Annual Research Briefs 2009

• Preface
• Global mode decomposition of supersonic jet noise.
  J. W. Nichols, S. K. Lele and P. Moin
• Post-processing of large-eddy simulations for jet noise predictions.
  S. Mendez, M. Shoeybi, A. Sharma, S. K. Lele and P. Moin
• Full system scramjet simulation.
  R. Pecnik, V. E. Terrapon, F. Ham and G. Iaccarino
• A flamelet-based model for supersonic combustion.
  V. E. Terrapon, F. Ham, R. Pecnik and H. Pitsch
• Internal energy excitation and dissociation of molecular nitrogen in a compressing flow.
  T. E. Magin, M. Panesi, A. Bourdon, R. Jaffe and D. Schwenke
• Thermo-chemical dynamics and chemical quasi-equilibrium of plasmas in thermal non-equilibrium.
  T. E. Magin, B. Graille and M. Massot
• Analysis of shock tube equilibrium radiation for Earth re-entry applications.
  A. M. Brandis
• Uncertainty quantification of the transonic flow around the RAE2822 airfoil.
  J. A. S. Witteveen, A. Doostan, R. Pecnik and G. Iaccarino
• Uncertainty quantification for linear and weakly non-linear supersonic boundary-layer instability.
  O. Marxen, G. Iaccarino and E. S. G. Shaqfeh
• Non-adapted sparse approximation of PDEs with stochastic inputs.
  A. Doostan, H. Owhadi, A. Lashgari and G. Iaccarino
• Boundary procedures for the time-dependent stochastic Burgers’ equation.
  P. Pettersson, G. Iaccarino and J. Nordstrom
• Role of Weber number in primary breakup of turbulent liquid jets in crossflow.
  M. G. Pai, I. Bermejo-Moreno, O. Desjardins and H. Pitsch
• Modeling interfacial flows characterized by large density ratios with the level set method.
  M. Raessi and H. Pitsch
• Direct numerical simulation of three-dimensional swirling n-heptane spray flames.
  K. Luo, H. Pitsch and M. G. Pai
• A validation study of the flamelet approach’s ability to predict flame structure when fluid mechanics are fully resolved.
  E. Knudsen and H. Pitsch
• Towards regime identification and appropriate chemistry tabulation for computation of autoigniting turbulent reacting flows.
  M. Kostka, E. Knudsen and H. Pitsch
• Direct numerical simulation of soot formation in jet-engine combustors.
  G. Bansal, M. E. Mueller and H. Pitsch
• Lag-modeling approach for dissipation terms in large eddy simulation.
  S. G. Chumakov, J. Larsson, C. Schmitt and H. Pitsch
• Invariant algebraic wall-bounded turbulence modeling.
  M. Frewer
• Subgrid-scale modeling of shock-turbulence interaction for large-eddy simulations.
  I. Bermejo-Moreno
• Large-eddy simulation of a turbulent helium-air plume using the nLES method.
  G. C. Burton
• Large-eddy simulation of ultra-high Atwood number Rayleigh-Taylor mixing using the nLES method.
  G. C. Burton
• Dynamics and mixing of a sonic jet in a supersonic turbulent crossflow.
  S. Kawai and S. K. Lele
• Extension of CHIMPS for unstructured overset simulation and higher-order interpolation.
  S. Hahn, G. Iaccarino, S. Ananthan and J. D. Baeder
• Unphysical damping of turbulence when passing a numerically captured shock.
  J. Larsson
• Numerical errors generated by shock-capturing schemes in compressible multicomponent flows.
  E. Johnsen, F. Ham and J. Larsson
• Discontinuous Galerkin method with WENO limiter for flows with discontinuity.
  C. Liang, F. Ham and E. Johnsen
• Well-posedness and stability of a coupled fluid flow and heat transfer problem.
  J. Lindstrom and J. Nordstrom
• A robust scheme for compressible flows with a minimum artificial stabilization.
  S. Kang and H. Pitsch
• Pressure-correction algorithm using Poisson system with constant coefficients for fast two-phase simulations.
  D. Kim and P. Moin
• On the lattice Boltzmann method for multiphase flows.
  S. H. Kim and H. Pitsch
• Generalized three-dimensional characteristic boundary conditions for unstructured grids.
  G. Lodato
• Improvement of adjoint based methods for efficient computation of response surfaces.
  F. Palacios, K. Duraisamy and J. J. Alonso
• Construction of low-dissipative high-order well-balanced filter schemes for non-equilibrium flows.
  W. Wang, H. C. Yee, B. Sjogreen, T. Magin and C.-W. Shu
• Localized amplification of energy in turbulent channels.
  J. Jimenez
• Realistic MHD simulations of the Evershed flow in a sunspot penumbra.
  I. N. Kitiashvili, A. G. Kosovichev, A. A. Wray and N. N. Mansour
• The dynamics of a vesicle in shear flow.
  H. Zhao and E. S. G. Shaqfeh
• Numerical simulation of scalar mixing from a point source over a wavy wall.
  R. Rossi and G. Iaccarino
• Appendix: Center for Turbulence Research 2009 Roster