Annual Research Briefs 1999

• Large-eddy simulation of a turbulent piloted methane/air diffusion flame (Sandia flame D).
  H. Pitsch
• Simultaneous measurements of velocity and scalar fields: application in crossflowing jets and lifted jet diffusion flames.
  L. K. Su and M. G. Mungal
• Experimental validation studies for large-eddy simulation of a gas turbine main burner.
  C. M. Sipperley, J. Y. Huh, C. F. Edwards, and C. T. Bowman
• Large eddy simulation of a turbulent diffusion flame with Conditional Source-term Estimation.
  H. Steiner and W. K. Bushe
• Direct numerical simulation of a turbulent reacting jet.
  B. J. Boersma
• Influence of boundary conditions in LES of premixed combustion instabilities.
  T. Schönfeld and T. Poinsot
• Exploration of fundamental matters of acoustic instabilities in combustion chambers.
  O. M. Umurhan
• WKB approximation for acoustics in combustion chambers with arbitrary steady-state heat release profiles.
  O. M. Umurhan
• Progress towards a large eddy simulation of premixed turbulent combustion in stagnating turbulence.
  D. S. Louch
• Large scale reaction front dynamics in anisotropic reaction-diffusion systems.
  S. Fedotov
• Conditional Moment Closure modeling of turbulent non-premixed combustion with reduced chemistry.
  W. K. Bushe and R. W. Bilger
• One-dimensional quasi-static continuum model of muscle contraction as a distributed control system.
  M. Aigner and J. Heegaard
• Application of machine learning algorithms to flow modeling and optimization.
  S. Müller, M. Milano and P. Koumoutsakos
• Parameter optimization in jet flow control.
  A. Hilgers
• Aspects of turbulent/non-turbulent interfaces.
  D. K. Bisset, J. C. R. Hunt and M. M. Rogers
• Evaluation of data from direct numerical simulations of transition due to free-stream turbulence.
  R. G. Jacobs and D. S. Henningson
• Coherence in the turbulent cascade.
  J. Jiménez
• Analysis of the data base from a DNS of a separating turbulent boundary layer.
  M. Skote and D. S. Henningson
• Large eddy simulation of a forced round turbulent buoyant plume in neutral surroundings.
  A. J. Basu and N. N. Mansour
• Formation of sprays from conical liquid sheets.
  Bill Peck and N. N. Mansour
• RANS simulations of rotating flows.
  G. Iaccarino, A. Ooi, B. A. Pettersson Reif and P. Durbin
• A nonlinear constitutive relationship for the v2-f model.
  B. A. Pettersson Reif
• Computation of heat transfer in a linear turbine cascade.
  G. Kalitzin and G. Iaccarino
• Application of the v2-f model to aerospace configurations.
  G. Kalitzin
• Structure-based modeling for homogeneous MHD turbulence.
  S. C. Kassinos and W. C. Reynolds
• Advances in direct deconvolution modeling of subgrid-scales for flows with discontinuities.
  N. A. Adams
• On the use of the optimal control theory for deriving wall models for LES.
  F. Nicoud and J. Baggett
• On wakes and near-wall behavior in coarse large-eddy simulation of channel flow with wall models and second-order finite-difference methods.
  W. Cabot, J. Jiménez and J. S. Baggett
• LES with wall models for trailing-edge aeroacoustics.
  M. Wang
• Large eddy simulation of compressible turbulent jets.
  B. J. Boersma and S. K. Lele
• Towards large-eddy simulation in complex geometries.
  K. Mahesh, G. R. Ruetsch and P. Moin
• Commutative filters for LES on unstructured meshes.
  A. L. Marsden and O. V. Vasilyev
• A velocity-pressure Navier-Stokes solver using a B-spline collocation method.
  O. Botella
• Comparison of AGE and spectral methods for the simulation of far-wakes.
  D. K. Bisset and M. M. Rogers
• Simulation of materials-processing plasmas.
  E. P. Hammond, K. Mahesh and P. Moin