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Compressible turbulence is relevant to technologies in nigh-speed aviation, missiles and high-energy devices. In the realm of nature, flows on planetary and galactic scales involve compressibility effects. Thus, applications in engineering and astrophysics have motivated the study of compressible turbulence over a time span of the same order as that of incompressible turbulence. Most of the work has been experimental and theoretical in nature. Computational studies of compressible flows with direct numerical simulation (DNS) have been more recent but substantial progress has been made in the past ten years in understanding essential differences between incompressible and compressible turbulence. The objective of the current paper is to describe developments in a specific example, the compressible shear layer. The supersonic boundary layer, its structure, and its interaction with shocks has also been an active area of investigation by DNS but will not be covered in the current paper. Reviews by Lele (1994) and Smits & Dussauge (1996) can be consulted for progress in these areas.
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Sarkar, S., Pantano, C. (1999). Contributions of DNS to the Investigation of Compressible Turbulent Shear Flows. In: Voke, P.R., Sandham, N.D., Kleiser, L. (eds) Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation III. ERCOFTAC Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9285-7_31
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