Transition Modeling in FLOWer - Transition Prescription and Prediction

Kurzfassung

This paper summarizes the developments of transition prescription and transition prediction techniques which were implemented into the DLR Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) solver FLOWer in the framework of the DLR projects MEGAFLOW and MEGAFLOW II and the German research project MEGAFLOW. The very basic transition handling functionalities which FLOWer provided before the projects started were generalized in order to prescribe arbitrary transition lines on very complex aircraft geometries with different components, such as wings, fuselages or nacelles. A number of transition prediction methods were incorporated into the code and an infrastructure was built up in order to handle the underlying transition prediction strategy which results in an iteration process within the solution process of the RANS equations. Finally, physical models for the modeling of transitional flow were implemented and tested.