A Multiscale Finite Element Formulation With Discontinuity Capturing for Turbulence Models With Dominant Reactionlike Terms

A stabilization technique targeting the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations is proposed to account for the multiscale nature of turbulence and high solution gradients. The objective is effective stabilization in computations with the advection-diffusion reaction equations, which are typical of the class of turbulence scale-determining equations where reaction-dominated effects strongly influence the boundary layer prediction in the presence of nonequilibrium phenomena. The stabilization technique, which is based on a variational multiscale method, includes a discontinuity-capturing term designed to be operative when the solution gradients are high and the reactionlike terms are dominant. As test problems, we use a 2D model problem and 3D flow computation for a linear compressor cascade.

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