A parallel solution - adaptive method for three-dimensional turbulent non-premixed combusting flows

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3250-3275

  Gao, Xinfeng ^a   Groth, Clinton P T ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Parallel solution adaptive algorithm; Turbulent combustion; Turbulent diffusion flames; Turbulent non premixed flames

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMBUSTION; DIFFUSION; MESH GENERATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; COMBUSTING FLOW; MULTIBLOCKS; NEAR-WALL TURBULENCE; PARALLEL SOLUTION-ADAPTIVE ALGORITHM; PARALLEL SOLUTIONS; TURBULENT DIFFUSION FLAME; TURBULENT NON-PREMIXED; TURBULENT NON-PREMIXED FLAME; TURBULENT-COMBUSTION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 77949332738     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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