Numerical methods for high-speed flows

S Pirozzoli - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
We review numerical methods for direct numerical simulation (DNS) and large-eddy
simulation (LES) of turbulent compressible flow in the presence of shock waves. Ideal …

[HTML][HTML] Rortex and comparison with eigenvalue-based vortex identification criteria

Y Gao, C Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Most of the current Eulerian vortex identification criteria, including the Q criterion and the λ ci
criterion, are exclusively determined by the eigenvalues of the velocity gradient tensor or the …

Assessment of localized artificial diffusivity scheme for large-eddy simulation of compressible turbulent flows

S Kawai, SK Shankar, SK Lele - Journal of computational physics, 2010 - Elsevier
The localized artificial diffusivity method is investigated in the context of large-eddy
simulation of compressible turbulent flows. The performance of different artificial bulk …

Interactions between turbulence and flames in premixed reacting flows

PE Hamlington, AY Poludnenko, ES Oran - Physics of Fluids, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
The interactions between turbulence and flames in premixed reacting flows are studied for a
broad range of turbulence intensities by analyzing scalar (reactant mass-fraction) gradient …

Large-eddy simulation of jet mixing in supersonic crossflows

S Kawai, SK Lele - AIAA journal, 2010 - arc.aiaa.org
Large-eddy simulation of an underexpanded sonic jet injection into supersonic crossflows is
performed to obtain insights into key physics of the jet mixing. A high-order compact …

Wall shear stress and wall heat flux in a supersonic turbulent boundary layer

F Tong, S Dong, J Lai, X Yuan, X Li - physics of fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We report the characteristics of wall shear stress (WSS) and wall heat flux (WHF) from direct
numerical simulation (DNS) of a spatially developing zero-pressure-gradient supersonic …

Effect of wall temperature on the kinetic energy transfer in a hypersonic turbulent boundary layer

D Xu, J Wang, M Wan, C Yu, X Li… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The effect of wall temperature on the transfer of kinetic energy in a hypersonic turbulent
boundary layer for different Mach numbers and wall temperature ratios is studied by direct …

Linear response analysis of supersonic turbulent channel flows with a large parameter space

X Chen, C Cheng, L Fu, J Gan - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
In this work, the linear responses of turbulent mean flow to both harmonic and stochastic
forcing are investigated for supersonic channel flow. Well-established universal relations are …

The influence of near-wall density and viscosity gradients on turbulence in channel flows

A Patel, BJ Boersma, R Pecnik - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
The influence of near-wall density and viscosity gradients on near-wall turbulence in a
channel is studied by means of direct numerical simulation of the low-Mach-number …

On the turbulence amplification in shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction

J Fang, AA Zheltovodov, Y Yao, C Moulinec… - Journal of Fluid …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The mechanism of turbulence amplification in shock-wave/boundary layer interactions is
reviewed, and a new turbulence amplification mechanism is proposed based on the …