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356 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
In theAWF, the wall shear stress isobtainedby theanalytical solution ofa sim-
plified near-wall version of thetransport equationfor the wall-parallelmomentum.
Theresultantshearstressformhereisthesameasthatfortheroughwallturbulence
but with the slip velocity U
w
in the integration constant A
U
.
Since thewall permeability alsomakes the flowmore turbulent, y
∗
v
should have
its dependency. Equation (38) is thus further modified as
y
∗
v
= y
∗
vs
1 −(h
∗
/70)
m
− f
K
(70)
where f
K
is a function of the permeability. By referring to the experiments and
the DNS data [32, 33], the range of y
∗
v
which depends on the wall permeability
is estimated. Considering the roughness effects in y
∗
v
, the optimised function in
equation (70) for the permeability effects is
f
K
= 3.7
1 −exp
=
−
K
∗
6
2
>
(71)
whereK
∗
=
√
Kk
P
/ν. In thisform, K
∗
is usedrather thanRe
K
since theAWF uses
√
k
P
for the velocity scale. In order to keep consistency with such normalisation,
Equation (68) is rewritten as
f
α
p
exp
−
K
∗1.68
250
(72)
using the relation of Re
K
c
1/4
µ
K
∗
. The following modified form, however, is
employed after further tuning of the model function
f
α
p
= exp
−
K
∗1.76
180
(73)
Examples of applications
Permeable-wallchannelflows. Inordertoconfirmtheperformanceofthemethod,
computationsoffullydevelopedturbulentflowsinaplanechannelwithapermeable
bottomwallaty/H =0andasolidtopwallaty/H =1(seeFigure9.18a)areshown
here. The considered flow conditions are the same as those in the DNS [33]. The
mean diameter of the particle composing the permeable beds is d
p
/H =0.01 and
their porosity areϕ =0.95,0.80,0.60,0.00.The permeability and the Forchheimer
termarethenobtainedbyequations(52)and(53).ThebulkflowReynoldsnumberis
Re
b
=5,500inallthecases.Theroughnessheightisconsideredtobeh=d
p
inthis
practice.Thegridcellnumberusedisonly10inthewallnormaldirectionduetothe
use of the wall-function approach for such relatively low Reynolds number flows.
The turbulencemodels usedare the standardk-ε model[4] and thetwo-component
limit (TCL) second moment closure of Craft and Launder [39].
Figure 9.19a compares the mean velocity distribution inside the porous walls.
The obtained velocity profiles are from equation (60). Whilst there can be seen