Annual Research Briefs 2011

Preface

• Prediction of supersonic jet noise from complex nozzles.
  J. W. Nichols, F. E. Ham, S. K. Lele and P. Moin
• Numerical simulation of the breakup of a round liquid jet by a coaxial flow of gas with a subgrid Lagrangian breakup model.
  D. Kim and P. Moin
• Grid-point requirements for large eddy simulation: Chapman's estimates revisited.
  H. Choi and P. Moin
• Wall-modeled large eddy simulation in complex geometries with application to high-lift devices.
  J. Bodart and J. Larsson
• Wall-modeled large eddy simulation of shock/turbulent boundary-layer interaction in a duct.
  I. Bermejo-Moreno, J. Larsson, L. Campo, J. Bodart, R. Vicquelin, D. Helmer and J. Eaton
• Large eddy simulations of the HyShot II scramjet.
  J. Larsson, R. Vicquelin and I. Bermejo-Moreno
• Turbulence budgets in oblique shockwave/turbulent boundary layer interactions.
  B. Morgan and S. K. Lele
• Explicitly filtered large eddy simulation on unstructured grids.
  S. T. Bose, P. Moin and F. Ham
• Predicting natural transition using large eddy simulation.
  T. Sayadi and P. Moin
• Direct numerical simulation of H-type and K-type transition to turbulence.
  T. Sayadi, C. W. Hamman and P. Moin
• Structural LES modeling with high-order spectral difference schemes.
  G. Lodato, P. Castonguay and A. Jameson
• Vortex tube formation in solar turbulent convection.
  I. N. Kitiashvili, A. G. Kosovichev, N. N. Mansour, S. K. Lele and A. A. Wray
• Epistemic uncertainty quantification of RANS modeling for an underexpanded jet in a supersonic cross flow.
  C. Gorl´e, M. Emory and G. Iaccarino
• Statistical inference of uncertainties in elementary reaction rates of chemical mechanisms.
  N. Kseib, J. Urzay and G. Iaccarino
• Introducing essentially non-oscillatory stencil selection with subcell resolution into uncertainty quantification.
  J. A. S. Witteveen and G. Iaccarino
• RANS modeling of scalar dispersion from localized sources within a simplified urban-area model.
  R. Rossi, S. Capra and G. Iaccarino
• A revised spray-combustion diagram of diffusion-controlled burning regimes in fuel-spray clouds.
  J. Urzay
• Source terms for calculations of vaporizing and burning fuel sprays with non-unity Lewis numbers in gases with temperature-dependent thermal conductivities.
  J. Urzay, H. Pitsch and A. Li˜n´an
• Spray evaporation model sensitivities.
  Shashank, E. Knudsen and H. Pitsch
• Direct numerical simulation of autoigniting mixing layers in MILD combustion.
  J. A. van Oijen
• LES of an auto-igniting C2H4 flame DNS.
  E. Knudsen, E. S. Richardson, J. H. Chen and H. Pitsch
• Identification of azimuthal modes in annular combustion chambers.
  T. Poinsot, P. Wolf, G. Staffelbach, L. Y. M. Gicquel and J. D. Muller
• Assessment of the combustion characteristics of hydrogen transverse jets in supersonic crossflow.
  M. Gamba, V. E. Terrapon, A. Saghafian, M. G. Mungal and H. Pitsch
• Toluene PLIF thermometry and imaging in supersonic flows.
  V. A. Miller, M. Gamba, M. G. Mungal and R. K. Hanson
• A study of expansion tube gas flow conditions for scramjet combustor model testing.
  F. Orley, C. L. Strand, V. A. Miller, M. Gamba, N. A. Adams and G. Iaccarino
• New convergence acceleration techniques in the Joe code.
  F. Palacios and J. J. Alonso
• A multi-Gaussian quadrature method of moments for simulating high Stokes number turbulent two-phase flows.
  A. Vi´e, C. Chalons, R. O. Fox, F. Laurent and M. Massot
• Second-order scheme for quadrature-based velocity high order moment methods for disperse two-phase flows.
  D. Kah, A. Vi´e, C. Chalons and M. Massot
• Using the compressible Navier-Stokes equations as a model for heat transfer in solids.
  J. Berg and J. Nordstrom
• Time-space adaptive numerical methods for the simulation of combustion fronts.
  M. Duarte, M. Massot, S. Descombes, C. Tenaud and S. Candel
• Characteristic outflows with optimal transverse terms: the edges and corners coupling algorithm.
  G. Lodato and H. Pitsch
• High-order finite difference methods with subcell resolution for 2D detonation waves.
  W. Wang, C.-W. Shu, H. C. Yee and B. Sjogreen
• Variable high-order overset grid methods for mixed steady and unsteady multiscale viscous hypersonic nonequilibrium flows.
  A. Lani, B. Sj¨ogreen, H. C. Yee and W. D. Henshaw 
• Performance of four high-order shock-capturing schemes for stiff source terms with discontinuities: preliminary results.
  D. V. Kotov, H. C. Yee, B. Sjogreen, W. Wang and C.-W. Shu
• Buckling transitions of a beam at a stagnation point.
  L. Guglielmini, A. Kushwaha, E. Shaqfeh and H. A. Stone 

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