On numerical errors and turbulence modeling in tip vortex flow prediction

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-82

  Dacles Mariani, Jennifer ^a,b   Kwak, Dochan ^b   Zilliac, Gregory ^b  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Incompressible flow; Navier Stokes equations; Tip vortex flow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS;

BALDWIN-BARTH TURBULENCE MODEL; SPALART-ALLMARAS TURBULENCE MODEL; TIP VORTEX FLOW;

VORTEX FLOW;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE; VORTEX; WING;

EID: 0033562136     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(19990515)30:1<65::AID-FLD839>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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