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NOTE: this page and its links have been updated to reflect an extension of the grid's farfield extent
to 500c. The old results (with farfield wake extend of 20C) have been deprecated.
The purpose here is to provide a large sequence of nested grids of the same family, along with results from
existing CFD codes that employ specific forms of particular turbulence models, in order to help programmers
verify their implementations of these same models. On a given grid, there may be differences between the
results from different codes, but presumably as the grid is refined the results should approach the same
answer (if the flow conditions and boundary conditions are the same). With verification, the purpose is not to
establish the "goodness" of a model compared to experiment, but rather to establish that a model has been
implemented correctly, as intended according to the equations and boundary conditions. (It is through
validation that a model's "goodness" is established.) The purpose here is primarily verification.

The 2-D airfoil near-wake case involves flow over an airfoil. Experiment exists for this case, but the main
purpose here (for verification) is NOT comparison with experiment. Comparison with experiment for this case
can be found under the validation section, at the 2DANW: 2D Airfoil Near-Wake page. This case was run fully
turbulent at angle of attack of zero degrees, M = 0.088, and a Reynolds number of Re = 1.2 million based on
airfoil chord length. The outer boundary of the grid in this case is 500c from the airfoil, where farfield Riemann
boundary conditions are imposed.

Earlier results with a grid with only 20c farfield extent are no longer "official" because specific implementation
differences in the farfield boundary condition may have a significant influence the comparisons with the
reference results. (Note: the main influence of the too-close farfield extent in our tests was on the CL.)

Note that the current set of grids for this case were based on airfoil coordinates extracted from the reference:
Nakayama, A., "Characteristics of the Flow around Conventional and Supercritical Airfoils," J. Fluid Mech.
(1985), Vol. 160, pp. 155-179. The airfoil is a DSMA661(MODEL A). The airfoil shape does not have an
analytic definition; the original airfoil point definition can be found in DSMA661 original point definition. The
original airfoil has a blunt trailing edge, but this has been altered to be sharp for the purposes of this study.
Also, as created, the current grids display some non-smoothness on the surface. Therefore, for the purpose of
verification, you must use these same grids, or else create grids with exactly the same airfoil surface shape.
The as-created airfoil surface points (from the finest grid) are given in DSMA661 as-created point definition.

Another important note: although M=0.088 is low enough that the flow is "essentially" incompressible, this is a
compressible flow verification case. Therefore, if you run this case with an incompressible code, your results
may be close - but not quite the same - as the grid is refined.

This case was used as a verification test case for High Lift Prediction Workshop 3 (HiLiftPW-3).
However, the case run for the workshop used the earlier version with farfield extent of 20c.

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GRIDS

What to Expect:
RESULTS LINK TO EQUATIONS MRR Level

SA SA eqns 4

SST SST eqns 3

(Other turbulence model results may be added in the future.)

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