Large Eddy Simulation for Incompressible Flows

The first and most exhaustive work of its kind devoted entirely to the subject, Large Eddy Simulation presents a comprehensive account and a unified view of this young but very rich discipline. LES is the only efficient technique for approaching high Reynolds numbers when simulating industrial, natural or experimental configurations. The author concentrates on incompressible fluids and chooses his topics in treating with care both the mathematical ideas and their applications. The book addresses researchers as well as graduate students and engineers. The second edition was a greatly enriched version motivated both by the increasing theoretical interest in LES and the increasing number of applications. Two entirely new chapters were devoted to the coupling of LES with multiresolution multidomain techniques and to the new hybrid approaches that relate the LES procedures to the classical statistical methods based on the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations.

"The only one of its kind devoted entirely to the subject, Large Eddy Simulation presents a comprehensive account and a unified view of this young but very rich discipline. LES is the only efficient technique for approaching high Reynolds numbers when simulating industrial, natural or experimental configurations. The author concentrates on incompressible fluids and chooses topics well to treat both the mathematical ideas and the applications with care. The book addresses researchers as well as graduate students and engineers. The second edition was a greatly enriched version motivated both by the increasing theoretical interest in LES and the increasing number of applications. Two entirely new chapters were devoted to the coupling of LES with multiresolution multidomain techniques and to the new hybrid approaches that relate the LES procedures to the classical statistical methods based on the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations.

Formal Introduction to Scale Separation: Band-Pass Filtering.- Application to Navier-Stokes Equations.- Other Mathematical Models for the Large-Eddy Simulation Problem.- Functional Modeling (Isotropic Case).- Functional Modeling: Extension to Anisotropic Cases.- Structural Modeling.- Numerical Solution: Interpretation and Problems.- Analysis and Validation of Large-Eddy Simulation Data.- Boundary Conditions.- Coupling Large-Eddy Simulation with Multiresolution/Multidomain Techniques.- Hybrid RANS/LES Approaches.- Implementation.- Examples of Applications.- Coupling with Passive/Active Scalar.