Abstract | This paper aims at extending a recent high-order code verification methodology to curved wall-bounded domains as well as to realistic turbulent flows such as the flat plate boundary layer modelled by the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. Two new manufactured solutions (MSs) are introduced with demonstrated ability to verify the treatment of slip and no-slip boundary conditions in high-order frameworks on curved domains. These MSs serve as well to discuss the impact of the method of computation of boundary normals on the order of accuracy (OOA) of the solution at the wall. Furthermore, two turbulent boundary layer MSs from literature, devised to mimic the genuine features of RANS-modelled flows in the vicinity of wall, are compared in terms of their suitability to achieving high-order accuracy. A number of useful concepts in verification are explored through these cases such as the limit values of the Spalart-Allmaras (SA) turbulence model source terms at the wall, the verification of the modified vorticity term of the negative SA model, the grid sensitivity of wall-bounded turbulent flows, the inadequacy of substituting solution verification to code verification and the effect of non-dimensionalization of the solution on the minimization of iterative errors via residual convergence. In all cases, demonstrations are carried for orders of accuracy up to the sixth. |
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