Efficient algorithm for simulating homogeneous turbulent shear flow without remeshing

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-32

  Brucker, Kyle A ^a   Isaza, Juan C ^a   Vaithianathan, T ^a   Collins, Lance R ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct numerical simulations; Homogeneous turbulent shear; Pseudospectral algorithm; Remeshing; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; MESH GENERATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SHEAR FLOW;

CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; DEGREE OF DEFORMATIONS; DIRECT-NUMERICAL-SIMULATION; HOMOGENEOUS TURBULENT SHEAR; MEAN FLOW; PSEUDO-SPECTRAL ALGORITHMS; REMESHING; SPECTRAL TRANSFORM; TURBULENT SHEAR; TURBULENT SHEAR FLOWS;

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 34447289173     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.10.018     Document Type: Article

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