Assessment of numerical accuracy of pdf/monte carlo methods for turbulent reacting flows

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 192-230

  Xu, J ^a   Pope, S B ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical convergence; PDF Monte Carlo methods; Turbulent reactive flows

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERRORS; MESH GENERATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; MONTECARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL CONVERGENCE; NUMERICAL ERRORS; NUMERICAL PARAMETERS; PDF/MONTE CARLO METHOD; REACTIVE FLOW; STATISTICAL ERRORS; TIME STEP; TURBULENT REACTIVE FLOW;

TURBULENCE MODELS;

EID: 0001573260     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6241     Document Type: Article

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