Turbulence modeling applied to flow over a sphere

AIAA Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1733-1742

  Constantinescu, George ^a,b   Chapelet, Matthieu ^a,c   Squires, Kyle ^a,c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPHERES; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING;

DETACHED EDDY SIMULATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0141573378     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.7291     Document Type: Article

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