Coherent structures of the flow around a surface-mounted cubic obstacle in turbulent channel flow

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 495-511

  Alfonsi, Giancarlo ^a   Restanto, Carlo ^b   Primavera, Leonardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coherent structures; Large eddy simulation; Navier Stokes equations; Proper orthogonal decomposition; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; KINETIC ENERGY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; WIND EFFECTS;

FINITE VOLUME COMPUTATIONAL CODES;

TURBULENT FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW AROUND OBJECT; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0037370984     PISSN: 01676105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6105(02)00429-4     Document Type: Article

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