Modeling of the fluctuations and the frequency-spectra of reactants in turbulent scalar mixing layers

Chemical Engineering Communications

Volumn 154, Issue , 1996, Pages 147-181

  Sabini, G J ^a   Shieh, G S ^a   Givi, P ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct numerical simulation; Probability density function; Spectral density function; Statistical modeling; Turbulent reacting flows

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

DAMKOHLER NUMBER; PEARSON FAMILY (PF); SPECTRAL DENSITY FUNCTION; TURBULENT REACTIVE MIXING LAYERS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0030398729     PISSN: 00986445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00986449608936650     Document Type: Article

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