012)
Upscaling and its application in numerical simulation of long-term CO 2 storage
in Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology
Ghasemi E
(2013)
Entropy generation in a transitional boundary layer region under the influence of freestream turbulence using transitional RANS models and DNS
in International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
Bolis A
(2014)
From h to p efficiently: optimal implementation strategies for explicit time-dependent problems using the spectral/hp element method.
in International journal for numerical methods in fluids
McKernan J
(2008)
Linear and non-linear simulations of feedback control in plane Poiseuille flow
in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
Laizet S
(2010)
Incompact3d: A powerful tool to tackle turbulence problems with up to O (10 5 ) computational cores
in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
Alonso M
(2009)
Study of Sound Generated by Large-Scale Structures in Low Speed Coaxial Jets
in International Journal of Aeroacoustics
Vos P
(2011)
A generic framework for time-stepping partial differential equations (PDEs): general linear methods, object-oriented implementation and application to fluid problems
in International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics
Bulat G
(2015)
Large eddy simulations of isothermal confined swirling flow in an industrial gas-turbine
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Sandberg R
(2012)
DNS of compressible pipe flow exiting into a coflow
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Siamas G
(2009)
Numerical investigation of a perturbed swirling annular two-phase jet
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Tyson C
(2013)
Numerical simulation of fully-developed compressible flows over wavy surfaces
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Lee J
(2014)
Turbulent thermal boundary layers with temperature-dependent viscosity
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Laizet S
(2012)
Low Mach number prediction of the acoustic signature of fractal-generated turbulence
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Jung S
(2012)
Large-eddy simulation of accelerated turbulent flow in a circular pipe
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Scott S
(2009)
On the quantification of preferential accumulation
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Bentaleb Y
(2013)
The structure of a three-dimensional boundary layer subjected to streamwise-varying spanwise-homogeneous pressure gradient
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Description | Within the UK turbulence consortium, we have been able to investigate turbulence in a wide range of applications, ranging from flow over wings to flow in estuaries and in nasal cavities. New insights have been generated by the numerical experiments conducted that have found their way into modelling. |
Exploitation Route | Numerical experiments conducted within UKTC have pushed the boundaries of turbulence research. Other groups worldwide are building on work conducted within UKTC. |
Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Energy,Environment |
Description | A more fundamental study of flow past a Naca 0012 wing tip funded by UKTC has allowed Prof Sherwin's group to assess the capability of LES modelling and the resolution required to obtain mean properties that are comparable with experimental data. This understanding is now being applied to more complex geometries of direct interest to our industrial partner, McLaren Racing Ltd. |
First Year Of Impact | 2012 |
Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Transport |
Impact Types | Economic |
Description | ITN-IDP Grant "Multisolve" |
Amount | € 3,816,682 (EUR) |
Funding ID | grant agreement number 317269 |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 03/2013 |
End | 03/2017 |
Description | Industry funding |
Amount | £300,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | General Electric |
Sector | Private |
Country | United States |
Start | 08/2011 |
End | 09/2014 |
Title | UK Turbulence Consortium database |
Description | Data from numerical experiments of canonical test cases are stored on the UKTC database and made available upon request. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2006 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Other (international) groups have requested access to data. |
Title | Incompact3D - CFD code |
Description | Incompact3d is a powerful numerical tool for academic research. It can combine the versatility of industrial codes with the accuracy of spectral codes. Thank to a very successful project with NAG and HECToR (UK Supercomputing facility), Incompact3d can be used on up to hundreds of thousands computational cores to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. This high level of parallelisation is achieved thank to a highly scalable 2D decomposition library and a distributed Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) interface. This library is available at http://www.2decomp.org and can be freely used for your own code. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2013 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | A large (approx 100) number of international users are now using the code. |
URL | https://code.google.com/p/incompact3d/ |