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into theNLEDHM, theNLEDHM successfullypredicts turbulentbuoyant flows as
mentioned in Hattori et al. [24].
α
t
jk
=
C
∗
θ1
f
RT
u
i
u
j
A
ik
τ
m
(78)
f
RT
= 1 +
1
2
τ
2
m
[C
2
θ2
(W
2
− S
2
) +(C
2
θ3
− C
2
θ2
)W
2
] (79)
whereC
∗
θ1
,C
θ2
,andC
θ3
aremodelconstantsandτ
m
isthecharacteristictime-scale.
Inintroducingthe dimensionlessReynoldsstress tensor A
ij
, α
t
jk
(∂ /∂x
k
)ofthe
streamwise turbulent heat flux,
uθ (j =1), is given as follows:
α
t
xy
=
C
∗
θ1
f
RT
uv
k
u
2
+ v
2
τ
m
∂
∂y
(80)
where, regarding the derivation of equation (80), a fully developed channel flow is
assumed.
The original model of equation (57) makes for the streamwise turbulent heat
flux α
t
xy
=(C
∗
θ1
/f
RT
)v
2
τ
m
. Comparing both equations, the effect of dimensionless
Reynolds stress tensor for the prediction of the streamwise turbulent heat flux is
obviously obtained, i.e., the streamwise velocity intensity,
u
2
, which has a strong
correlation with
uθ [47], evidently improves the prediction.
8.9 Model Performances
8.9.1 Prediction of rotating channel flow using NLEDMM
The evaluations for the newly improved NLEDM (or NLEDMM) are shown in
Figures8.32–8.42. Inorderto calculatethepresent model,the numericaltechnique
used is a finite-volume method [48].
First, cases of wall-normal rotating channel flows are shown in Figures [8.32–
8.42]. In this case, the streamwise mean velocity decreases with the increasing
rotationnumberduetotheexchangemomentum betweenthestreamwise andspan-
wise velocity as indicated in Figures 8.32a and c. Thus, the spanwise velocity
increases at the lower rotation numbers, but the spanwise velocity reaches max-
imum value at a critical rotation number. Then, the spanwise velocity decreases
because the streamwise velocity becomes almost zero at higher rotation numbers.
In comparison with DNS results, the present NLEDMM gives better predictions
than the predictions of the NLCLS model. In particular, Reynolds shear stresses,
vw, are predicted very well as shown in Figure 8.32d. Figure 8.33 shows relation
betweenstreamwise andspanwisevelocitiesinthiscase, inwhich thelaminarsolu-
tionsare includedforcomparison. Obviously, theflowtendsto belaminarizedwith
theincreasing rotationnumber, andthe presentmodelcan predictproperlythisten-
dency. Also, anisotropy in turbulent intensities is reproduced by the present cubic