TY - JOUR
TI - Numerical analysis of axisymmetric turbulent swirling flow in circular pipe
AU - Ćoćić Aleksandar S
AU - Lečić Milan R
AU - Čantrak Svetislav
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2014
VL - 18
IS - 2
SP - 493
EP - 505
PT - Article
AB - In this paper, turbulent swirling flow in circular pipe is numerically  investigated using OpenFOAM, an open-source CFD software. Flow is computed as  2D axisymmetric, with various turbulent models, but with main accent on  computations with Reynolds stress transport models. Two Reynolds stress  models were used in computations: Launder-Gibson (LG) and  Speziale-Sarkar-Gatski (SSG) models. Previous author’s experimental results  are used as a validation tool for numerical computations. It was shown that  standard two-equation models can’t predict the flow in right manner, while  the Reynolds stress models give good prediction of mean velocities. As a part of research SSG model is implemented in OpenFOAM code. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. TR-35046]