Large-eddy simulation of decaying isotropic turbulence across a grid refinement interface using explicit filtering and reconstruction

Journal of Turbulence

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 58-76

  Goodfriend, L ^a   Chow, F K ^a   Vanella, M ^b   Balaras, E ^b  

^a 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

^b The George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive grids; Approximate reconstruction; Explicit filtering; Large eddy simulation

Indexed keywords

A1. LARGEEDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); ADAPTIVE GRIDS; ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; NUMERICAL ERRORS; TURBULENCE CLOSURE MODELS; TURBULENCE SIMULATION;

ERRORS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

ERROR ANALYSIS; ISOTROPY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 84890963492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14685248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14685248.2013.867964     Document Type: Article

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