Hybrid spectral-particle method for the turbulent transport of a passive scalar

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 260, Issue , 2014, Pages 127-142

  Lagaert, J B ^a   Balarac, G ^a   Cottet, G H ^b  

^a LEGI   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Direct numerical simulation; Hybrid method; Particle method; Passive scalar; Turbulent mixing; Universal scaling

Indexed keywords

A-PARTICLES; DIRECT-NUMERICAL-SIMULATION; HYBRID METHOD; NUMERICAL COSTS; PARTICLE METHODS; PASSIVE SCALARS; SCHMIDT NUMBERS; TURBULENT MIXING; TURBULENT TRANSPORTS; UNIVERSAL SCALING;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84891641003     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2013.12.026     Document Type: Article

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