Comparative Performance Assessment between Incompressible and Compressible Solvers to Simulate a Cavitating Wake
Fluids, ISSN: 2311-5521, Vol: 9, Issue: 9
2024
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To study the effects of fluid compressibility on the dynamics of a cavitating vortex street flow in a regime where the vortex shedding frequency increases as a result of the cavitation increase, the cavitating wake behind a wedge was simulated employing both incompressible and compressible solvers. To do this, a compressible cavitation model was implemented, modifying the Zwart-Gerber-Belamri (ZGB) incompressible solver and including a pressure limit and absorbing boundary conditions to prevent a non-physical pressure field. To validate the performance of the compressible model, preliminary simulations were carried out on a 1D Sod cavitating tube and the cavitating vortex shedding behind a circular body at laminar flow conditions. The results of the cavitating wake behind the wedge with the incompressible and the compressible solvers showed similar predictions in terms of pressure, vortex shedding frequency, and instantaneous and average vapor volume fraction profiles. In spite of this, differences were obtained in the energy content of the fluid force fluctuations on the body at higher frequencies, which appear to be better resolved and amplified when the compressibility model is considered. Overall, both solvers provided comparable results in terms of cavitation phenomena that are well aligned with experimental observations.
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