Parameter-free symmetry-preserving regularization modeling of a turbulent differentially heated cavity

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1815-1831

  Trias, F X ^a,b   Verstappen, R W C P ^b   Gorobets, A ^a   Soria, M ^a   Oliva, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Differentially heated cavity; Natural convection; Parameter free turbulence model; Regularization modeling; Symmetry preserving discretization

Indexed keywords

BLOW-UP; BUOYANCY DRIVEN FLOWS; COARSE GRID; CONSERVATION PROPERTIES; DIFFERENTIALLY HEATED CAVITY; DISCRETIZATIONS; ENSTROPHY; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HEIGHT ASPECT RATIOS; LOCAL FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; NATURAL CONVECTION FLOW; NON-LINEARITY; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER-FREE TURBULENCE MODEL; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; REGULARIZATION METHODS; REGULARIZATION MODELING; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS; SMALL SCALE; SMOOTH APPROXIMATION; UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE; VORTEX STRETCHING;

ASPECT RATIO; NUSSELT NUMBER; TURBULENCE MODELS;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 77956343958     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2010.06.016     Document Type: Article

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