Apparent transition behavior of widely-used turbulence models

International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1460-1471

  Rumsey, Christopher L ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Transition; Turbulence model

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GRID COMPUTING; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EXTERNAL FLOW COMPUTATIONS; NULLCLINE ANALYSIS;

TURBULENCE;

AIRFOILS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GRID COMPUTING; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 36248946295     PISSN: 0142727X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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