본 연구에서는 원형 파이프에 원추형 디퓨져가 연결된 덕트 내의 유동장에 대 하여 Launder-Sharma의 저 레이놀즈수 k-.epsilon. 난류모델을 이용하여 수치해석을 수행하였 으며, 수치해석 방법으로는 타원형 방법을 사용하였으며, 앞으로 일반적인 단면의 곡 관이나 스크롤 내부 유동 등의 연구 수행을 감안하여 지배방정식을 일반 비직교 좌표 계로 변환하여 계산을 수행하였다.
A turbulent flow in a conical diffuser with total divergence angle of 8.deg. was numerically studied. The low Reynolds number k-.epsilon. model(Launder-Sharma model) was adopted to simulate the turbulence. The continuity and time averaged Navier-Stokes equations in a nonorthogonal coordinate system were solved by a finite volume method based on the fully elliptic formulation. The low Reynolds number k-.epsilon. model reasonably simulates the pressure recovery and the mean velocity components. However, there are also considerable discrepancies between predicted and measured shear stress distribution on the wall and turbulent kinetic energy distributions. It is necessary to investigate the flow structure at the entry of the diffuser, numerically as well as experimentally.
