New Tools in Turbulence Modelling Les Houches School, May 21–31, 1996

Numerical large-eddy simulation techniques are booming at present and will have a decisive impact on industrial modeling and flow control. The book represents the general framework in physical and spectral space. It also gives the recent subgrid-scale models. Topics treated include compressible turbulence research, turbulent combustion, acoustic predictions, vortex dynamics in non-trivial geometries, flows in nuclear reactors and problems in atmospheric and geophysical sciences. The book addresses numerical analysts, physicists, and engineers.

Lecture 1 Recent approaches in large-eddy simulations of turbulence.- Lecture 2 Large eddy simulation: an introduction and perspective.- Lecture 3 Large-eddy simulation and statistical turbulence models: complementary approaches.- Lecture 4 Modeling compressibility effects on turbulence.- Lecture 5 Reynolds averaged and large eddy simulation modeling for turbulent combustion.- Lecture 6 Modeling tools for flow noise and sound propagation through turbulence.- Lecture 7 Vortices in compressible LES and non-trivial geometries.- Lecture 8 LES-DNS: The aeronautical and defense point of view.- lecture 9 Turbulence modeling in aeronautical flows.- Lecture 10 Fluid instabilities in inertial confinement fusion.- Lecture 11 Large eddy simulations in nuclear reactors thermal-hydraulics.- Lecture 12 Coherent vortices in rotating flows.- Lecture 13 Large-eddy simulation of air pollution dispersion: a review.- Lecture 14 Numerical simulations of compressible convection.- Lecture 15 Dynamical evolution of the turbulent interstellar medium at the kiloparsec scale.