Numerical study on air-core vortex inside draining tank using different computational modelling approaches

Abstract

Accurate numerical simulation of liquid draining is important to study the physics fluid flow. However, liquid draining involves multiphase and rotational flows, where numerical simulation is expensive to accurately recreate these flow behaviors. The accuracy of numerical results has been also debatable and it is mainly affected by the computational modeling approaches. Therefore, this study evaluates different computational modelling approaches such as DNS, RANS k-ε, RANS k-ω and LES turbulence models. The results for the draining time and flow visualization of the generation of an air-core are in a good agreement with the available published data. The Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) seems most reasonably satisfactory for VOF studies relating air-core compared to other different turbulence modeling approaches.