Although artificially generated inflow turbulence satisfies statistical properties of turbulence, the generated inflow turbulence usually attenuates inside the computational domain, especially in the region near the inflow boundary. This is mainly because artificially generated inflow turbulence does not always satisfy the governing equations (momentum and continuity equations). In this study, the effects of imposing the continuity condition on artificially generated inflow turbulence in the LES analysis of a plane boundary-layer flow were investigated by comparing the results with those without the continuity condition and using periodic inlet-outlet and lateral boundary conditions. The results showed that about 11-12% of the attenuation of the turbulent kinetic energy near the inflow boundary was improved by imposing the continuity condition.
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