Direct and large-eddy simulation. Selected papers from the 1st ERCOFTAC workshop held in Guildford, Surrey (GB), March 27--30, 1994 (Q677410)

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] Turbulence occurs in many technological applications important to mechanical, aerospace, electrical, computer, chemical, and nuclear engineers, to meteorologists and Earth scientists. One of the most challenging problems in the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is the simulation of turbulent flows in practical situations. Direct numerical and large-eddy simulations (DNS and LES) are exactly those numerical solutions, which reproduce with remarkable fidelity the statistical structural and dynamical properties of physical turbulent and transitional flows. This volume offers selected papers from the first ERCOFTAC workshop on direct and large-eddy simulation. The book contains six sections covering a broad range of recent developments in numerical modelling of transitional and turbulent flow by means of DNS and LES, with applications encompassing the variety of flows now accessible to simulation. Not only internal and external flows are represented, but the dynamically distinct regimes of incompressible and compressible flows, stratified, buoyant and other thermal flows, and chemically reacting flow are all simulated successfully. The book will be useful to all practitioners of CFD: engineers, researchers, teachers and graduate students.