Direct numerical simulation of decaying compressible turbulence and shocklet statistics

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1415-1430

  Samtaney, Ravi ^a   Pullin, D I ^a   Kosović, Branko ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETIC ENERGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; MACH NUMBERS; TAYLOR-REYNOLDS NUMBER;

TURBULENT FLOW;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; SHOCK WAVE; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0035337634     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1355682     Document Type: Article

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