Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flow over a backward-facing step

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 330, Issue , 1997, Pages 349-374

  Le, Hung ^a   Moin, Parviz ^a   Kim, John ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DIFFUSION; FRICTION; MIXING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

BACKWARD FACING STEP; EXPANSION RATIO; FREE STREAM VELOCITY; INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY; KINETIC ENERGY; REYNOLDS STRESS; SHEAR LAYER; SKIN FRICTION; STROUHAL NUMBER;

TURBULENT FLOW;

NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS STRESSES; SIMULATION-NUMERICAL; STEPS(SURFACE STRUCTURES); TURBULENT FLOW;

BACKWARD-FACING STEP; FLOW MODELLING; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0030799878     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096003941     Document Type: Article

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