The master thesis of David Roos Launchbury deals with the implementation and validation of a
numerical solver for incompressible large eddy simulation (LES) with heat transfer in OpenFOAM.
Academic and industrial cases ranging from flow between parallel plates to film cooling are
investigated utilising existing and newly-implemented turbulence models. Simulations using no
turbulence models i.e. under-resolved DNS (UDNS) simulations are performed for comparison.
Very good results are obtained in all cases with variations among the individual models with
the UDNS simulations performing surprisingly well. The study shows that the developed software
is able to simulate complex cases reliably and accurately.
