Assessing the predictive capabilities of isotropic, eddy viscosity Reynolds-averaged turbulence models in a natural-like meandering channel

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Kang, Seokkoo ^a   Sotiropoulos, Fotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDDY VISCOSITY; EDDY VISCOSITY TURBULENCE MODEL; FIELD SCALE; FLOW FEATURES; MEANDERING CHANNEL; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; RANS MODELS; RANS SIMULATION; RECIRCULATION ZONES; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED TURBULENCE MODEL; SECONDARY CELLS; SHEAR LAYER; STREAM GEOMETRY; TURBULENCE ANISOTROPY; UNSTEADY REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; VISUALIZATION EXPERIMENT;

FLOW VISUALIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

ANISOTROPY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; ISOTROPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHODYNAMICS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84861912739     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011375     Document Type: Article

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