Last modified: 2020-07-27
Abstract
Fluid models were developed as an alternative to the Navier-Stokes equations to avoid computational complexity especially in case of turbulent flows. Model errors due to the variation of a model parameter become an immediate concern in different aspects. In this presentation, we discuss two such aspects as the conservation of energy and enstrophy, and the sensitivity to a model parameter for the so called Time Relaxation Model, TRM. This filter based stabilization model with an added relaxation term is considered a high order fluid model (see Refs. [1, 2, 3]). Energy and enstrophy are two essential quantities characterizing change in the structure of the flow in time and are used to test if a simulation of a fluid flow is properly performed. We show that the energy and enstrophy obtained from TRM tend to the corresponding quantities of Navier-Stokes Equation as the model parameters tend to zero. Our numerical experiments confirm the above conclusions.
References
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