Comparison of Convective Schemes in Hydrogen Impinging Jet CFD Simulation

Hydrogen impinging jets can be formed in the case of an accidental release indoors or outdoors. The CFD simulation of hydrogen impinging jets suffers from numerical errors resulting in a non-physical velocity and hydrogen concentration field with a butterfly like structure. In order to minimize the numerical errors and to avoid the butterfly effect, high order schemes need to be used. The aim of this work is to give best practices guidelines for hydrogen impinging jet simulations. A number of different numerical schemes is evaluated. The number of cells which discretize the source is also examined.