in general, the aerodynamic stability of long span bridges is evaluated based on the results of wind tunnel tests in the low reynolds number region, because in almost all wind tunnel tests, it is impracticable to satisfy reynolds number similitude. therefore, in order to correctly evaluate conventional wind tunnel test results, reynolds number effects on the aerodynamic force coefficients acting o...

the thermo-hydraulic behavior of the air flow over a two dimensional ribbed channel wasnumerically investigated in various rib-width ratio configurations (b/h=0.5-1.75) atdifferent reynolds numbers, ranging from 6000 to 18000. the capability of differentturbulence models, including standard k-ε, rng k-ε, standard k-ω, and sst k-ω, inpredicting the heat transfer rate was compared with the experi...

The unsteady separated turbulent flow around an oscillating airfoil pitching in a sinusoidal pattern in the regime of low Reynolds number is investigated numerically employing the URANS approach with two advanced turbulence models, namely the RNG kmode and Transition SST model, and the DES approach based on the SST kmodel. A comparison with experimental data shows that the SST kbased D...

This report presents an evaluation of the steady-state capability of the turbulence models available in the commercial CFD code FLUENT 6.0, for their application to the simulation of hydrofoil turbulent boundary layer separation at high-Reynolds numbers. Four widely applied two-equation RANS turbulence models were qualitatively and quantitatively assessed through comparison with high-quality ex...

1D, 2D and 3D numerical simulations were carried out with the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations (RANS) for horizontal oil-water core-annular flow in which oil core stays laminar while water layer is turbulent. The turbulence described Launder-Sharma low-Reynolds number k−ϵ model. simulation results are compared experiments our lab a 21 mm diameter pipe using viscosity ratio of 1150 dens...