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    Best-Practices For Large Eddy Simulations (LES) in FLUENT

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    This document provides best practices for performing large eddy simulations (LES) in ANSYS FLUENT. It recommends using a hex mesh with local refinement in boundary layers and wakes. Central or bounded central differencing should be used for momentum equations. The dynamic Smagorinsky model is recommended for subgrid scale modeling. The procedure involves computing a RANS mean flow, initializing LES with synthesized turbulence, selecting the SGS model, setting time step and parameters, monitoring quantities, sampling data over several flow through times, and post-processing results.

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    This document provides best practices for performing large eddy simulations (LES) in ANSYS FLUENT. It recommends using a hex mesh with local refinement in boundary layers and wakes. Central or bounded central differencing should be used for momentum equations. The dynamic Smagorinsky model is recommended for subgrid scale modeling. The procedure involves computing a RANS mean flow, initializing LES with synthesized turbulence, selecting the SGS model, setting time step and parameters, monitoring quantities, sampling data over several flow through times, and post-processing results.

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    This document provides best practices for performing large eddy simulations (LES) in ANSYS FLUENT. It recommends using a hex mesh with local refinement in boundary layers and wakes. Central or bounded central differencing should be used for momentum equations. The dynamic Smagorinsky model is recommended for subgrid scale modeling. The procedure involves computing a RANS mean flow, initializing LES with synthesized turbulence, selecting the SGS model, setting time step and parameters, monitoring quantities, sampling data over several flow through times, and post-processing results.

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    Best-Practices for Large Eddy Simulations (LES) in

    FLUENT
    General Tips
    1.

    2.

    3.

    4.

    Mesh

    a. Hex mesh is an ideal choice for accuracy


    b. Avoid abrupt change in grid spacing (cell size) or too aggressive
    stretching in eddy-congested regions (e.g., boundary layer, nearwake)
    c. Take advantage of hybrid mesh and local mesh refinement
    capability (e.g. wall boundary layer, near-wake)

    Spatial discretization

    a. The node-based gradient option is preferred for unstructured


    (e.g., tet) meshes
    b. Stick with central differencing or bounded central differencing for
    momentum equations
    c. When undershoot/overshoot of the solution fields becomes a critical
    issue, consider using high-order upwind schemes (QUICK,
    MUSCL, SOU) for scalars

    Time-discretization

    a. Use the second-order scheme (default)


    b. Use the NITA/fractional-step method for incompressible flows
    c. With the iterative scheme, SIMPLEC has been found best choice
    i. When the mesh quality is not bad, jack up the URF (0.9 1.0) for
    pressure and momentum equations

    SGS modeling

    a. Dynamic Smagorinskys model is recommended


    b. Dynamic TKE model can potentially benefit highly non-equilibrium
    flows and reacting flows

    Recommended Procedure
    1.

    Compute the mean flow with steady RANS

    2.

    Superimpose the synthesized turbulence on the mean flow

    3.

    Switch to LES, select the SGS turbulence model of your


    choice

    4.

    k- model is sufficient
    The RANS solution doesnt have to be fully converged
    Use TUI (/solve/initialize/init-instantaneous-vel)

    GUI (Define/Model/Viscous)

    Select the solver algorithm (e.g., ITA/NITA,


    FSM/PISO/SIMPLEC) and the discretization schemes

    Define/Model/Solver
    Solve/Controls/Solution

    5.

    6.

    7.
    8.
    9.

    Set the time-step (t) and adjust the solver parameters if


    needed (e.g., URFs, convergence criteria)
    Solve/Iterate
    Solve/Controls/Solution

    Set the monitors for relevant global (e.g., forces/moments)


    and local quantities (e.g., velocity, pressure) of your choice
    Solve/Monitors/Force
    Solve/Monitor/Surface
    Solve/Monitor/Volume

    Set the autosave of the data files (e.g., every a few hundreds
    time-steps)
    File/Write/Autosave

    Start the transient run and continue until a statistically


    stationary state is reached

    Monitoring integral and/or local quantities will help you judge this

    Save the viewgraphs of your choice for animation (contours


    of pressure, iso-surfaces of vorticity, second-invariant, etc.)
    Solve/Execute Commands

    10.

    Start sampling the data (to compute mean and r.m.s. values)

    11.

    Continue sampling for a sufficiently long period of time

    12.

    Post-process the results

    Solve/Initialize/Reset Statistics
    Solve/Iterate (Click on the Data Sampling for Time Statistics
    button)

    Several flow-through times (L/U0)


    Until the mean fields recover any homogeneity (e.g., axisymmetry,
    2-D)

    Display/Contours(Vectors)/Unsteady Statistics
    Plot/XY Plot
    Plot/FFT

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