LES and DES Investigations of Turbulent Flow over a Sphere at Re = 10,000

Flow, Turbulence and Combustion

Volumn 70, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 267-298

  Constantinescu, G S ^a   Squires, K D ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Detached eddy simulation; Large eddy simulation; Massively separated flows; Subgrid scale models; Wakes

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRESS ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY; WAKES;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); TURBULENT DISSIPATION;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0346331371     PISSN: 13866184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:APPL.0000004937.34078.71     Document Type: Review

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