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Proceedings of CHT-12. ICHMT International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer.
July, 1-6, 2012, Bath, England

DOI: 10.1615/ICHMT.2012.CHT-12


ISBN: 978-1-56700-303-1

ISSN: 2578-5486

LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION OF A BUOYANT PLUME PAST A BLUFF BODY - EFFECTS OF FLOW STRUCTURES ON ENTRAINMENT CHARACTERISTICS -

pages 1399-1408
DOI: 10.1615/ICHMT.2012.CHT-12.840
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ABSTRACT

A large-eddy simulation of a buoyant plume past a bluff body (BB) is performed. The modified Rayleigh number based on the total heat input and the diameter of a BB is set at 1.2×1010. Distributions of basic statistics showed that the existence of a BB greatly varies the spatial structures of momentum and energy transport, although they gradually approached distributions corresponding to the similarity law for a fully developed plume when z/D>2.5 (z: vertical position from a heat source, D: BB diameter) since the influence of a BB becomes weaker there. Then, the relationship between entrainment and flow structures was investigated and the entrainment coefficient was found to be locally large right above a BB owing to stationary horizontal flows and azimuthal vortices. Moreover, in the case of an insulated BB, some azimuthal vortices were formed in the process of developing a plume, 1.0<z/D<2.0, owing to both weak buoyancy and BB effects, and it is suggested that they are linked to the increase of entrainment there.

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