The effect of unstructured grid topology and resolution on simulations of decaying turbulence

27th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2010, ICAS 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 798-811

  Winkler, Chad M ^a   Dorgan, Andrew J ^a   Mani, Mori ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detached eddy simulation; Isotropic turbulence

Indexed keywords

DELAYED-DETACHED EDDY SIMULATION; DETACHED EDDY SIMULATIONS; DIFFERENCING SCHEME; HOMOGENOUS ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; STATISTICAL QUANTITY; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; UNSTEADY SIMULATIONS;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW SEPARATION; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; KINETICS; TRANSIENTS; TURBULENCE MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84878494305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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