Annual Research Briefs 1996

• Simulation of jet impingement heat transfer with the k-epsilon-v² model.
  M. Behnia, S. Parneix and P. Durbin
• A new methodology for turbulence modelers using DNS database analysis.
  S. Parneix and P. Durbin
• A particle representation model for the deformation of homogeneous turbulence.
  S. C. Kassinos and W. C. Reynolds
• Modeling of inhomogeneous compressible turbulence using a two-scale statistical theory.
  F. Hamba
• Lewis number effects on partially premixed flames.
  G. R. Ruetsch and J. Ferziger
• Conditional moment closure of mixing and reaction in turbulent nonpremixed combustion.
  N. S. A. Smith
• Dynamic models for LES of turbulent front propagation with a spectral method.
  H. G. Im, T. S. Lund, and J. H. Ferziger
• Jet noise using large eddy simulation.
  F. Bastin
• Towards numerical simulations of trailing-edge aeroacoustics.
  M. Wang
• A model for the onset of vortex breakdown.
  K. Mahesh
• Compressing an elliptic vortex: transition to turbulence by tumble breakdown.
  F. S. Godeferd, N. N. Mansour & C. Cambon
• A new method for the adaptive control of vortex-wall interactions.
  P. Koumoutsakos
• Symmetries in turbulent boundary layer flows.
  M. Oberlack
• Near-wall models in large eddy simulations of flow behind a backward-facing step.
  W. Cabot
• Assessment of the subgrid-scale models at low and high Reynolds numbers.
  K. Horiuti
• Large-eddy simulations of flow around a NACA 4412 airfoil using unstructured grids.
  K. Jansen
• Progress on LES of flow past a circular cylinder.
  R. Mittal
• Experimental investigation of flow through an asymmetric plane diffuser.
  C. U. Buice and J. K. Eaton
• Progress in the large-eddy simulation of an asymmetric plane diffuser.
  M. Fatica & R. Mittal
• A numerical study of self-similarity in a turbulent plane wake using large-eddy simulation.
  S. Ghosal and M. M. Rogers
• On the generation of turbulent inflow conditions for boundary layer simulations.
  T. S. Lund, X. Wu, and K. D. Squires
• A new class of finite difference schemes.
  K. Mahesh