2019/01/18 by John S. Haywood, Haywood, John S., Adrian Sescu +1
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Environmental Science · #76F40 #76F45 #76F65 #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows #Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations #Wind and Air Flow Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1901.06420
openalex publication_date 2019/01/18 · openalex created_date 2019/02/21 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Large eddy simulations and three-dimensional proper orthogonal decomposition were used to study the interaction between a large stationary and moving bluff body and a high Reynolds number stably-stratified turbulent boundary layer. An immersed boundary method is utilized to take into account the effect of the bluff body on the boundary layer flow and turbulent inflow conditions upstream of the bluff body are imposed by employing a concurrent precursor simulation method both because a pseudo-spectral method is utilized in the horizontal directions. The dominant POD mode type was observed to occur at higher energy levels in the more turbulent wakes. Varying the thermal stratification showed only a slight effect on the turbulent statistics, but a significant effect on the number of dominant POD modes at the highest energy levels.