Large-eddy simulation of turbulent combustion

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 38, Issue , 2006, Pages 453-482

  Pitsch, Heinz ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational combustion; Nonpremixed combustion; Premixed combustion; Scalar dissipation rate; Scalar mixing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

COMPUTATIONAL COMBUSTION; NONPREMIXED COMBUSTION; PREMIXED COMBUSTION; SCALAR DISSIPATION RATE; SCALAR MIXING;

TURBULENT FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

COMBUSTION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EID: 32644450470     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.38.050304.092133     Document Type: Review

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