Estimating uncertainties in statistics computed from direct numerical simulation

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Oliver, Todd A ^a   Malaya, Nicholas ^a   Ulerich, Rhys ^a   Moser, Robert D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; EXTRAPOLATION; MESH GENERATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; SAMPLING; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; LORENZ EQUATION; ORDER OF ACCURACY; RICHARDSON EXTRAPOLATION; SAMPLING UNCERTAINTIES; STATISTICAL SAMPLING; UNIFIED APPROACH; WALL-BOUNDED TURBULENT FLOWS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 84905165995     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: 10897666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4866813     Document Type: Article

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