Proceedings of the 2004 Summer Program

• Front Cover
• Preface

I. SOLAR SIMULATIONS

• Overview
• Thermal convection in a twisted magnetic field.
  F.H. Busse
• Numerical modeling of turbulent convection and acoustic wave propagation in the solar interior.
  M. Miesch, N.N. Mansour and M.M. Rogers
• Solar surface convection.
  R.Stein, A. Nordlund, J.F. Ripoll and A.A. Wray

II. MHD

• Overview
• Anisotropy of MHD turbulence at low magnetic Reynolds number.
  O. Zikanov, A. Vorobev, A. Thess, P.A. Davidson and B. Knaepen
• MHD turbulence sheared in fixed and rotating frames.
  S.C. Kassinos, B. Knaepen and A. Wray
• On the transition from two-dimensional to three-dimensional MHD turbulence.
  A. Thess and O. Zikanov
• Magnetic turbulence in compressible fluids.
  J. Cho and A. Lazarian
• Modeling anomalous electron transport in Hall thrusters.
  E. Fernandez, M. Cappelli, N. Gascon and M. Alllis
• Hartmann effect on MHD turbulence in the limit RM << 1. 
  B. Knaepen, Y. Dubief and R. Moreau

III. LES AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS

• Overview
• Adaptive LES of 3D decaying isotropic turbulence.
  D. Goldstein, O. V. Vasilyev and N. Kevlahan
• Transfer of energy in the variational multiscale formulation of LES.
  A. Oberai, V. Gravemeier and G Burton
• Sampling versus filtering in Large-Eddy simulations.
  O. Debliquy, B. Knaepen, D. Carati and A. Wray
• Filtering and LES of flow over irregular rough boundary.
  A. Nakayama, K. Hori and R. L. Street
• Commutation errors in Large Eddy Simulation on moving grids: application to piston engine flows.
  V.R. Moureau, O.V. Vasilyev, C. Angelberger and T.J. Poinsot

IV. RANS MODELING AND APPLICATIONS

• Overview
• Combining eddy-viscosity models and the algebraic structure-based Reynolds stress closure.
  G. Kalitzin, G. Iaccarino, C.A. Langer and S.C. Kassinos
• Synthetic jet modeling for U-RANS.
  F. Capizzano and G. Iaccarino
• Numerical simulation of a low speed fan blade.
  S. Moreau, G. Iaccarino, S. Kang, Y. Khalighi and M. Wang

V. STABILITY AND ACOUSTICS

• Overview
• A study of turbulent wake dynamics using a novel localized stability analysis.
  X.S. Liang and M. Wang
• Nonlinear evolution of velocity fluctuations in a laminar boundary layer excited by free-stream vortical disturbances.
  P. Ricco, P.A. Durbin, T. Zaki and X. Wu
• The robustness of acoustic analogies.
  J.B. Freund, S.K. Lele and M. Wei

VI. COMBUSTION AND MULTI-PHASE FLOW

• Overview
• Direct numerical simulation of turbulent premixed flames with a marker field and application to RANS and LES.
  R.W. Bilger, S.H. Kim and S.M. Martin
• Validation of an asymptotic zone conditional expression for turbulent burning velocity against DNS database.
  K.Y. Huh, S.H. Kim and S. Kim
• LES/FDF/ISAT compuations of turbulent flames.
  L. Lu, Z. Ren, V. Raman, S.B. Pope and H. Pitsch
• A constructed PDF Model for fast CFD with realistic chemistry. 
  G.M. Goldin and V. Raman
• Liquid film modeling in high shear nozzles.
  W.W. Kim, S. Apte, M. Herrmann and F. Ham
• Simulation of dispersed two-phase flow using a coupled Volume-of-Fluid/Level-Set method.
  E.R.A. Coyajee, M. Herrmann and B.J. Boersma
• Filtered particle tracking for dispersed two-phase turbulent flows.
  J. Pozorski, S. Apte and V. Raman
• Toward the development of a LES-SGS closure model for buoyant plumes.
  S.R. Tieszen, H. Pitsch, G. Blanquart and S. Abarzhi
• Radiative transfer modeling of a large pool fire by discrete ordinates, discrete transfer, ray tracing, Monte Carlo and moment methods.
  K.A. Jensen, J.F. Ripoll, A.A. Wray, D. Joseph and M. El Hafi
• Temperature and pollution control in flames.
  L. Debiane, B. Ivorra, B. Mohammadi, F. Nicoud, A. Ern, T. Poinsot, and H. Pitsch
• Analysis of acoustic energy and modes in a turbulent swirled combustor.
  C. Martin, L. Benoit, F. Nicoud and T. Poinsot
• Toward improved boundary conditions for the DNS and LES of turbulent subsonic flows.
  R. Prosser and J. Schluter