Numerical simulation of the industrial test case

Beside the experimental validation of PIV in an industrial environment, it was important to assess the interest of PIV results for validation and improvement of numerical simulations developed by the aeronautic industry. As PIV provides both instantaneous and mean velocity maps, it was interesting to perform averaged computations using turbulence models but also unsteady computations. In fact, computations were used both before the experimental tests, as a design tool to find the best flow configurations, and after them to perform comparisons with the experimental results.