A priori assessment of closures for scalar dissipation rate transport in turbulent premixed flames using direct numerical simulation

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Chakraborty, N ^a   Rogerson, J W ^b   Swaminathan, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; FLAMMABILITY TESTING; NUMERICAL MODELS; RATE CONSTANTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; ALGEBRA; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; PHYSICAL REALIZABILITY; REALIZABILITY CONDITIONS; SCALAR DISSIPATION RATE; THIN-REACTION-ZONE; TURBULENT PREMIXED FLAME; TURBULENT REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT TRANSPORTS; MOLECULAR DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; TURBULENCE-SCALAR INTERACTION;

COMBUSTION; TURBULENT FLOW;

ALGEBRA; DIFFUSION; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 43149123353     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2903846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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