Validation and assessment of different RANS turbulence models for simulating turbulent flow through an orifice plate
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Jurga, A. P., Janocha, M. J., Yin, G., Giljarhus, K. E. T., & Ong, M. C. (2021, November). Validation and assessment of different RANS turbulence models for simulating turbulent flow through an orifice plate. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (Vol. 1201, No. 1, p. 012019). IOP Publishing. 10.1088/1757-899x/1201/1/012019Sammendrag
In the present study, numerical simulations using different Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) turbulence models are carried out to investigate the turbulent flow through the orifice plate at Reynolds number (Re) of 23000. The orifice thickness to pipe diameter ratio (t) and the orifice diameter to pipe diameter ratio (β) are fixed and equal to 0.1 and 0.5, respectively. The objective is to evaluate the behaviour of various RANS models with respect to the relevant flow parameters such as the pressure drop, velocity distributions and turbulence intensity profiles in the pipe by comparing the results with available published experimental data. The following turbulence models are studied: the k – ε, the k – ε Low Re, the k – ε RNG, the k – ε Realizable, the k – ω SST, the γ – SST, the EARSM and the k – ε Cubic models. It is found that based on the validation study of the flow through the orifice plate, the following models are in good agreement with experimental measurements: the k – ω SST, the γ – SST and the EARSM. They show a better performance than the k – ε model family in predicting the flow features which are important for the orifice flowmeter design.