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== Spatial and temporal resolution, grids ==
== Spatial and temporal resolution, grids ==
The domain is discretised into <math>62\times29\times60</math> hexahedral elements. For a polynomial order of 5, this yields 174 solution points in the transverse direction and about <math>23\times10^6</math> in total. The grid is uniform in the spanwise and streamwise directions, but clustered near the walls in transverse direction. Iyer et al. (2019)<ref name="iyer2019">'''A. Iyer, F. D. Witherden, S. I. Chernyshenko and P. E. Vincent''', Identifying eigenmodes of averaged small-amplitude perturbations to turbulent channel flow, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 875 (758-780), 2019</ref> observed that the grid resolution and polynomial order used in these calculations are sufficient enough to guarantee mesh independence of velocity statistics.  
The domain is discretised into <math>62\times29\times60</math> hexahedral elements. For a polynomial order of 5, this yields 174 solution points in the transverse direction and about <math>23\times10^6</math> in total. The grid is uniform in the spanwise and streamwise directions, but clustered near the walls in transverse direction. Iyer et al. (2019)<ref name="iyer2019">'''A. Iyer, F. D. Witherden, S. I. Chernyshenko and P. E. Vincent''', Identifying eigenmodes of averaged small-amplitude perturbations to turbulent channel flow, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 875 (758-780), 2019</ref> observed that the grid resolution and polynomial order used in these calculations are sufficient enough to guarantee mesh independence of velocity statistics. The resolution is also sufficient to accurately capture the linear dependence of <math>u^+</math> on <math>y^+</math> and the log law as seen in the figure. There is also good agreement in the inner, transition and outer layers with the results of Moser et al. (1999)<ref name="moser99"> '''R. D. Moser, J. Kim, J. and N. N. Mansour''', Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow up to <math>Re_\tau=590</math>, Physics of Fluids, 11 (4), 1999</ref> that is shown in the same figure.
 
[[File:Channel_average_u.png|center|Averaged streamwise velocity profile in the turbulent channel compared with the results of Moser et al. (1999)]]


An explicit RK45 scheme is used to advance the solution in time. The order of accuracy of the solution changes as a function of time, as discussed in Witherden et al. (2014)<ref name="witherden2014"/>. The grid used for the simulations is available on the [http://kbwiki-data.s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/DNS-1/2/Channel_180/Channel-180.pyfrm ERCOFTAC database].
An explicit RK45 scheme is used to advance the solution in time. The order of accuracy of the solution changes as a function of time, as discussed in Witherden et al. (2014)<ref name="witherden2014"/>. The grid used for the simulations is available on the [http://kbwiki-data.s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/DNS-1/2/Channel_180/Channel-180.pyfrm ERCOFTAC database].
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Computational approach

The computations are performed using PyFR version 1.12.0, a python based framework for solving advection-diffusion type problems using the Flux Reconstruction approach of Huynh. The details of the numerical approach are available here[1].


Spatial and temporal resolution, grids

The domain is discretised into hexahedral elements. For a polynomial order of 5, this yields 174 solution points in the transverse direction and about in total. The grid is uniform in the spanwise and streamwise directions, but clustered near the walls in transverse direction. Iyer et al. (2019)[2] observed that the grid resolution and polynomial order used in these calculations are sufficient enough to guarantee mesh independence of velocity statistics. The resolution is also sufficient to accurately capture the linear dependence of on and the log law as seen in the figure. There is also good agreement in the inner, transition and outer layers with the results of Moser et al. (1999)[3] that is shown in the same figure.

Averaged streamwise velocity profile in the turbulent channel compared with the results of Moser et al. (1999)

An explicit RK45 scheme is used to advance the solution in time. The order of accuracy of the solution changes as a function of time, as discussed in Witherden et al. (2014)[1]. The grid used for the simulations is available on the ERCOFTAC database.

Computation of statistical quantities

PyFR computes volumetric time average quantities by accumulating averages every 50 time steps over a prescribed time period, which is 100 time units for the channel flow simulations. The average calculation is started after 3000 convective time unit in windowed mode. The outputs from the different averaging windows are then combined together.

In the case of channel flow, averages are further reduced to one-dimensional data by spatial averaging in the homogeneous streamwise and spanwise directions.


  1. 1.0 1.1 F.D. Witherden, A.M. Farrington and P.E. Vincent, PyFR: An open source framework for solving advection–diffusion type problems on streaming architectures using the flux reconstruction approach, Computer Physics Communications, 185 (3028-2040), 2014
  2. A. Iyer, F. D. Witherden, S. I. Chernyshenko and P. E. Vincent, Identifying eigenmodes of averaged small-amplitude perturbations to turbulent channel flow, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 875 (758-780), 2019
  3. R. D. Moser, J. Kim, J. and N. N. Mansour, Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow up to , Physics of Fluids, 11 (4), 1999


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