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Large-Scale Compressible-Flow Direct Numerical Simulations

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Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent flows began in the early 1970s with the study of incompressible isotropic turbulence by Orszag and Patterson (Phys Rev Lett 28(2), 76–79, 1972) [8], and compressible DNS were not conducted until the 1980s.

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The author thanks Professor V. Michelassi and Drs B.J. Tester, A.P.S. Wheeler, R. Pichler and L.W. Chen for their contributions to this work. Funding for the low-pressure turbine work by General Electric is acknowledged. Computer time was provided by the UK turbulence consortium under EPSRC grant EP/L000261/1.

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Sandberg, R.D. (2018). Large-Scale Compressible-Flow Direct Numerical Simulations. In: Grigoriadis, D., Geurts, B., Kuerten, H., Fröhlich, J., Armenio, V. (eds) Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation X. ERCOFTAC Series, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63212-4_3

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