Computation of strongly swirling confined flows with cubic eddy-viscosity turbulence models

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1355-1370

  Yang, Xiaodong ^a   Ma, Huiyang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Confined flow; Cubic eddy viscosity models; Strongly swirling flow; Turbulence modelling

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SWIRLING FLOW; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

FLOW PHYSICS;

CONFINED FLOW;

EDDY; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS STRESS; SWIRLING FLOW; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY; VORTEX;

EID: 0346421324     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.565     Document Type: Article

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