Grid-free simulation of the spatially growing turbulent mixing layer

AIAA Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1725-1737

  Bernard, Peter S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS (AIAA); DE FACTO; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FLOW THROUGH; GRID-FREE VORTEX METHOD; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; MEAN VELOCITIES; MIXING LAYERS; NUMERICAL SCHEMES; REYNOLDS' STRESSES; SELF SIMILAR; SUBGRID MODELING; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31); TRANSITION REGION (TR); TURBULENT MIXING; TURBULENT STATE; VORTEX FILAMENTS; VORTEX TUBES;

AVIATION; DISSOLUTION; FILAMENTS (LAMP); FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; LAMINAR FLOW; MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TURBULENCE;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 47749083038     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.34205     Document Type: Article

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