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Uncertainty quantification of turbulence model closure coefficients for transonic wall-bounded flows
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Kleb, William West Sr., Thomas Schaefer, John Rumsey, Christopher Hosder, Serhat Carlson, Jan-Renee |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | The goal of this work was to quantify the uncertainty and sensitivity of commonly used turbulence models in Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes codes due to uncertainty in the values of closure coefficients for transonic, wall-bounded flows and to rank the contribution of each coefficient to uncertainty in various output flow quantities of interest. Specifically, uncertainty quantification of turbulence model closure coefficients was performed for transonic flow over an axisymmetric bump at zero degrees angle of attack and the RAE 2822 transonic airfoil at a lift coefficient of 0.744. Three turbulence models were considered: the Spalart-Allmaras Model, Wilcox (2006) k-w Model, and the Menter Shear-Stress Trans- port Model. The FUN3D code developed by NASA Langley Research Center was used as the flow solver. The uncertainty quantification analysis employed stochastic expansions based on non-intrusive polynomial chaos as an efficient means of uncertainty propagation. Several integrated and point-quantities are considered as uncertain outputs for both CFD problems. All closure coefficients were treated as epistemic uncertain variables represented with intervals. Sobol indices were used to rank the relative contributions of each closure coefficient to the total uncertainty in the output quantities of interest. This study identified a number of closure coefficients for each turbulence model for which more information will reduce the amount of uncertainty in the output significantly for transonic, wall-bounded flows. |
| File Size | 7647673 |
| Page Count | 26 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20160005982 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t4km49d7c |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2015-06-22 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Fluid Mechanics And Thermodynamics Navier-stokes Equation Transonic Flow Computational Fluid Dynamics Turbulence Models Wall Flow Shear Stress Reynolds Averaging Airfoils Prediction Analysis Techniques Zero Angle of Attack Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
