Journal article

Large-scale compressible-flow direct numerical simulations

RD Sandberg

Ercoftac Series | SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG | Published : 2018

Abstract

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent flows began in the early 1970s with the study of incompressible isotropic turbulence by Orszag and Patterson (Phys Rev Lett 28(2), 76–79, 1972) [8], and compressible DNS were not conducted until the 1980s.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Grants

Awarded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

The author thanks Professor V. Michelassi and Drs B.J. Tester, A.P.S. Wheeler, R. Pichler and L.W. Chen for their contributions to this work. Funding for the low-pressure turbine work by General Electric is acknowledged. Computer time was provided by the UK turbulence consortium under EPSRC grant EP/L000261/1.