A computational study of turbulent flow separation for a circular cylinder using skin friction boundary conditions

• In this paper we present a computational study of turbulent flow separation for a circular cylinder at high Reynolds numbers. We use a stabilized finite element method together with skin friction boundary conditions, where we study flow separation with respect to the decrease of a friction parameter. In particular, we consider the case of zero friction corresponding to pure slip boundary conditions, for which we observe an inviscid separation mechanism of large scale streamwise vortices, identified in our earlier work. We compare our computational results to experiments for very high Reynolds numbers. In particular, we connect the pattern of streamwise vorticity in our computations to experimental findings of spanwise 3d cell structures reported in the literature.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Beräkningsmatematik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Computational Mathematics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

turbulent boundary layer

flow separation

General Galerkin method

a posteriori error estimation

adaptive finite element method

skin firction boundary conditions

Numerical analysis

Numerisk analys

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