Annual Research Briefs 1989

Front cover

Table of contents

Preface

• Modeling of compressible turbulence. 
  0. ZEMAN
• Turbulence modeling: near-wall turbulence and effects of rotation on turbulence.
  T. -H. SHIH
• An experimental study of scalar mixing in curved shear layers.
  P. S.  KARASSO and M. G. MUNGAL
• An experimental investigation of a low Reynolds number turbulent boundary layer subject to an adverse pressure gradient.
  J. H. WATMUFF
• An experimental study of the effects of rapid rotation on turbulence.
  S. V. VEERAVALLI
• An experimental study of secondary vortex structure in mixing layers.
  J. H. BELL
• Development of renormalization group analysis of turbulence.
  L. M. SMITH
• Short-time Lyapunov exponent analysis.
  J. A. VASTANO
• Organized motions underlying turbulent shear flows.
  F. WALEFFE
• Turbulence dynamics in the wavelet representation.
  C. MENEVEAU
• Direct simulation of turbulent combustion.
  T. J. POINSOT
• Transition to turbulence in hypersonic flow.
  J. J. W. VAN DER VEGT
• Direct simulations of wall-bounded compressible turbulence.
  J. C. BUELL
• Turbulent transport in the solar nebula.
  K. W. THOMPSON
• A numerical method for prediction of compressible turbulent flows with closure models.
  G. P. HUANG
• Incompressible spatially-developing free-shear flows.
  J. C. BUELL
• A numerical method for direct simulation of turbulence in complex geometries.
  P. ORLANDI
• The large-scale structures in turbulent plane Couette flow.
  M. J. LEE
• Turbulent thermal convection in a differentially rotating channel.
  W. CABOT
• Patterns in simulated  turbulent  channel flow.
  D. STRETCH