Impact of the floating-point precision and interpolation scheme on the results of DNS of turbulence by pseudo-spectral codes

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 177, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 560-565

  Homann, Holger ^a   Dreher, Jürgen ^a   Grauer, Rainer ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Direct numerical simulations; High Reynolds number turbulence; Homogeneous turbulence; Interpolation methods; Isotropic turbulence; Spectral methods; Turbulent flows

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INTERPOLATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FLOATING-POINT PRECISION; INTERMITTENCY; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; LAGRANGIAN ACCELERATION STATISTICS; PSEUDO-SPECTRAL CODES;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 34548324123     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2007.05.019     Document Type: Article

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