Backward facing step

About this project

The purpose here is to provide a validation case for turbulence models. Unlike verification, which seeks to establish that a model has been implemented correctly, validation compares CFD results against data in an effort to establish a model's ability to reproduce physics. A large sequence of nested grids of the same family are provided here if desired. Data are also provided for comparison. For this particular essentially incompressible backward facing step problem, the data are from an experiment.