Effective viscosity in the simulation of spatially evolving shear flows with monotonic FCT models (Q1201087)

The ``FCT model'', appearing in the title of the paper, is an abbreviation of the flux-corrected transport algorithm, used by the authors in some previous papers, quoted in the bibliography, for numerical solving the inviscid, time-dependent conservation equations for mass, momentum and energy for ideal gases. The algorithm, exposed in the second part of the paper for the equation \(\partial f/\partial t+\partial(vf)/\partial r=h\), is applied to the free mixing layers in the low Mach number phenomena, and the effective numerical diffusion in the mathematical simulation is studied. In the applicative part of the paper, in the section 3, the authors analyse the laminar spread of a free mixing layer, based on the boundary layer theory. The theoretical results are used for the effective measurements of the global numerical diffusion of the model and its dependence upon the used parameters (velocity ratio, diffusion parameter, grid spacing). The obtained results re compared with those furnished by the boundary layer theory.