Simulations of the turbulent channel flow at Reτ = 180 with projection-based finite element variational multiscale methods

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 407-429

  John, Volker ^a   Roland, Michael ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inf sup stable second order finite element methods; Smagorinsky LES model with van Driest damping; Turbulent channel flow; Variational multiscale methods

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

VAN DRIEST DAMPING; VARIATIONAL MULTISCALE METHOD;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION;

CHANNEL FLOW; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 34948871561     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1461     Document Type: Article

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