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A posteriori analysis of low-pass spatial filters for approximate deconvolution large eddy simulations of homogeneous incompressible flows

Omer San·Anne E. Staples·Traian Iliescu
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The goal of this paper is twofold: first, it investigates the effect of low-pass spatial filters for approximate deconvolution large eddy simulation (AD-LES) of turbulent incompressible flows. Second, it proposes the hyper-differential filter as a means of increasing the accuracy of the AD-LES model without increasing the computational cost. Box filters, Padé filters, and differential filters with a wide range of parameters are studied in the AD-LES framework. The AD-LES model, in conjunction with these spatial filters, is tested in the numerical simulation of the three-dimensional Taylor-Green vortex problem. The numerical results are benchmarked against direct numerical simulation (DNS) data. An under-resolved numerical simulation is also used for comparison purposes. Four criteria are used to investigate the AD-LES model equipped with these spatial filters: (i) the time series of the volume-averaged enstrophy; (ii) the volume-averaged third-order structure function; (iii) the $L^2$-norm of the velocity and vorticity errors; and (iv) the volume-averaged velocity and vorticity correlation coefficients. According to these criteria, the numerical results yield the following two conclusions: first, the AD-LES model equipped with any of these spatial filters yields accurate results at a fraction of the computational cost of DNS. Second, the most accurate results are obtained with the hyper-differential filter, followed by the differential filter. We demonstrate that the results highly depend on the selection of the filtering procedure. Although a careful parameter choice makes each class of filters used in this study competitive, it seems that filters whose transfer function resembles that of the Fourier cut-off filter (such as the hyper-differential filters) tend to perform best.

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Omer San, Anne E. Staples, Traian Iliescu. 2014-01-23. A posteriori analysis of low-pass spatial filters for approximate deconvolution large eddy simulations of homogeneous incompressible flows. https://doi.org/10.1080/10618562.2014.991391

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