Modeling and simulation in supersonic three-temperature carbon dioxide turbulent channel flow

TL;DR

This study develops a high-accuracy DNS method to analyze supersonic three-temperature CO2 turbulent flow, revealing significant effects on heat transfer, turbulence characteristics, and mode interactions, providing a benchmark for future research.

Contribution

It introduces a novel extended three-temperature BGK model and a high-accuracy gas-kinetic scheme for simulating supersonic CO2 turbulence with thermal non-equilibrium effects.

Findings

Supersonic three-temperature CO2 turbulence increases wall heat transfer by ~20%.

Thermal non-equilibrium suppresses turbulence intensities and Reynolds stress.

Vibrational modes behave differently from rotational and translational modes.

Abstract

This paper pioneers the direct numerical simulation (DNS) and physical analysis in supersonic three-temperature carbon dioxide (CO2) turbulent channel flow. CO2 is a linear and symmetric triatomic molecular, with the thermal non-equilibrium three-temperature effects arising from the interactions among translational, rotational and vibrational modes under room temperature. Thus, the rotational and vibrational modes of CO2 are addressed. Thermal non-equilibrium effect of CO2 has been modeled in an extended three-temperature BGK-type model, with the calibrated translational, rotational and vibrational relaxation time. To solve the extended BGK-type equation accurately and robustly, non-equilibrium high-accuracy gas-kinetic scheme is proposed within the well-established two-stage fourth-order framework. Compared with the one-temperature supersonic turbulent channel flow, supersonic three-temperature CO2 turbulence enlarges the ensemble heat transfer of the wall by approximate 20%, and slightly decreases the ensemble frictional force. The ensemble density and temperature fields are greatly affected, and there is little change in Van Driest transformation of streamwise velocity. The thermal non-equilibrium three-temperature effects of CO2 also suppress the peak of normalized root-mean-square of density and temperature, normalized turbulent intensities and Reynolds stress. The vibrational modes of CO2 behave quite differently with rotational and translational modes. Compared with the vibrational temperature fields, the rotational temperature fields have the higher similarity with translational temperature fields, especially in temperature amplitude. Current thermal non-equilibrium models, high-accuracy DNS and physical analysis in supersonic CO2 turbulent flow can act as the benchmark for the long-term applicability of compressible CO2 turbulence.