DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION: A Tool in Turbulence Research

@article{Moin1998DIRECTNS,
  title={DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION: A Tool in Turbulence Research},
  author={Parviz Moin and Krishnan Mahesh},
  journal={Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics},
  year={1998},
  volume={30},
  pages={539-578},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:14986531}
}
  • P. MoinK. Mahesh
  • Published 1998
  • Engineering, Physics
  • Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
▪ Abstract We review the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent flows. We stress that DNS is a research tool, and not a brute-force solution to the Navier-Stokes equations for engineering problems. The wide range of scales in turbulent flows requires that care be taken in their numerical solution. We discuss related numerical issues such as boundary conditions and spatial and temporal discretization. Significant insight into turbulence physics has been gained from DNS of certain… 
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