Research Article

Anisotropic Characteristics of Turbulence Dissipation in Swirling Flow: A Direct Numerical Simulation Study

Table 1

Typical real values of variables used in the numerical simulation.

Scales of the flow domain (mm) 20 * 10 * 10
Scale of jet diameter (mm)1.0
Grids number 512 * 256 * 256
Scale of resolution (m)39
Mean inlet axial velocity (m/s)71.71
Fluid density (kg/m3)1.29
Fluid viscosity (Pa⋅s)1.85 * 10−5
Inflow momentum thickness (/d)1/20
Reynolds number Re5000
Swirl number S Case 1: 0.28;
Case 2: 0.45;
Case 3: 0.59;
Time step 0.001
Number of simulation step 20000