Impact of Turbulence Models on the Air Flow in a Confined Rectangular Space

Authors

  • Jakub Mularski Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 27 Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego St, 50- 370 Wroclaw, Poland
  • Amit Arora Shaheed Bhagat Singh State Technical Campus, Ferozepur-152004, Punjab, India
  • Muhammad Azam Saeed Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Faisalabad Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
  • Lukasz Niedzwiecki Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 27 Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego St, 50- 370 Wroclaw, Poland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37256/est.212021627

Keywords:

CFD, turbulence, air flow

Abstract

The paper regards the impact of four different turbulence models on the air flow pattern in a confined rectangular space. The following approaches are analyzed. The Baseline (BSL) Reynolds model, the Speziale-Sarkar-Gatzki (SSG) Reynolds model, the Menter's shear-stress transport (SST) model and the basic k-ε model. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) results are compared with the experimental measurements in four different planes. The Reynolds number for the given conditions is equal to 5000. The k-ε model yielded the most accurate results with regard to the experimental data but its reliability decreased near the wall region. With respect to the other models, it was also found that the k-ε approach generated the least circulating flow.

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Published

2020-10-22

How to Cite

[1]
J. Mularski, A. Arora, M. A. Saeed, and L. Niedzwiecki, “Impact of Turbulence Models on the Air Flow in a Confined Rectangular Space”, Engineering Science & Technology, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 46–53, Oct. 2020.