Four direct numerical simulations of fully developed flow at different Reynolds numbers in a plane channel have been performed with POONGBACK code which uses the spectral numerical method of Kim, Moin and Moser (J. Fluid Mech. vol 177, page 133). The friction Reynolds numbers of the simulations are 180, 550, 1000, 2000 and 5200. The data may be added to from time to time and corrections will be made if needed.
A comprehensive set of statistical data has been collected from these simulations and is available. It includes mean, Reynolds stress, terms in the Reynolds stress transport equations, etc. The data is in a series of text files.
Acknowledgment
When publishing results obtained using the channel flow fields provided here, we ask you to cite the data source through the following publications.
- Myoungkyu Lee and Robert D. Moser “Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow up to Re_tau = 5200,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015, vol. 774, pp. 395-415 https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2015.268
Reference for simulation detail
- Data analysis :
Myoungkyu Lee and Robert D. Moser “Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow up to Re_tau = 5200,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015, vol. 774, pp. 395-415, https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2015.268
- Code development & Optimization :
Myoungkyu Lee, Nicholas Malaya, and Robert D. Moser, 2013, “Petascale direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow on up to 786K cores,” Proc. SC13: Int’l Conf. for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis,
https://doi.org/10.1145/2503210.2503298
- Code verification, I/O, & Running simulation :
Myoungkyu Lee, Rhys Ulerich, Nicholas Malaya, and Robert D. Moser, “Experiences from Leadership Computing in Simulations of Turbulent Fluid Flows,” Computing in Sci & Eng, 2014, vol 16, issue 5, pp. 24-31, https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2014.51
- Uncertainty estimation :
Todd Oliver, Nicholas Malaya, Rhys Ulerich, Robert D. Moser, 2014, “Estimating uncertainties in statistics computed from direct numerical simulation,” Physics of Fluids, 2014, vol 26, pp. 035101, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4866813
Preparing the data was supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Number [OCI-0749223] and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory under Early Science Program (ESP) and Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment Program (INCITE) 2013.
List of statistics
Statistics in the following list are included in this directory.
- Mean profile of velocity and pressure
- (Co)Variances of velocity components
- Variances of vorticity components
- Velocity pressure correlation
- Terms in Reynolds stress transport equation (RSTE)