Energy transfers and spectral eddy viscosity in large-eddy simulations of homogeneous isotropic turbulence: Comparison of dynamic Smagorinsky and multiscale models over a range of discretizations

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 4044-4052

  Hughes, Thomas J R ^a   Wells, Garth N ^b   Wray, Alan A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VISCOSITY;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION (DNS); GRID REFINEMENT; MULTISCALE MODELS; SPECTRAL EDDY VISCOSITY;

ENERGY TRANSFER;

PHYSICS;

EID: 8844233574     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1789157     Document Type: Article

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