Guillas, S;
Glover, N;
Malki-Epshtein, L;
(2014)
Bayesian calibration of the constants of the k-epsilon turbulence model for a CFD model of street canyon flow.
COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING
, 279
536 - 553.
10.1016/j.cma.2014.06.008.
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Abstract
In this paper we carry out a Bayesian calibration for uncertainty analysis in Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling of urban flows. Taking the case of airflow in a regular street canyon, and choosing turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) as our quantity of interest, we calibrate 3-D CFD simulations against wind tunnel observations. We focus our calibration on the model constants contained within the standard RANS kk–εε turbulence model and the uncertainties relating to these values. Thus we are able to narrow down the space of kk–εε model constants which provide the best match with experimental data and quantify the uncertainty relating to both the kk–εε model constants in the case of street canyon flow and the TKE outputs of the CFD simulation. Furthermore, we are able to construct a statistical emulator of the CFD model. Finally, we provide predictions of TKE based on the emulator and the estimated bias between model and observations, accompanied with uncertainties in these predictions.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Bayesian calibration of the constants of the k-epsilon turbulence model for a CFD model of street canyon flow |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cma.2014.06.008 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2014.06.008 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Copyright 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
Keywords: | Uncertainty quantification, Emulation, Computational fluid dynamics, Turbulence modelling, k-epsilon model |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Statistical Science |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1431827 |
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