Abstract
Particle-laden turbulent flows occur in various natural and industrial processes, highlighting the need for a comprehensive understanding of the interaction between the dispersed phase and the carrier flow. This study investigates the fluid dynamics of a simplified car side-view mirror model, experimentally analyzed using the particle tracking velocimetry technique in the laboratories of Delft University of Technology. Experimental measurements are used to validate a computational fluid dynamics model developed in the OpenFOAM environment. The overall objective of the research is to establish a benchmark for validating Eulerian–Lagrangian numerical models in terms of both flow dynamics and particle trajectories. In this study, the validation is limited to the Eulerian fields; validation of the discrete-phase modeling will be addressed in future work.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 47-56 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Computational Thermal Sciences |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2025 |
Bibliographical note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository as part of the Taverne amendment. More information about this copyright law amendment can be found at https://www.openaccess.nl. Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Keywords
- computational fluid dynamics
- Lagrangian particle tracking
- side mirror aerodynamic