Implicit turbulence modeling is the numerical simulation of high Reynolds fluid flow using nonoscillatory finite volume (NFV) schemes without any explicit subgrid scale model. Here we investigate the ability of a particular NFV scheme, MPDATA, to simulate decaying turbulence in a triply periodic cube for a variety of viscosities, comparing our results to analogous pseudo-spectral studies. In the regime of direct numerical simulation, MPDATA is shown to agree closely with the pseudo-spectral results. As viscosity is reduced, the two model results diverge. We study the MPDATA results in the inviscid limit, using a combination of mathematical analysis and computational experiment. We validate these results as representing the turbulent flow in the limit of very high Reynolds number.

Issue Section:
Technical Papers
Keywords:
turbulence, flow simulation, finite volume methods, viscosity, Navier-Stokes equations
Topics:
Flow (Dynamics), Modeling, Reynolds number, Simulation, Turbulence, Viscosity, Spectra (Spectroscopy), Computer simulation, Resolution (Optics)
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