Near-wall profiles of mean flow and turbulence quantities predicted by eddy-viscosity turbulence models

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 953-988

  Eca L ^a   Hoekstra, M ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b MARIN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eddy viscosity; Log law; Near wall profiles; Numerical uncertainty; Viscous sub layer; Wall functions

Indexed keywords

EDDY VISCOSITY; LOG-LAWS; NEAR-WALL; NUMERICAL UNCERTAINTY; VISCOUS SUBLAYER; WALL FUNCTION;

REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE MODELS; VISCOSITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77954505731     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2115     Document Type: Article

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