A comparison of vortex and pseudo-spectral methods for the simulation of periodic vortical flows at high Reynolds numbers

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2794-2805

  van Rees, Wim M ^a   Leonard, Anthony ^b   Pullin, D I ^b   Koumoutsakos, Petros ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Pseudo spectral method; Vortex method; Vortex reconnection; Vortical flow

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; MESH GENERATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTICITY;

ENERGY SPECTRUM; ENSTROPHY; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; HYBRID PARTICLES; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; TAYLOR-GREEN VORTEX; VALIDATION STUDY; VORTEX METHODS; VORTEX RECONNECTION; VORTICAL FLOWS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 79951772562     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.11.031     Document Type: Article

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