UFR 3-33 Evaluation
Turbulent flow past a smooth and rigid wall-mounted hemisphere
Semi-confined flows
Underlying Flow Regime 3-33
Evaluation
Unsteady results
Fig. 1: Visualization of flow regions and characteristic flow features of the flow past the hemisphere: (1) horseshoe vortex system, (2) stagnation area, (3) acceleration of the flow, (4) separation point, (5) dividing streamline, (6) shear layer vorticity, (7) reattachment point.
Fig. 2: Snapshot of unsteady vortical structures visualized by utilizing the iso-surfaces of the pressure fluctuations () colored by the spanwise instantaneous velocity.
Fig. 3: Velocity spectra at the monitoring points and in the wake regime of the hemisphere.
Fig. 4: Vortex shedding from the top of the hemisphere visualized by the pressure fluctuations of the LES in the symmetry plane.
Fig. 5: Visualization of the two vortex shedding types present in the wake behind the hemisphere.
Comparison between numerical and experimental time-averaged results
Data files
Experimental data
Numerical data
Contributed by: Jens Nikolas Wood, Guillaume De Nayer, Stephan Schmidt, Michael Breuer — Helmut-Schmidt Universität Hamburg
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