Spectral Analysis of LBM-LES Numerical Data on Lid-Driven Cavity
Résumé
The lid-driven cavity is an important fluid mechanical system work for as a benchmark
for testing numerical methods and for examining fundamental aspects of incompress-
ible flows in confined volumes which are driven by the tangential motion of the bounding
wall. A numerical study is provided of lid-Driven cavity flows focusing on the evolution
of the flow for high Reynolds number. Spectral analysis and a fluctuation velocity are
performed on the numerical data obtained from the Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and
large-eddy simulation (LES) of the turbulent flow. The analyzed data or signals are picked
at two specific points inside the cavity, allowing investigating three drastically different
flow regimes over time: laminar, transitional, and turbulent. In comparison with direct
numerical simulation, the LBM-LES model not only has a reduced resolution in space but
also in time. In this context, the background of LBM is presented and the construction
of Navier-Stokes equations from the Boltzmann equation is discussed. The LBM-LES
model for solving transition is developed and turbulence modeling is implemented. In
the second part, a Fourier transform is chosen to study signals from LBM-LES model, to
provide a local analysis of transient turbulent events