Channel flow over large cube roughness: A direct numerical simulation study

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 651, Issue , 2010, Pages 519-539

  Leonardi, Stefano ^a   Castro, Ian P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; DRAG; FLOW VELOCITY; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; QUAY WALLS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WALL FLOW;

FITTING PARAMETERS; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; MEAN FLOW VELOCITIES; MONOTONIC DECREASE; PRECISE DETERMINATIONS; ROUGHNESS ELEMENTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ROUGHNESS; ZERO-PLANE DISPLACEMENT;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; FLOW VELOCITY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROUGHNESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 77952423642     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211200999423X     Document Type: Article

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