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
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
Haeri S
(2011)
A mesoscopic description of polydispersed particle laden turbulent flows
in Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
Cheung L
(2011)
A nonlinear PSE method for two-fluid shear flows with complex interfacial topology
in Journal of Computational Physics
Ji C
(2012)
A novel iterative direct-forcing immersed boundary method and its finite volume applications
in Journal of Computational Physics
Rojanaratanangkule W
(2014)
A numerical investigation of impulsively generated vortical structures in deep and shallow fluid layers
in Physics of 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
Redford J
(2015)
A numerical study of a weakly stratified turbulent wake
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
COLEMAN G
(2009)
A numerical study of laterally strained wall-bounded turbulence
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Holgate J
(2018)
A Review of Embedded Large Eddy Simulation for Internal Flows
in Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
Johnstone R
(2015)
A sliding characteristic interface condition for direct numerical simulations
in Computers & Fluids
Chen L
(2010)
Acceleration in turbulent channel flow
in Journal of Turbulence
Jones L
(2012)
Acoustic and hydrodynamic analysis of the flow around an aerofoil with trailing-edge serrations
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Jones L
(2010)
Acoustic Source Identification for Transitional Airfoil Flows Using Cross Correlations
in AIAA Journal
Sandberg R
(2011)
An axis treatment for flow equations in cylindrical coordinates based on parity conditions
in Computers & Fluids
Lardeau S
(2010)
Analysis of cyclic events in turbulent flows using recurrence plots
in Journal of Turbulence
Touber E
(2009)
Comparison of three large-eddy simulations of shock-induced turbulent separation bubbles
in Shock Waves
Redford J
(2010)
Compressibility Effects on Boundary-Layer Transition Induced by an Isolated Roughness Element
in AIAA Journal
Sandberg R
(2015)
Compressible Direct Numerical Simulation of Low-Pressure Turbines-Part I: Methodology
in Journal of Turbomachinery
Sandberg R
(2015)
Compressible-Flow DNS with Application to Airfoil Noise
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
AVITAL E
(2011)
COMPUTATION OF THE FLOW AND NEAR SOUND FIELDS OF A FREE SURFACE PIERCING CYLINDER
in Journal of Computational Acoustics
Nolan K
(2013)
Conditional sampling of transitional boundary layers in pressure gradients
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Ikram Z
(2012)
Detached Eddy Simulation of Free-Surface Flow Around a Submerged Submarine Fairwater
in Journal of Fluids Engineering
Castagna J
(2014)
Direct numerical simulation of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill
in Computers & Fluids
De Tullio N
(2010)
Direct numerical simulation of breakdown to turbulence in a Mach 6 boundary layer over a porous surface
in Physics of Fluids
Ji C
(2013)
Direct numerical simulation of sediment entrainment in turbulent channel flow
in Physics of Fluids
Sandham N
(2009)
Direct numerical simulation of the early development of a turbulent mixing layer downstream of a splitter plate
in Journal of Turbulence
Siamas G
(2009)
Direct numerical simulation of the near-field dynamics of annular gas-liquid two-phase jets
in Physics of Fluids
Redford J
(2011)
Direct numerical simulation of transitional flow at high Mach number coupled with a thermal wall model
in Computers & Fluids
Busse A
(2015)
Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flow over a rough surface based on a surface scan
in Computers & Fluids
Sandberg R
(2013)
Direct Numerical Simulations for Flow and Noise Studies
in Procedia Engineering
Sandberg R
(2011)
Direct numerical simulations of low Reynolds number flow over airfoils with trailing-edge serrations
in Journal of Sound and Vibration
Sandberg R
(2012)
DNS of compressible pipe flow exiting into a coflow
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
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
Laizet S
(2011)
DNS of Fractal-Generated Turbulence
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Xia J
(2011)
Dynamic Large-Eddy Simulation of Droplet Effects on a Reacting Plume in Countercurrent Configuration
in Combustion Science and Technology
Siamas G
(2009)
Dynamics of annular gas-liquid two-phase swirling jets
in International Journal of Multiphase Flow
Peiffer V
(2012)
Effect of aortic taper on patterns of blood flow and wall shear stress in rabbits: association with age.
in Atherosclerosis
Lee J
(2013)
Effect of wall heating on turbulent boundary layers with temperature-dependent viscosity
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Chung Y
(2011)
Effectiveness of active flow control for turbulent skin friction drag reduction
in Physics of Fluids
Ghasemi E
(2014)
Effects of adverse and favorable pressure gradients on entropy generation in a transitional boundary layer region under the influence of freestream turbulence
in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
Sandham N
(2016)
Effects of Compressibility and Shock-Wave Interactions on Turbulent Shear Flows
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Kim J
(2012)
Efficient parallel computing with a compact finite difference scheme
in Computers & Fluids
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
Schwander F
(2009)
Evolution of the acceleration field and a reformulation of the sweeping decorrelation hypothesis in two-dimensional turbulence.
in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
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/ |