A new second-moment closure approach for turbulent swirling confined flows

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 133-150

  Lu, Pisi ^a   Semiao, Viriato ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anisotropic dissipation; Computational fluid dynamics; Pressure strain model; Reynolds stress transport model; Swirling flows; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; STRAIN; TENSORS; TURBULENT FLOW;

TURBULENT SWIRLING;

CONFINED FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONFINED SPACE; DISSIPATION; REYNOLDS STRESS; SWIRLING FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0037455060     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.430     Document Type: Article

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