Classical and variational multiscale LES of the flow around a circular cylinder on unstructured grids

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1083-1094

  Ouvrard, Hilde ^a   Koobus, Bruno ^a   Dervieux, Alain ^b   Salvetti, Maria Vittoria ^c  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Circular cylinder flow; Large eddy simulation; Unstructured grids; Variational multiscale approach

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR CYLINDER FLOW; EDDY VISCOSITY; FINITE-VOLUME; FLOW AROUND A CIRCULAR CYLINDER; GRID RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL VISCOSITY; PROJECTION OPERATOR; SUBGRID SCALE; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; VARIATIONAL MULTISCALE;

AGGLOMERATION; CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; FLOW CONTROL; FLOW SIMULATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; VISCOSITY;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 77952553740     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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