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
Mira Martinez D
(2013)
Numerical simulations of turbulent jet flames with non-premixed combustion of hydrogen-enriched fuels
in Computers & Fluids
Redford J
(2012)
Numerical simulations of turbulent spots in supersonic boundary layers: Effects of Mach number and wall temperature
in Progress in Aerospace Sciences
Wang B
(2015)
Numerical study of oblique shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction considering sidewall effects
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Rojanaratanangkule W
(2012)
Numerical study of turbulent manoeuvring-body wakes: Interaction with a non-deformable free surface
in Journal of Turbulence
Agostini L
(2014)
On the influence of outer large-scale structures on near-wall turbulence in channel flow
in Physics of Fluids
Suponitsky V
(2011)
On the Mach number and temperature dependence of jet noise: Results from a simplified numerical model
in Journal of Sound and Vibration
Scott S
(2009)
On the quantification of preferential accumulation
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Redford J
(2012)
On the universality of turbulent axisymmetric wakes
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Fournier Y
(2011)
Optimizing Code_Saturne computations on Petascale systems
in Computers & Fluids
Busse A
(2012)
Parametric forcing approach to rough-wall turbulent channel flow
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Blesbois O
(2013)
Pattern prediction by linear analysis of turbulent flow with drag reduction by wall oscillation
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Jiang X
(2010)
Physical modelling and advanced simulations of gas-liquid two-phase jet flows in atomization and sprays
in Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
Nicolleau FC
(2011)
Presence of a Richardson's regime in kinematic simulations.
in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
SCHRADER L
(2011)
Receptivity, instability and breakdown of Görtler flow
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Alastruey J
(2012)
Reducing the data: Analysis of the role of vascular geometry on blood flow patterns in curved vessels
in Physics of Fluids
Ji C
(2014)
Saltation of particles in turbulent channel flow
in Physical Review E
CARMO B
(2010)
Secondary instabilities in the flow around two circular cylinders in tandem
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Leschziner MA
(2011)
Simulation of slot and round synthetic jets in the context of boundary-layer separation control.
in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
Hosseini G
(2013)
Simulation of the upper urinary system.
in Critical reviews in biomedical engineering
Gruncell B
(2013)
Simulations of laminar flow past a superhydrophobic sphere with drag reduction and separation delay
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
JONES L
(2010)
Stability and receptivity characteristics of a laminar separation bubble on an aerofoil
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
VAUGHAN N
(2011)
Stability of zero-pressure-gradient boundary layer distorted by unsteady Klebanoff streaks
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Hack M
(2014)
Streak instabilities in boundary layers beneath free-stream turbulence
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Dallas V
(2010)
Strong polymer-turbulence interactions in viscoelastic turbulent channel flow.
in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
Alonso M
(2009)
Study of Sound Generated by Large-Scale Structures in Low Speed Coaxial Jets
in International Journal of Aeroacoustics
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
Jiang X
(2010)
Swirling and Impinging Effects in an Annular Nonpremixed Jet Flame
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Hurst E
(2014)
The effect of Reynolds number on turbulent drag reduction by streamwise travelling waves
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Lardeau S
(2011)
The interaction of round synthetic jets with a turbulent boundary layer separating from a rounded ramp
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
JOHNSTONE R
(2009)
The resilience of the logarithmic law to pressure gradients: evidence from direct numerical simulation
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Lardeau S
(2013)
The streamwise drag-reduction response of a boundary layer subjected to a sudden imposition of transverse oscillatory wall motion
in Physics of Fluids
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
Johnstone R
(2012)
The turbulent Ekman boundary layer over an infinite wind-turbine array
in Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics
Winkler J
(2020)
Trailing-edge broadband noise prediction of an airfoil with boundary-layer tripping
in Journal of Sound and Vibration
Winkler J
(2020)
Trailing-edge broadband noise prediction of an airfoil with boundary-layer tripping
in Journal of Sound and Vibration
Mao X
(2009)
Transient growth and bypass transition in stenotic flow with a physiological waveform
in Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Sharma A
(2010)
Transient growth mechanisms of low Reynolds number flow over a low-pressure turbine blade
in Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Sandham N
(2014)
Transitional shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions in hypersonic flow
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Jelly T
(2014)
Turbulence and skin friction modification in channel flow with streamwise-aligned superhydrophobic surface texture
in Physics of Fluids
Lee J
(2014)
Turbulent thermal boundary layers with temperature-dependent viscosity
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Shen L
(2015)
Two-photon absorption and all-optical modulation in germanium-on-silicon waveguides for the mid-infrared.
in Optics letters
Antoniadis A
(2022)
UCNS3D: An open-source high-order finite-volume unstructured CFD solver
in Computer Physics Communications
Tucker P.G.
(2013)
Unsteady Computational Fluid Dynamics in Aeronautics
Akber Hassan W
(2012)
Upscaling and its application in numerical simulation of long-term CO 2 storage
in Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology
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
Tsoutsanis P
(2014)
WENO schemes on arbitrary unstructured meshes for laminar, transitional and turbulent flows
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 | 04/2013 |
End | 03/2017 |
Description | Industry funding |
Amount | £300,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | General Electric |
Sector | Private |
Country | United States |
Start | 09/2011 |
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/ |