UFR 4-18 Best Practice Advice

Flow and heat transfer in a pin-fin array

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Key Physics

Summarise the key flow physics which characterise the UFR and which must be captured for accurate prediction of the assessment parameters. The two key physical phenomena which have to be captured here are:

• The vortex shedding around the pins.
• The horseshoe vortices due to the interaction between the pins and the endwall.

Numerical Modelling

• Discretisation method
• Grids and grid resolution

Physical Modelling

• Turbulence modelling
• Transition modelling
• Near-wall modelling
• Other modelling

Application Uncertainties

Summarise any aspects of the UFR model set-up which are subject to uncertainty and to which the assessment parameters are particularly sensitive (e.g location and nature of transition to turbulence; specification of turbulence quantities at inlet; flow leakage through gaps etc.)

Recommendations for Future Work

Propose further studies which will improve the quality or scope of the BPA and perhaps bring it up to date. For example, perhaps further calculations of the test-case should be performed employing more recent, highly promising models of turbulence (e.g Spalart and Allmaras, Durbin's v2f, etc.). Or perhaps new experiments should be undertaken for which the values of key parameters (e.g. pressure gradient or streamline curvature) are much closer to those encountered in real application challenges.

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Contributed by: Sofiane Benhamadouche — EDF

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