LES approach for high Reynolds number wall-bounded flows with application to turbulent channel flow

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 9271-9291

  Pantano, C ^a   Pullin, D I ^b   Dimotakis, P E ^b   Matheou, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Law of the wall; LES; Numerical methods; Turbulence modeling; Wall functions

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHANNEL FLOW; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WALL FLOW; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS; LAW OF THE WALL; LES; MODELING APPROACH; SIMULATION APPROACH; SUB-GRID-SCALE MODELS; TURBULENCE MODELING; TURBULENT CHANNEL FLOWS; WALL BOUNDED FLOWS;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 51449121155     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.04.015     Document Type: Article

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