Large-eddy simulation of a curved open-channel flow over topography

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1-18

  van Balen, W ^a,c   Uijttewaal, W S J ^a   Blanckaert, K ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c HKV CONSULTANTS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

ANISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; RECIRCULATION ZONES; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; REYNOLDS STRESS TENSORS; STREAMWISE MOMENTUM BALANCES; TOPOGRAPHIC STEERING; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY;

OPEN CHANNEL FLOW;

EID: 77955617915     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3459152     Document Type: Article

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