Reassessment of the wall functions approach for RANS computations

Aerospace Science and Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-14

  Goncalves, Eric ^a   Houdeville, Robert ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

Navier Stokes; Turbulence models; Wall functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035628623     PISSN: 12709638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1270-9638(00)01083-X     Document Type: Article

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