Spectral compact difference hybrid computation of passive scalar in isotropic turbulence

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 231, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 7398-7414

  Gotoh, T ^a   Hatanaka, S ^a,c   Miura, H ^b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR FUSION SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Nikko Kasei Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

Combined compact difference; Direct numerical simulation; Hybrid method; Passive scalar; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

COMBINED COMPACT DIFFERENCE; DIRECT-NUMERICAL-SIMULATION; HOMOGENEOUS TURBULENCE; HYBRID COMPUTATION; HYBRID METHOD; HYBRID NUMERICAL METHOD; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; PASSIVE SCALARS; SCHMIDT NUMBERS; SPECTRAL METHODS;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 84865360632     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.07.010     Document Type: Article

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