Resolution requirements for aero-optical simulations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 9008-9020

  Mani, Ali ^a   Wang, Meng ^b   Moin, Parviz ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Aero optics; Compressible turbulent flow; Computational error; Large eddy simulation; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ERRORS; FLOW SIMULATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MACH NUMBER; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

AERO-OPTICS; COMPRESSIBLE TURBULENT FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL ERROR; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS; OPTICAL COMPUTATIONS; OPTICAL SIMULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX FIELD; RESOLUTION REQUIREMENTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TURBULENCE STRUCTURES;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EID: 51449115879     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.02.014     Document Type: Article

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