简介:Ingasturbineengines,laminar-turbulenttransitionoccurs.However,generally,theturbulencemodelstodescribesuchtransitionresultsintooearlyandtooshorttransition.Combiningaturbulencemodelwithadescriptionofintermittency,i.e.thefractionoftimetheflowisturbulentduringthetransitionphase,canimproveit.Bylettinggrowtheintermittencyfromzerotounity,startandevolutionoftransitioncanbeimposed.Inthispaper,amethodwhereadynamicequationofintermittencycombiningwithatwo-equationk-ωturbulencemodelisdescribed.Thisintermittencyfactorisapremultiplicatoroftheturbulentviscositycomputedbytheturbulencemodel.FollowingasuggestionbyMenteretal.[1],thestartoftransitioniscomputedbasedonlocalvariables.