LES and RANS for turbulent flow over arrays of wall-mounted obstacles

Flow, Turbulence and Combustion

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 291-312

  Xie, Zhengtong ^a   Castro, Ian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bluff body; Group of obstacles; Reynolds number dependency; Turbulent flow

Indexed keywords

BLUFF BODY; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION (DNS); LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION (LES); REYNOLDS NUMBER DEPENDENCY; WALL-MOUNTED OBSTACLES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 33748799736     PISSN: 13866184     EISSN: 15731987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10494-006-9018-6     Document Type: Article

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