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The paper considers the application of the Craft et al. [6]non-linear eddy-viscosity model to separating and impinging flows. The original formulation was found to lead to numerical instabilities when applied to flow separating from a sharp corner. An alternative formulation for the variation of the turbulent viscosity parameterc μ with strain rate is proposed which, together with a proposed improvement in the implementation of the non-linear model, removes this weakness. It does, however, lead to worse predictions in an impinging jet, and a further modification in the expression for c μ is proposed, which both retains the stability enhancements and improves the prediction of the stagnating flow. The Yap [24] algebraic length-scale correction term, included in the original model, is replaced with a differential form, developed from that proposed by Iacovides and Raisee [10]. This removes the need to prescribe the wall-distance, and is shown to lead to superior heat-transfer predictions in both an abrupt pipe flow and the axisymmetric impinging jet. One predictive weakness still, however, remains. The proposed model, in common with other near-wall models tested for the abrupt pipe expansion, returns a stronger dependence of Nusselt number on the Reynolds number than that indicated by the experimental data.
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Craft, T., Iacovides, H. & Yoon, J. Progress in the Use of Non-Linear Two-Equation Models in the Computation of Convective Heat-Transfer in Impinging and Separated Flows. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 63, 59–80 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009973923473
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