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
Agostini L
(2014)
On the influence of outer large-scale structures on near-wall turbulence in channel flow
in Physics of Fluids
Agostini L
(2014)
Spanwise oscillatory wall motion in channel flow: drag-reduction mechanisms inferred from DNS-predicted phase-wise property variations at
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Akber Hassan W
(2012)
Upscaling and its application in numerical simulation of long-term CO 2 storage
in Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology
Alastruey J
(2012)
Reducing the data: Analysis of the role of vascular geometry on blood flow patterns in curved vessels
in Physics of Fluids
Almutairi J
(2010)
Intermittent Bursting of a Laminar Separation Bubble on an Airfoil
in AIAA Journal
Alonso M
(2009)
Study of Sound Generated by Large-Scale Structures in Low Speed Coaxial Jets
in International Journal of Aeroacoustics
Antoniadis A
(2022)
UCNS3D: An open-source high-order finite-volume unstructured CFD solver
in Computer Physics Communications
AVITAL E
(2011)
COMPUTATION OF THE FLOW AND NEAR SOUND FIELDS OF A FREE SURFACE PIERCING CYLINDER
in Journal of Computational Acoustics
AVITAL E
(2013)
NONLINEAR PROPAGATION OF SOUND EMITTED BY HIGH SPEED WAVE PACKETS
in Journal of Computational Acoustics
Bai X
(2014)
Numerical simulation of a marine current turbine in free surface flow
in Renewable Energy
Bentaleb Y
(2012)
Large-eddy simulation of turbulent boundary layer separation from a rounded step
in Journal of Turbulence
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
Blesbois O
(2013)
Pattern prediction by linear analysis of turbulent flow with drag reduction by wall oscillation
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
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
Bulat G
(2015)
Large eddy simulations of isothermal confined swirling flow in an industrial gas-turbine
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Busse A
(2012)
Influence of an anisotropic slip-length boundary condition on turbulent channel flow
in Physics of Fluids
Busse A
(2015)
Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flow over a rough surface based on a surface scan
in Computers & Fluids
Busse A
(2012)
Parametric forcing approach to rough-wall turbulent channel flow
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
CARMO B
(2010)
Secondary instabilities in the flow around two circular cylinders in tandem
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Carmo B
(2011)
Flow-induced vibration of a circular cylinder subjected to wake interference at low Reynolds number
in Journal of Fluids and Structures
Castagna J
(2014)
Direct numerical simulation of a turbulent flow over an axisymmetric hill
in Computers & Fluids
Chacko S
(2011)
Large-eddy simulation of thermal striping in unsteady non-isothermal triple jet
in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
Chen L
(2010)
Acceleration in turbulent channel flow
in Journal of Turbulence
Cheung L
(2011)
A nonlinear PSE method for two-fluid shear flows with complex interfacial topology
in Journal of Computational Physics
Cheung L
(2010)
Linear and nonlinear instability waves in spatially developing two-phase mixing layers
in Physics of Fluids
Chung Y
(2011)
Effectiveness of active flow control for turbulent skin friction drag reduction
in Physics of Fluids
COLEMAN G
(2009)
A numerical study of laterally strained wall-bounded turbulence
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Coleman G
(2015)
Direct Numerical Simulation, Theories and Modelling of Wall Turbulence with a Range of Pressure Gradients
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Dallas V
(2010)
Strong polymer-turbulence interactions in viscoelastic turbulent channel flow.
in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
De Tullio N
(2014)
Influence of boundary-layer disturbances on the instability of a roughness wake in a high-speed boundary layer
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
De Tullio N
(2013)
Laminar-turbulent transition induced by a discrete roughness element in a supersonic boundary layer
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
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
Duque-Daza C
(2012)
Modelling turbulent skin-friction control using linearized Navier-Stokes equations
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Fang J
(2014)
Investigation of low-dissipation monotonicity-preserving scheme for direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulent flows
in Computers & Fluids
Fournier Y
(2011)
Optimizing Code_Saturne computations on Petascale systems
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
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
Gruncell B
(2013)
Simulations of laminar flow past a superhydrophobic sphere with drag reduction and separation delay
in Physics of Fluids
Hack M
(2014)
Streak instabilities in boundary layers beneath free-stream turbulence
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Haeri S
(2011)
A mesoscopic description of polydispersed particle laden turbulent flows
in Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
Holgate J
(2018)
A Review of Embedded Large Eddy Simulation for Internal Flows
in Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
Hosseini G
(2013)
Simulation of the upper urinary system.
in Critical reviews in biomedical engineering
Hurst E
(2014)
The effect of Reynolds number on turbulent drag reduction by streamwise travelling waves
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
Jagus K
(2011)
Large Eddy Simulation of Diesel Fuel Injection and Mixing in a HSDI Engine
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Jelly T
(2014)
Turbulence and skin friction modification in channel flow with streamwise-aligned superhydrophobic surface texture
in Physics of Fluids
Jewkes J
(2011)
Modifications to a Turbulent Inflow Generation Method for Boundary-Layer Flows
in AIAA Journal
Ji C
(2012)
A novel iterative direct-forcing immersed boundary method and its finite volume applications
in Journal of Computational 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/ |