Numerical simulation of flow around a smooth circular cylinder at very high Reynolds numbers

Marine Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 142-153

  Ong, Muk Chen ^a   Utnes, Torbjørn ^b   Holmedal, Lars Erik ^a   Myrhaug, Dag ^a   Pettersen, Bjørnar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cylinder; High Reynolds number; Numerical models; Turbulent flow

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TRANSITION FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW;

ACCURATE PREDICTIONS; ANISOTROPIC TURBULENCES; CYLINDER; CYLINDER DIAMETERS; ENGINEERING DESIGNS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FLOW REGIMES; FREE-STREAM VELOCITIES; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOWS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; SUPER-CRITICAL; TRANSITION FLOW REGIMES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; UNSTEADY REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CYLINDER; FLOW MODELING; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 61749091736     PISSN: 09518339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marstruc.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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