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Spectral Methods in Fluid Dynamics

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Spectral methods have been widely used in simulation of stability, transition, and turbulence as discussed by the authors, and their applications to both compressible and incompressible flows, to viscous as well as inviscid flows, and also to chemically reacting flows are surveyed.
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Fundamental aspects of spectral methods are introduced. Recent developments in spectral methods are reviewed with an emphasis on collocation techniques. Their applications to both compressible and incompressible flows, to viscous as well as inviscid flows, and also to chemically reacting flows are surveyed. The key role that these methods play in the simulation of stability, transition, and turbulence is brought out. A perspective is provided on some of the obstacles that prohibit a wider use of these methods, and how these obstacles are being overcome.

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Regular Article: A Fast Spectral Algorithm for Nonlinear Wave Equations with Linear Dispersion

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use linearly implicit multistep methods, with the innovation of choosing different methods for different ranges in Fourier space-high accuracy at low wavenumbers and A-stability at high wenumbers.
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Advances in Pseudospectral Methods for Optimal Control

TL;DR: In this article, the concept of primal-dual weighted interpolation is used to articulate a unifled theory for all pseudospectral (PS) methods for optimal control, which illuminates the previously hidden fact of the unit weight function implicit in the PS method based on Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto points.
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Direct numerical simulation of transition in a sharp cone boundary layer at Mach 6: fundamental breakdown

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of second-mode fundamental resonance, or (K-type) breakdown, is investigated using high-resolution "controlled” transition simulations for the laboratory conditions of the hypersonic transition experiments conducted at Purdue University.
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Numerical study of the instability of the Hartmann layer

TL;DR: In this article, the Hartmann thickness-based Reynolds number is calculated for an electrically conducting incompressible fluid between two parallel unbounded insulating walls affected by a wall-normal magnetic field (the Hartmann flow).
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Navier-Stokes Equations

Roger Temam
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A spectral element method for fluid dynamics: Laminar flow in a channel expansion

TL;DR: In this article, a spectral element method was proposed for numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations, where the computational domain is broken into a series of elements, and the velocity in each element is represented as a highorder Lagrangian interpolant through Chebyshev collocation points.
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Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flows

TL;DR: In this article, the Navier-Stokes equations are used to model the evolution of a turbulent mixing layer and turbulent channel flow in incompressible Newtonian fluids. And the results of simulations of homogeneous turbulence in uniform shear are presented graphically and discussed graphically.
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Spectral methods for problems in complex geometries

TL;DR: In this paper, a new iteration procedure is introduced to solve the full matrix equations resulting from spectral approximations to nonconstant coefficient boundary-value problems in complex geometries, and the work required to solve these spectral equations exceeds that of solving the lowest-order finite-difference approximation to the same problem by only O(N log N).

Improved turbulence models based on large eddy simulation of homogeneous, incompressible turbulent flows

TL;DR: In this paper, a subgrid scale similarity model is developed that can account for system rotation and the main effect of rotation is to increase the transverse length scales in the rotation direction, and thereby decrease the rates of dissipation.