A large eddy simulation of flows around an underwater vehicle model using an immersed boundary method

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摘要 Alargeeddysimulation(LES)oftheflowsaroundanunderwatervehiclemodelatintermediateReynoldsnumbersisperformed.TheunderwatervehiclemodelistakenastheDARPASUBOFFwithfullappendages,wheretheReynoldsnumberbasedonthehulllengthis1.0×105.Animmersedboundarymethodbasedonthemoving-least-squaresreconstructionisusedtohandlethecomplexgeometricboundaries.Theadaptivemeshrefinementisutilizedtoresolvetheflowsnearthehull.Theparallelscalabilitiesoftheflowsolveraretestedonmesheswiththenumberofcellsvaryingfrom50millionto3.2billion.Theparallelsolverreachesnearlylinearscalabilityfortheflowsaroundtheunderwatervehiclemodel.Thepresentsimulationcapturestheessentialfeaturesofthevortexstructuresnearthehullandinthewake.Bothofthetime-averagedpressurecoefficientsandstreamwisevelocityprofilesobtainedfromtheLESareconsistentwiththecharacteristicsoftheflowspassanappendedaxisymmetricbody.Thecodeefficiencyanditscorrectpredictionsonflowfeaturesallowustoperformthefull-scalesimulationsontensofthousandsofcoreswithbillionsofgridpointsforhigher-Reynolds-numberflowsaroundtheunderwatervehicles.
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出处 《力学快报:英文版》 2016年6期
出版日期 2016年06月16日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)