Direct numerical simulation of a passive scalar with imposed mean gradient in isotropic turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3128-3148

  Overholt, M R ^a   Pope, S B ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ENERGY SPECTRUM; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT SIMULATION; PASSIVE SCALAR MIXING; REGRESSION SMOOTHING;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0030291789     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869099     Document Type: Article

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