Development of an Unsteady Aerodynamic Simulator Using Large-Eddy Simulation Based on High-Performance Computing Technique
Date Published: 2009-04-20
Paper Number:2009-01-0007
DOI: 10.4271/2009-01-0007
Citation:
Tsubokura, M., Nakashima, T., Kitoh, K., Sasaki, Y. et al., "Development of an Unsteady Aerodynamic Simulator Using Large-Eddy Simulation Based on High-Performance Computing Technique," SAE Int. J. Passeng. Cars - Mech. Syst. 2(1):168-178, 2009, doi:10.4271/2009-01-0007.
A numerical method specially designed to predict unsteady aerodynamics of road vehicle was developed based on unstructured Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) technique. The code was intensively optimized for the Earth Simulator in Japan to deal with the excessive computational resources required for LES, and could treat numerical meshes of up to around 120 million elements. Moving boundary methods such as the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) or the sliding method were implemented to handle dynamic motion of a vehicle body during aerodynamic assessment. The method can also model a gusty crosswind condition. The method was applied to three cases in which unsteady aerodynamics are expected to be crucial.
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