Assessment of the URANS algorithm in unsteady turbulence modeling of a jet in cross flow

The main goal of the present paper is development of the unsteady turbulence modeling using the URANS algorithm and preservation of numerical performance and assessment of this method respect to the RANS model in numerical simulation of a sonic jet in supersonic cross flow. The turbulence modeling used in both algorithms is the Spalart Almaras model. To improve accuracy of the computations, the structured multi block grid is used and to decrease the computational cost, the OMP parallel processing is applied. In this paper, firstly, the governing equations of both the RANS and URANS are described and then the developed code is used to analyze a 3D jet in cross flow. The results including flow structure, distribution of the pressure and velocity profile are compared with experimental data. The URANS method show more accurate results than the RANS model in numerical simulation of the sonic jet in supersonic cross flow.