Annual Research Briefs 2000

• Preface
• Calculating free energies using scaled-force molecular dynamics algorithm.
  E. Darve, M. W. Wilson and A. Pohorille
• In pursuit of structures in protoplanetary disks.
  O. M. Umurhan
• Evolutionary optimization for flow experiments.
  I. F. Sbalzarini, L. K. Su and P. Koumoutsakos
• Control and optimization of turbulent jet mixing.
  A. Hilgers
• High-frequency excitation of a plane wake.
  A. B. Cain andM. M. Rogers
• Low-dimensional dynamics of near-wall turbulence.
  J. Jimenez and M. Simens
• Experimental results on the stabilization of lifted jet diffusion flames.
  L. K. Su, D. Han and M. G. Mungal
• Stochastic modeling of scalar dissipation rate fluctuations in non-premixed turbulent combustion.
  H. Pitsch and S. Fedotov
• A level-set approach to large eddy simulation of premixed turbulent combustion.
  L. Duchamp de Lageneste and H. Pitsch
• Local extinction-reignition in turbulent nonpremixed combustion.
  P. Sripakagorn, G. Kosaly and H. Pitsch
• Doubly-conditional moment closure modeling of turbulent nonpremixed combustion.
  C. M. Cha, G. Kosaly, and H. Pitsch
• Mapping closure approximation to conditional dissipation rate for turbulent scalar mixing
  G. He and R. Rubinstein
• Extended flamelet model for LES of non-premixed combustion.
  H. Pitsch
• A high-order approximate-mass spline collocation scheme for incompressible flow simulations.
  O. Botella
• Construction of commutative filters for LES on unstructured meshes.
  L. Marsden, O. Vasilyev and P. Moin
• Shock-capturing in LES of high-speed flows.
  M. P. Martin
• A new method for accurate treatment of flow equations in cylindrical coordinates using series expansions.
  G. S. Constantinescu and S. K. Lele
• An evaluation of a conservative fourth order DNS code in turbulent channel flow.
  J. Gullbrand
• Large-eddy simulation of gas turbine combustors.
  K. Mahesh, G. Constantinescu and P. Moin
• Towards LES models of jets and plumes.
  A. T. Webb and N. N. Mansour
• Dynamic wall modeling for LES of complex turbulent flows.
  M. Wang
• Flow in an impeller stirred tank using an immersed boundary method.
  R. Verzicco, G. Iaccarino, M. Fatica and P. Orlandi
• Unsteady 3D RANS simulations using the v2f model.
  G. Iaccarino and P. Durbin
• Prediction of the turbulent flow in a diffuser with commercial CFD codes.
  G. Iaccarino
• Computation of turbulent flow in a rotating pipe using the structure-based model.
  S. V. Poroseva, S. C. Kassinos, C. A. Langer and W. C. Reynolds
• Towards a robust and efficient v2f implementation with application to transonic bump flow.
  G. Kalitzin