Annual Research Briefs 1990

Front cover

Table of contents

Preface

• Turbulence closure modeling near rigid boundaries.
  P. DURBIN
• Compressible turbulent flows: modeling and similarity considerations.
  0. ZEMAN
• Single and double point modeling of homogeneous turbulence.
  C. CAMBON
• Large-eddy simulation of compressible turbulence.
  K. SQUIRES
• Progress in understanding the renormalization group skewness and k-ε models.
  L. M. SMITH and W. C. REYNOLDS
• Recursive renormalization group theory based subgrid modeling.
  Y. ZHOU
• Investigations of turbulent scalar fields using probability density function approach.
  F. GAO
• Modeling turbulent boundary layers in adverse pressure gradients.
  S. E. BELCHER
• Modeling hypersonic boundary-layer flows with second-moment closure.
  P. G. HUANG
• Direct simulation of turbulent combustion.
  T. J. POINSOT
• Simulation of flame-turbulence interactions in premixed combustion.
  A. TROUVE
• A dynamical systems analysis of the kinematics of time-periodic vortex shedding past a circular cylinder.
  J. M. OTTINO
• Direct numerical simulation of turbulent plane Couette flow.
  M. J. LEE
• Automated pattern eduction from turbulent flow diagnostics.
  D. D. STRETCH
• On the origin of the streak spacing in turbulent shear flows.
  F. WALEFFE
• Fractal interfaces and product generation in the two dimensional mixing layer.
  J. JIMENEZ and C. MARTEL
• Studies of supersonic mixing.
  N. T. CLEMENS and M. G. MUNGAL
• An experimental study of curved mixing layers: flow visualization using volume rendering.
  P. S. KARASSO and M. G. MUNGAL
• An experimental study of the effects of rapid rotation on turbulence.
  S. V. VEERAVALLI
• Phase-averaged measurements of perturbations introduced into boundary layers.
  J. H. WATMUFF
• Effect of initial conditions on secondary vortex structure in mixing layers.
  J. H. BELL
• Characterization of length and velocity scales of free stream turbulence and investigation of their effects on surface heat transfer.
  S. YAVUZKURT
• Dual spectra and mixed energy cascade of turbulence in the wavelet representation.
  C. MENEVEAU
• Stationary turbulent closure via the Hopf functional equation. 
  H. H. SHEN
• The interaction of superfluid vortex filaments with a normal fluid channel flow.
  D. C. SAMUELS
• Simulations of curved turbulent boundary layers: a progress report.
  P. ORLANDI
• Methods for direct simulation of transition in hypersonic boundary layers.
  J. J. W. VAN DER VEGT and J. H. FERZIGER
• Effect of heat release on the stability of compressible reacting mixing layer.
  D. S. SHIN and J. H. FERZIGER
• Numerical simulations of turbulent thermal convection with differential rotation.
  W. CABOT
• Direct simulations of compressible wall-bounded turbulence.
  J.C. BUELL

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