Experimental and Numerical Investigations Using Lattice Boltzmann Method to Study Shedding Vortices in an Unsteady Confined Flow Around an Obstacle

Abstract

Lattice Boltzmann equation with Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook (BGK) model is applied to simulate unsteady laminar flow around a confined square obstacle, in order to study the vortex shedding and their interaction in the flow on the mass transfer in the parietal zone of a channel. The model was tested by comparing to an experimental study via standard particle image velocimetry (PIV). A postprocessing was used to well extract instantaneous vortices contained in the flow downstream obstacles. A sensor with zero concentration on the surface is placed on the channel wall to study the effect of wake instabilities on the parietal mass transfer.