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Numerical Simulation of Transition and Turbulence in Wall-Bounded Shear Flow

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Laminar-turbulent transition encompasses the evolution of a flow from an initially ordered laminar motion into the chaotic turbulent state. Transition is important in a variety of technical applications, however its accurate prediction and the involved physical mechanisms are still a matter of active research.

In the present contribution, an overview is given on recent advances with the simulation of transitional and turbulent incompressible wall-bounded shear flows. The focus is on large-eddy simulations (LES). In LES, only the large-scale, energy-carrying vortices of the flow are accurately resolved on the numerical grid, whereas the small-scale fluctuations, assumed to be more homogeneous, are treated by a subgrid-scale (SGS) model. The application of LES to flows of technical interest is promising as LES provides reasonable accuracy at significantly reduced computational cost compared to fully-resolved direct numerical simulations (DNS). Nevertheless, LES of practical flows still require massive computational resources and the use of supercomputer facilities.

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    Philipp Schlatter, Steffen Stolz & Leonhard Kleiser

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Schlatter, P., Stolz, S., Kleiser, L. (2006). Numerical Simulation of Transition and Turbulence in Wall-Bounded Shear Flow. In: Resch, M., Bönisch, T., Benkert, K., Bez, W., Furui, T., Seo, Y. (eds) High Performance Computing on Vector Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-35074-8_6

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