Case 3: Separated Flows - An Assessment of the Predictive Capability of Five Common Turbulence Models

摘要

The results presented herein were generated using the commercial CFD solver Fluent, which makes available to the user a relatively large number of turbulence model options. Fluent is widely used in both industry and academia, and it was of interest to the authors to assess the applicability of the available models in predicting separated flows. Our interest is also derived, in part, from our use of the code in the design of high lift, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's) in which the ability to predict flow separation is crucial.