Reliability issues of LES-related approaches in an industrial context

Flow, Turbulence and Combustion

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 325-335

  Gant, Simon E ^a  

^a HEALTH AND SAFETY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gas dispersion; Grid resolution; Large Eddy Simulation; Quality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SIMULATION; CFD CODES; COARSE GRID; DETACHED EDDY SIMULATIONS; ENGINEERING TOOLS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GAS DISPERSION; GAS RELEASE; GRID RESOLUTION; GRID SENSITIVITY; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INDUSTRIAL CONTEXT; INDUSTRIAL USERS; MODEL PREDICTION; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; UNSTEADY REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; VENTILATED ROOM;

ATMOSPHERICS; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTER SCIENCE; DISPERSIONS; FORECASTING; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; LEAKAGE (FLUID); NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SIMULATORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 71449095151     PISSN: 13866184     EISSN: 15731987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10494-009-9237-8     Document Type: Article

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