Annual Research Briefs 2002

• Preface
• A G-equation formulation for large-eddy simulation of premixed turbulent combustion.
  H. Pitsch
• A numerical scheme for the large-eddy simulation of turbulent combustion using a level-set method.
  L. Duchamp de Lageneste and H. Pitsch
• On the role of quasi-one-dimensional dissipation layers in turbulent scalar mixing.
  N. Peters and P. Trouillet
• Modelling turbulence-radiation interactions for large sooting turbulent flames.
  J.-F. Ripoll and H. Pitsch
• Inverse parabolicity of PDF equations in turbulent flows - reversed-time diffusion or something else.
  A.Y. Klimenko
• Filtered density-function modeling for large-eddy simulations of turbulent reacting flows.
  C. Cha and P. Trouillet
• Transported PDF modeling of turbulent nonpremixed combustion.
  C. M. Cha
• Comparison of turbulent premixed flames at different turbulence levels.
  L. Duchamp de Lageneste and H. Pitsch
• An Eulerian level-set/vortex-sheet method for two-phase interface dynamics.
  M. Herrmann
• Progress toward large-eddy simulation of turbulent reacting and non-reacting flows in complex geometries.
  K. Mahesh, G. Constantinescu, S. Apte, G. Iaccarino, F. Ham and P. Moin
• Consistent boundary conditions for integrated LES/RANS simulations: LES inflow conditions.
  J. U. Schluter
• Integration of RANS and LES flow solvers: interface validation.
  J. U. Schluter, S. Shankaran, S. Kim, H. Pitsch and J. J. Alonso
• Grid-independent large-eddy simulation in turbulent channel flow using three-dimensional explicit filtering.
  J. Gullbrand
• Wall modeling for large-eddy simulation using an immersed boundary method.
  F. Tessicini, G. Iaccarino, M. Fatica, M. Wang and R. Verzicco
• Towards LES wall models using optimization techniques.
  J. Templeton, M. Wang and P. Moin
• Optimal aeroacoustic shape design using approximation modeling.
  A. Marsden, M. Wang and P. Koumoutsakos
• Towards sail shape optimization of a modern clipper ship.
  T. Doyle, M. Gerritsen and G. Iaccarino
• An experimental investigation of high aspect ratio 2D sails.
  A. Crook, M. Gerritsen and N. N. Mansour
• Turbulence modelling in large-eddy simulations of the cloud-topped atmospheric boundary layer
  M. P. Kirkpatrick
• Secondary shear instability as a source of turbulence in the solar tachocline.
  K. Petrovay
• Numerical simulation of 2D compressible heat-driven convection.
  K. V. Parchevsky
• Numerical simulation of magnetoconvection in a stellar envelope.
  S. D. Ustyugov and A. N. Andrianov
• Vortex dynamics and angular momentum transport in accretion disks.
  H. Lin, J. A. Barranco and P. S. Marcus
• Interaction between turbulent flow and free surfaces.
  Y.-N. Young, F. E. Ham, M. Herrmann and N. Mansour
• Simulation of flows over wavy rough boundaries.
  A. Nakayama and K. Sakio
• Image-based computational modeling of blood flow in a porcine aorta bypass graft.
  V. Favier and C. A. Taylor
• Hemodynamic changes induced by stenting in elastic arteries.
  F. Nicoud
• Wavelet analysis of blood flow singularities by using ultrasound data.
  P. May
• Flow around cactus-shaped cylinders.
  S. Talley and G. Mungal
• Numerical simulation of turbulent polymer solutions.
  Y. Dubief
• Flat-plate boundary-layer transition in hypersonic flows.
  C. Stemmer
• Simple stochastic model for laminar-to-turbulent subcritical transition.
  S. Fedotov, I. Bashkirtseva and L. Ryashko
• An analytical model for predicting airfoil self-noise using wall-pressure statistics.
  M. Roger, S. Moreau and M. Wang
• Turbulence modeling in an immersed-boundary RANS method.
  G. Kalitzin and G. Iaccarino
• Skin friction estimation at high Reynolds numbers and Reynolds number effects for transport aircraft.
  A. Crook