On the application of congruent upwind discretizations for large eddy simulations

Upwind schemes were judged inappropriate for performing accurate large eddy simulations of turbulent flow owing to the artificial dissipation that is present at high wavenumbers of the energy content. Such a conclusion has been drawn also from some results obtained by adopting Finite Difference schemes. The present paper illustrates the performances of some new Finite Volume upwind discretization of the convective terms in the case of the 1-D Burgers model equation while studying the effects of numerical discretization on several Sub-Grid Scales turbulence models, starting from the classical static and dynamic eddy viscosity models through the recent deconvolution-based ones. Basing on previously published papers, large eddy simulations along with a deconvolution-based procedure for de-filtering the evolving variable, have been originally developed and applied. It will be shown how the coherent application of the procedure allows us to develop high-order accurate Finite Volume upwind schemes, which maintain a good spectral resolution in the entire range of resolved scale. Such schemes can be candidate for performing accurate simulations of real turbulence. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.