ANNUAL RESEARCH BRIEFS 2004


Preface

Energy conservation in collocated discretization schemes on unstructured meshes
F. Ham and G. Iaccarino

On mass conservation and desingularization of the Level Set/Vortex Sheet method
M. Herrmann

Accurate and efficient immersed-boundary interpolations for viscous flows
S. Kang, G. Iaccarino and P. Moin

A computational and experimental investigation of flow inside branched coral colony
S. Chang, G. Iaccarino, C. Elkins, J. Eaton and S. Monismith

Numerical issues and free stream behavior of the v2-f model
G. Kalitzin

A turbulence model for polymer flows
Y. Dubief, G. Iaccarino and S. Lele

Flux corrected finite-volume scheme for preserving scalar boundedness in large-eddy simulations
M. Herrmann, G. Blanquart and V. Raman

Stability for the Wall-Pierce-Moin implicit schem
B. Gustafsson

A formulation of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a quasi-generalized coordinate system
D. You and M. Wang

On LES outflow conditions for integrated LES-RANS computations
J.U. Schluter and X. Wu

Integrated RANS-LES of a realistic gas turbine compressor/combustor assembly
J.U. Schluter, X. Wu, S. Kim, J.J. Alonso and H. Pitsch

Variational multiscale large eddy simulation of turbulent flows using a finite volume method
V. Gravemeier

Large-eddy simulation of passive-scalar mixing using multifractal subgrid-scale modeling
G. Burton

Large-eddy simulation of a free round jet using multifractal subgrid-scale modeling
G. Burton

Identification of an internal layer in a diffuser
X. Wu, J. Schluter, P. Moin, H. Pitsch, G. Iaccarino and F. Ham

LES prediction of pressure fluctuations on a low speed airfoil
M. Wang, S. Moreau, G. Iaccarino and M. Roger

A space-time correlation theory for turbulent shear flows
G.He and M. Wang

A multilevel formulation to simulate particulate flows
S.V. Apte

A presumed pdf model for droplet evaporation/condensation in complex flows
S. Apte and S. Ghosal

Spreading laws for diffusion in a low-Reynolds-number channel
J. Jimenez

Consistent hybrid LES-FDF formulation for the simulation of turbulent combustion
V. Raman, H. Pitsch and R. O. Fox

Conditional filtering method for large-eddy simulation of turbulent nonpremixed combustion
S. H. Kim and H.Pitsch

DNS of premixed turbulent combustion of lean spherical flames with a Flamelet Generated Manifold
R.M. Bastiaans, J.A. van Oijen, S.M. Martin, L.P.H. de Goey and H. Pitsch

Numerical simulations of spray flames
R. Kurose, O. Desjardins, M. Nakamura, F. Akamatsu and H. Pitsch

Frequency integrated radiation models for absorbing and scattering media
J-F. Ripoll and A.A. Wray

Macroscopic modeling and computation of radiation for a 2m diameter pool fire
J.F. Ripoll

Direct numerical simulation of turbulent condensation in clouds
R. Paoli and K. Shariff

Droplet growth by turbulent coagulation
N. Riemer and A.S. Wexler

Topography modeling in atmospheric flows using the immersed boundary method
I. Senocak, A.S. Ackerman, D.E. Stevens and N.N. Mansour

Study of near-surface models in large-eddy simulations of a neutrally stratified atmospheric boundary layer
I. Senocak, A.S. Ackerman, M.P. kirkpatrick, D.E. Stevens and N.N. Mansour

Velocity field decomposition in 3D numerical simulations of solar turbulent convection
D.Georgobiani, N. N. Mansour, A.G. Kosovichev, R.F. Stein and A. Nordlund

High degree oscillations in 3D numerical simulations of solar convection
D. Georgobiani, R.F. Stein, A.Nordland, A.G. Kosovichev and N.N. Mansour

Thermal diffusivity in the SGS modeling for solar convection simulations using the ASH code
Y.N. Young, M. Miesch and N.N. Mansour

Solar convection simulations using a B-spline method
T. Hartlep and N.N. Mansour