A Semi-Lagrangian Method for Turbulence Simulations Using Mixed Spectral Discretizations

Journal of Scientific Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 585-597

  Xu, Jin ^a   Xiu, Dongbin ^a   Em Karniadakis, George ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct numerical simulation; Semi Lagrangian schemes; Spectral elements

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN SCHEMES; SPECTRAL ELEMENTS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 1942475353     PISSN: 08857474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1015122714039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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