Modelling of strongly swirling flows in a complex geometry using unstructured meshes

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 910-926

  Wang, Junye ^a   Priestman, Geoffrey H ^b   Tippetts, John R ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flow; Fluidics; Modelling; Simulation; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUIDICS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENCE;

EDDY VISCOSITY; QUADRATIC UPSTREAM INTERPOLATION FOR CONVECTIVE KINETICS (QUICK); REYNOLDS STRESS MODEL (RSM); TURBULENCE MODEL;

SWIRLING FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUIDICS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SWIRLING FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 33750707595     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530610702069     Document Type: Article

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