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
Redford J
(2015)
A numerical study of a weakly stratified turbulent wake
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Redford J
(2012)
Numerical simulations of turbulent spots in supersonic boundary layers: Effects of Mach number and wall temperature
in Progress in Aerospace Sciences
Redford J
(2010)
Compressibility Effects on Boundary-Layer Transition Induced by an Isolated Roughness Element
in AIAA Journal
Rojanaratanangkule W
(2014)
A numerical investigation of impulsively generated vortical structures in deep and shallow fluid layers
in Physics of Fluids
Rojanaratanangkule W
(2012)
Numerical study of turbulent manoeuvring-body wakes: Interaction with a non-deformable free surface
in Journal of Turbulence
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
(2011)
An axis treatment for flow equations in cylindrical coordinates based on parity conditions
in Computers & Fluids
Sandberg R
(2013)
Direct Numerical Simulations for Flow and Noise Studies
in Procedia Engineering
Sandberg R
(2012)
DNS of compressible pipe flow exiting into a coflow
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Sandberg R
(2012)
Numerical investigation of turbulent supersonic axisymmetric wakes
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Sandberg R
(2015)
Compressible-Flow DNS with Application to Airfoil Noise
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Sandberg R
(2015)
Compressible Direct Numerical Simulation of Low-Pressure Turbines-Part I: Methodology
in Journal of Turbomachinery
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
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
Sandham N
(2016)
Effects of Compressibility and Shock-Wave Interactions on Turbulent Shear Flows
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Sandham N
(2014)
Transitional shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions in hypersonic flow
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Sandham N
(2009)
Direct numerical simulation of the early development of a turbulent mixing layer downstream of a splitter plate
in Journal of Turbulence
SCHRADER L
(2011)
Receptivity, instability and breakdown of Görtler flow
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
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
Scott S
(2009)
On the quantification of preferential accumulation
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Sharma A
(2010)
Transient growth mechanisms of low Reynolds number flow over a low-pressure turbine blade
in Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Shen L
(2015)
Two-photon absorption and all-optical modulation in germanium-on-silicon waveguides for the mid-infrared.
in Optics letters
Siamas G
(2009)
Direct numerical simulation of the near-field dynamics of annular gas-liquid two-phase jets
in Physics of Fluids
Siamas G
(2009)
Numerical investigation of a perturbed swirling annular two-phase jet
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Siamas G
(2009)
Dynamics of annular gas-liquid two-phase swirling jets
in International Journal of Multiphase Flow
Skillen A
(2015)
Flow over a Wing with Leading-Edge Undulations
in AIAA Journal
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
SUPONITSKY V
(2010)
Linear and nonlinear mechanisms of sound radiation by instability waves in subsonic jets
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Touber E
(2009)
Comparison of three large-eddy simulations of shock-induced turbulent separation bubbles
in Shock Waves
TOUBER E
(2011)
Low-order stochastic modelling of low-frequency motions in reflected shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Touber E
(2009)
Large-eddy simulation of low-frequency unsteadiness in a turbulent shock-induced separation bubble
in Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Touber E
(2012)
Near-wall streak modification by spanwise oscillatory wall motion and drag-reduction mechanisms
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Tsoutsanis P
(2014)
WENO schemes on arbitrary unstructured meshes for laminar, transitional and turbulent flows
in Journal of Computational Physics
Tucker P.G.
(2013)
Unsteady Computational Fluid Dynamics in Aeronautics
Tyson C
(2013)
Numerical simulation of fully-developed compressible flows over wavy surfaces
in International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Van Den Eynde J
(2016)
Numerical Simulations of Transition due to Isolated Roughness Elements at Mach 6
in AIAA Journal
VAUGHAN N
(2011)
Stability of zero-pressure-gradient boundary layer distorted by unsteady Klebanoff streaks
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
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
Wang B
(2015)
Numerical study of oblique shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction considering sidewall effects
in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
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
Xia J
(2011)
Dynamic Large-Eddy Simulation of Droplet Effects on a Reacting Plume in Countercurrent Configuration
in Combustion Science and Technology
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
Xu D
(2013)
Large scale simulation of red blood cell aggregation in shear flows.
in Journal of biomechanics
Zaki T
(2013)
From Streaks to Spots and on to Turbulence: Exploring the Dynamics of Boundary Layer Transition
in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
| 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/ |