Acceleration of RANS Solver Convergence via Initialization with Wake Extension Models

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Auteurs principaux: Fuchi, Kazuko W., Wolf, Eric M., Schrock, Christopher R., Beran, Philip S.
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author Fuchi, Kazuko W.
Wolf, Eric M.
Schrock, Christopher R.
Beran, Philip S.
author_facet Fuchi, Kazuko W.
Wolf, Eric M.
Schrock, Christopher R.
Beran, Philip S.
contents Use of appropriate initialization to warm-start Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations of turbulent flow can facilitate convergence and lead to efficient use of computational resources. In this work, a method to model downstream wake development in external turbulent flow is proposed and used for RANS solver convergence acceleration. To balance the model accuracy and cost, the proposed method divides the analysis domain into three regions: near-body, wake and off-body. An approach based on a convolutional neural network is introduced as an efficient method to predict the downstream wake development. The model training only requires data from a single simulation, and its use is demonstrated to be effective in accelerating the RANS simulation when combined with an accurate flow prediction in the near-body region. The simulation using the proposed method took 26.3x fewer iterations, achieving 16.4x speedup in wall-clock time, compared to a baseline run using freestream initialization.
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spellingShingle Acceleration of RANS Solver Convergence via Initialization with Wake Extension Models
Fuchi, Kazuko W.
Wolf, Eric M.
Schrock, Christopher R.
Beran, Philip S.
Fluid Dynamics
Numerical Analysis
Computational Physics
Use of appropriate initialization to warm-start Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations of turbulent flow can facilitate convergence and lead to efficient use of computational resources. In this work, a method to model downstream wake development in external turbulent flow is proposed and used for RANS solver convergence acceleration. To balance the model accuracy and cost, the proposed method divides the analysis domain into three regions: near-body, wake and off-body. An approach based on a convolutional neural network is introduced as an efficient method to predict the downstream wake development. The model training only requires data from a single simulation, and its use is demonstrated to be effective in accelerating the RANS simulation when combined with an accurate flow prediction in the near-body region. The simulation using the proposed method took 26.3x fewer iterations, achieving 16.4x speedup in wall-clock time, compared to a baseline run using freestream initialization.
title Acceleration of RANS Solver Convergence via Initialization with Wake Extension Models
topic Fluid Dynamics
Numerical Analysis
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14699