Prediction of flow patterns in local scour holes caused by turbulent water jets

The paper describes a testing procedure for investigating the suitability of the FLUENT CFD package in simulating flow patterns, generated by a turbulent water jet impinging on rigid horizontal and scoured beds. The scoured beds were formed at various times of the scouring process. The three turbulence closure models incorporated in FLUENT are:the Standard k-M Model, the Reynolds Stress Model and the ReNormalisation Group Theory-Based Model. Results obtained using these models were examined. In general, flowfields, velocities and shear stresses predicted by FLUENT showed close agreement with relevant experimental results.