Direct and Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulence: Proceedings of the EUROMECH Colloquium No. 199, München, FRG, September 30 to October 2, 1985 (Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics, 15)

Front Matter....Pages I-IX Subcritical Transition to Turbulence in Channel Flow....Pages 1-18 Vortical Mechanisms in Shear Flow Transition....Pages 19-36 Subgrid Scale Models for Homogeneous Anisotropic Turbulence....Pages 37-66 Application of Renormalisation Group (RG) Methods to the Subgrid Modelling Problem....Pages 67-81 Helical Fluctuations, Fractal Dimensions and Path Integral in the Theory of Turbulence....Pages 82-104 Large-Eddy Simulation of Low Reynolds Number Channel Flow by Spectral and Finite Difference Methods....Pages 105-118 Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Channel Flow by 1- Equation Model....Pages 119-134 Numerical Prediction of Turbulent Plane Couette Flow by Large Eddy Simulation....Pages 135-146 Advective Formulation of Large Eddy Simulation for Engineering Type Flows....Pages 147-160 Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Boundary Layer and Channel Flow at High Reynolds Number....Pages 161-176 Numerical Investigation of a Vortical Structure in a Wall-Bounded Shear Flow....Pages 177-180 Recent Results on the Structure of Turbulent Shear Flows Using Simulation Databases....Pages 181-187 Simulation of the Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Problem Using a Spectral/Finite Difference Technique....Pages 188-209 Application of the TURBIT-3 Subgrid Scale Model to Scales between Large Eddy and Direct Simulations....Pages 210-226 Direct Simulation of High-Reynolds-Number Flows by Finite-Difference Methods....Pages 227-244 Direct Simulation of Stably Stratified Turbulent Homogeneous Shear Flows....Pages 245-264 The Effect of Coherent Modes on the Evolution of a Turbulent Mixing Layer....Pages 265-270 Turbulent Flow Near Density Inversion Layers....Pages 271-290 A Large Eddy Simulation Model for the Stratus-Topped Boundary Layer....Pages 291-303 Decay of Convective Turbulence, a Large Eddy Simulation....Pages 304-317 Back Matter....Pages 318-340 This volume contains papers presented to a EUROMECH-Colloquium held in Munich, September 30 to October 2, 1985. The Colloquium is number 199 in a series of colloquia inaugurated by the European Mechanics Committee. The meeting was jointly organized by the 'Lehrstuhl fur Stromungsmechanik' at the 'Technische Universitat Munchen' and the 'Institut fur Physik der Atmosphare' of the 'Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt fur Luft- und Raumfahrt' (DFVLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen. 'Direct' and 'large eddy simulation' are terms which denote two closely con nected methods of turbulence research. In a 'direct simulation' (DS), turbu lent motion is simulated by numerically integrating the Navier-Stokes equations in three-dimensional space and as a function of time. Besides ini tial and boundary conditions no physical simplifications are involved. Com puter resources limit the resolution in time and space, though simulations with an order of one million discrete points in space are feasible. The simu lated flow fields can be considered as true realizations of turbulent flow fields and analysed to answer questions on the basic behaviour of turbulence. Direct simulations are valid as long as all the excited scales remain within the band of resolved scales. This means that viscosity must be strong enough to damp out the not resolved scales or the simulation is restricted to a lim ited integration-time interval only. In summary, DS provides a tool to investigate turbulent motions from first principles at least for a finite band of scales