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Large Eddy Simulation of Separated Flow over a Two-dimensional Hump with and without Control by Means of a Synthetic Slot-jet

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Large Eddy Simulations for two flows separating from a two-dimensional hump in a duct are reported and discussed. The flows differ through the presence or absence of a synthetic slot-jet injected in a sinusoidal manner, i.e. at zero net mass-flow rate, close to the location of separation and intended to reduce (“control”) the extent of the separated region. Results reported include instantaneous visualisations, pre-multiplied spectra, wall-pressure distributions, streamfunction fields and profiles of velocity and second moments. For both flows, agreement between the simulations and the experimental results is generally good, especially in respect of the overall control effectiveness of the synthetic jet, despite the use of an approximate wall treatment bridging the viscous sublayer. Proper Orthogonal Decomposition of the velocity field is used to study structural features, and this shows that the most energetic mode in the base flow is representative of large streamwise vortices in the separated region, while in the controlled flow, most of the energetically dominant modes are associated with large spanwise vortices.

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    Alexandros Avdis, Sylvain Lardeau & Michael Leschziner

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Avdis, A., Lardeau, S. & Leschziner, M. Large Eddy Simulation of Separated Flow over a Two-dimensional Hump with and without Control by Means of a Synthetic Slot-jet. Flow Turbulence Combust 83, 343–370 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-009-9218-y

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