Intermittency based RANS bypass transition modelling

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 6, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 68-78

  Lodefier, Koen ^a   Merci, Bart ^a   De Langhe, Chris ^a   Dick, Erik ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bypass transition; Intermittency; SST turbulence model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSITION FLOW; VISCOSITY;

BYPASS TRANSITION; INTERMITTENCY; TRANSITION MODEL; TURBULENCE MODEL;

TURBULENT FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSITION FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 33744490392     PISSN: 14684349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PCFD.2006.009484     Document Type: Article

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