Simulation of Laminar-Turbulent Transition in the Vicinity of a Wall.

Abstract

Numerical simulation was used to explore the process of transition that a flow undergoes in changing from a laminar state to a turbulent state. The effort concentrated on three relatively simple flows for which extensive databases exist; these are the plane channel, curved channel, and flat boundary layer flows. Significant results were produced for all three cases.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 07, 1988
Accession Number
ADA191380

Entities

People

  • Helen L. Reed
  • Joel H. Ferziger

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Boundary Layer Flow
  • Channel Flow
  • Classification
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Engineering
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Heat Transfer
  • Laminar Flow
  • Layers
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Reynolds Number
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.