Flow dynamics in the turbulent wake of a sphere at sub-critical reynolds numbers

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 233-243

  Rodriguez I ^a   Lehmkuhl, O ^a,b   Borrell, R ^b   Oliva, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Termo Fluids   (Spain)

Author keywords

Direct numerical simulations; Parallel solver; Turbulent wakes; Unstructured meshes

Indexed keywords

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; POISSON EQUATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WAKES;

DIAGONALIZATION METHOD; FREE-STREAM VELOCITY; PARALLEL SOLVER; SHEAR LAYER INSTABILITY; TURBULENT STATISTICS; TURBULENT WAKE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRIDS; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; VORTICAL STRUCTURES;

SPHERES; WAKES;

EID: 84880030866     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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