水翼非定常空化流动中湍流模型研究

(西安航天动力研究所 液体火箭发动机重点实验室,陕西 西安 710100)

水翼; 空化流动; 非定常; 湍流模型; MFBM

Study on turbulent model of unsteady cavitating flow around hydrofoil
LI Yumeng, CHEN Hui, XIANG Le, ZHANG Yatai

(Science and Technology on Liquid Rocket Engine Laboratory, Xi'an Aerospace Propulsion Institute,Xi'an 710100, China)

hydrofoil; cavitating flow; unsteady; turbulence model; MFBM

备注

为了改进常规RANS方法中标准k-ε模型过渡预测流场涡黏性的问题,对几种标准k-ε模型的修正模型在空化流动的模拟中进行了应用评价,将修正后的湍流模型以二次开发的形式嵌入至商用CFD软件中,对某二维翼型表面空化流动进行了非定常数值仿真。结果 表明:采用MFBM模型计算得到的翼型升力系数频率与实验偏差最小,达到0.6%; 翼型表面非定常空化形态与实验结果最接近,具备最佳的计算效果。同时基于计算结果揭示了翼型表面非定常空化流动的产生机理,发现逆压梯度引起的反向射流作用导致空化云脱落,脱落后的空化云溃灭会改变翼型表面压力分布,造成空化云周期性脱落,进一步导致翼型升力系数周期性变化。

In order to improve the standard k-ε turbulent model in traditional RANS method over-predicting the eddy viscosity, this paper evaluates the application of several modified approaches used to reduce the eddy viscosity in cavitating flow.The modified turbulent models are employed in the commercial CFD software to simulate the unsteady cavitating flow around a 2D hydrofoil.It is found that the error of lift coefficient calculated by the MFBM model is only 0.6% and it is the smallest compared with the experimental results.In addition, the unsteady cavitation morphology calculated by MFBM is the closest to the experiment data, which indicates that MFBM has the best simulation effect.At the same time, based on the computation results, the mechanism of unsteady cavitating flow around a hydrofoil is revealed, and the reverse jet caused by the adverse pressure gradient results in the shedding of cloud cavitation.The shedded cloud cavitation collapses and changes the pressure distribution around the hydrofoil, which causes the periodic shedding of cloud cavitation and further leads to the periodically change of lift coefficient.