Non-body-fitted Cartesian-mesh simulation of highly turbulent flows using multi-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann method

This paper presents a lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) based study aimed at numerical simulation of highly turbulent and largely inclined flow around obstacles of curved geometry using non-body-fitted Cartesian meshes. The approach features (1) combining the interpolated bounce-back scheme with the LBM of multi-relaxation-time (MRT) type to enable the use of simple Cartesian mesh for the flow cases even with complex geometries; and (2) incorporating the Spalart-Allmaras (SA) turbulence model into LBM in order to represent the turbulent flow effect. The numerical experiments are performed corresponding to flows around an NACA0012 airfoil at Re=5x10^5 and around a flat plate at Re=2x10^4, respectively. The agreement between all simulation results obtained from this study and the data provided by other literature demonstrates the reliability of the enhanced LBM proposed in this paper for simulating, simply on Cartesian meshes, complex flows that may involve bodies of curved boundary, high Reynolds number, and large angle of attack.

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