Turbulence Links Around the WWW

Version 1.3 by George B. Ross (gross@ionasoftware.com)

Here are some links to a variety of turbulence modelling and related WWW sites, please excuse the mess, as this list is currently under major modification, eventually this single page will be split up by subject into multiple pages. Some sites are listed under multiple categories for obvious reasons. Institute and project abbreviations used throughout this document can be found at the bottom of this page.

Generic Turbulence Sites

This section has links to sites that discuss turbulence in general terms.

CFD Resource Online by Jonas Larsson
New Links - submitted by people just like you. Eventually, these links will show up on this page.
Turbulence Book List
Turbulence on Yahoo
The Center for Applied Parallel Processing (CAPP) at University of Colorado
The geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics project (GAFD) at various universities
The Large Scale Computational Fluid Science Group at UIUC does work on turbulence
Turbulence at LANL
Center for Chaos and Turbulence Studies (CATS) at Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark
Turbulence by the Numbers is a discussion on turbulence with a few results
Turbulence Research Laboratory at University of Maryland at College Park

Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS)

This section has links to sites with DNS information and results.

Turbulence and Heat Transfer Lab in Tokyo has flow visualization album online DNS database of turbulence and heat transfer
DNS of Turbulence at LANL
LES of Boundary Layer Transition on Swept Wings PostScript paper (142kb) via ftp comparing LES and DNS
Geophysical Turbulence Program in Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division at UCAR
Implementation of a General Purpose Finite-Difference Algorithm on the CM-5 for Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulence PostScript paper (405kb) via ftp by Danesh Tafti, September 1993
Research interests of MEAM Faculty at University of Michigan
Research interests of James Riley at University of Washington
Research interests of George Karniadakis at Brown University
Research interests of Said Elghobashi at UC Irvine
Research interests at J.M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Dynamics in the Netherlands, this is a co-op of TU Eindhoven and TU Delft
Partial reports of SCOUT at MIT
Research interests of Catherine Crawford at Brown University
Research interests of David Newman at Brown University
Research interests of George Karniadakis at Brown University
Research interests of LIAN-PING WANG at University of Delaware

Large Eddy Simulation (LES)

LES of Boundary Layer Transition on Swept Wings PostScript paper (142kb) via ftp comparing LES and DNS
Finite-Differenced Large-Eddy Simulations of Incompressible Turbulent Flows using the Dynamic Subgrid-Scale Stress Model: Effects of Test Filters and Numerical Approximations PostScript paper (2.4Mb) via ftp by F. M. Najjar and D. K. Tafti, August 1995
Features and Implementation Issues for High-order Finite Difference Algorithm for Direct and Large Eddy Simulations of Incompressible Turbulence on the CM-5 PostScript paper (1.8Mb) via ftp by Danesh Tafti, June 1994
NCSA's March to the Teraflop--Appendix LES study
Oceanography Section (OCE) Annual Scientific Report FY93 by UCAR.
GIS Publications On-Line Canuto, V.M. 1994. Large eddy simulation of turbulence: A subgrid scale model including shear, vorticity, rotation, and buoyancy. Astrophys. J. 428, 729-752
Turbulence above a forest canopy by Shaohua Shen at Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Boundary Layers and Turbulence at UCAR
Large-Eddy Simulation of Boundary-Layer Transition on Swept Wings link to (142kb) PostScript version of NASA Langley Research paper by Xiaoli Huai , Ronald D. Joslin and Ugo Piomelli
Geophysical Turbulence Program in Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division at UCAR
Research interests at ICASE
Research interests of Computational Fluid Dynamics Group at NCSA
Research interests of Ugo Piomelli at University of Maryland
Research interests of John C. Wyngaard at Pennsylvania State University
Research interests at J.M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Dynamics in the Netherlands, this is a co-op of TU Eindhoven and TU Delft
Research interests of Meteorology Faculty at Pennsylvania State University
Research Evaluation at IET in Denmark (mostly in Danish)
Research interests at DCfACFD at IET
Chemical Volatilization from Shallow Liquid Waste Impoundments and Water Bodies at SEECAT
Chemical Volatilization from Shallow Liquid Waste Impoundments and Water Bodies Images at SEECAT
- Re = 64 (6kb GIF image)
- Re = 648 (6kb GIF image)
- Re = 6480 (6kb GIF image)
Research interests of George Karniadakis at Brown University
Research interests of Kobayashi & Taniguchi Lab at University of Tokyo
Research interests of LIAN-PING WANG at University of Delaware
Turbulence Modeling for Thrust Reverser Flow Prediction Methods by Kenneth E. Wurtzler at WL/FIMC

Boundary Free Shear Flows (Jets, Wakes, Shear/Mixing Layers)

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at USC
The small-scale structure of turbulence at TU Eindhoven in the Netherlands
Visualization and feature extraction in isotropic Navier-Stokes turbulence at Rutgers University
3D Turbulent Shear Flow at Mach 1.1 at NCSA
Research Evaluation at Institute of Energy Technology in Denmark (mostly in Danish)
Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Combustion at Sandia National Laboratories

Wall Bounded Shear Flows (Boundary Layers, Pipe/Channel Flow)

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at USC
Theory and Computation of 3 Dimensional Turbulent Boundary Layer at Syracuse.
Turbulence, Nonlinear Dynamics and Colloidal Systems at TU Eindhoven in the Netherlands covers scaling behavior, swirling pipe flow, and coherent structures
The Onset of Turbulence in a Shear Flow Over a Flat Plate at UIUC
Renormalization-Group-Based (RNG) Turbulence Model Predicts Laminar-Turbulent Flow Transition, at NAS
A Predictor-Corrector Method for Identifying Vortex Tubes in Turbulent Flow by David C. Banks at ICASE
Reduced modeling for 2D turbulence by Hongbing Yao at Rutgers University
A Comparison of the Predictive Capabilities of Several Turbulence Models Using Upwind and Central-Difference Computer Codes link to (2.2Mb) PostScript version of AIAA Paper AIAA-93-0192 by Christopher L. Rumsey and Veer N. Vatsa
Large-Eddy Simulation of Boundary-Layer Transition on Swept Wings link to (142kb) PostScript version of NASA Langley Research paper by Xiaoli Huai , Ronald D. Joslin and Ugo Piomelli
Modeling the Transition Region link to (221kb) PostScript version of NASA CR-4492 by Bart A. Singer
Transition to turbulence in a plane channel flow (2.7Mb) mpeg movie
Research interests at WHOI COFDL
Research interests of Faculty at University of Minnesota
Research interests of Catherine Crawford at Brown University
Research interests of Lawrence Sirovich at Brown University
Research interests of George Karniadakis at Brown University
Research interests of George Karniadakis when still at MIT
Research interests at ICASE
Research interests of Computational Fluid Dynamics Group at NCSA
Research interests of Ugo Piomelli at University of Maryland
Flow Around a Submarine at AHPCRC
Airflow Past an Automobile at AHPCRC
Research interests of Osama A. Kandil at Old Dominion University
Research interests at J.M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Dynamics in the Netherlands, this is a co-op of TU Eindhoven and TU Delft
Past Research in Acoustics at Pennsylvania State University
Research interests of CIRES at University of Colorado
Research interests at CSIRO in Australia
Computational Aeroacoustics at NASA Langley
Structures in a Turbulent Open Channel Flow at SEECAT
Turbulent and Shear Flows Studies at IIHR
Computational Fluid Dynamics Studies at IIHR
Turbulence Modeling for Thrust Reverser Flow Prediction Methods by Kenneth E. Wurtzler at WL/FIMC
Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Cylinder Juncture Flowfields by Donald P. Rizzetta at WL/FIMC
Numerical Simulation of a Jet Expulsion from an Aircraft Forebody, with Comparison to Experiment by Capt James A. Mundy at WL/FIMC
The Effect of Leading-Edge Cross-Sectional Geometry on Vortex Flow Aerodynamics by T. Sean Tavares at WL/FIMC
Numerical Simulation of Delta Wing Roll by Raymond E. Gordnier at WL/FIMC
The Flowfield Past the X-24C Reentry Vehicle by Datta Gaitonde at WL/FIMC
Parallel Processing for Computational Fluid Dynamics by Stephen Scherr at WL/FIMC
Thermal and Fluids Engineering Group at University of Alabama at Birmingham
List of Projects at University of Trieste

Plasma Turbulence

Plasma Turbulence on Parallel Computers at ORNL
Scientific Visualization of Gyrofluid Tokamak Turbulence Simulation at UIUC
Suppression of Plasma Turbulence by Velocity Shear at ORNL
Magneto-Hydrodynamics at ORNL
Fusion Energy at MIT
Numerical Tokamak Project at LANL

Combustion

Engine Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Combustion at Sandia National Laboratories
Turbulence, Combustion Diagnostics, and Computational Physics at Yale
Flow Turbulence and Combustion at ERCOFTAC
Research interests of A.M.Savill at Cambridge
Research interests of Faculty at University of Minnesota
Research interests of MEAM Faculty at University of Michigan
Research interests of Ömer Savas at UC Berkeley
Research interests at ICASE
Research interests of Andrew M. Eaton at Brigham Young University
Creating the Numerical Engine at NCSA
Research interests at J.M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Dynamics in the Netherlands, this is a co-op of TU Eindhoven and TU Delft
Research Evaluation at Institute of Energy Technology in Denmark (mostly in Danish)
Research interests at DCfACFD
Publications of CAGCT
Thermal and Fluids Engineering Group at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Turbulent Heat Transfer

Turbulence With Stagnation-Region Heat Transfer - NAS
Convective Turbulence and Mixing in Astrophysics at ANL
Spiral Defect Turbulence research at UC Santa Barbara
Grand Challenge Problems on the Sp1: Convective Turbulence and Mixing in Astrophysics at University of Chicago
Astrophysics: Convective Turbulence and Mixing at ANL
Pattern Formation and Defect Turbulence in Spatially-Extended Dynamic Systems by Matthew Meyer at Cornell University
Geophysical Turbulence Program in Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division at UCAR
Research interests of Robert Breidenthal at University of Washington
Research interests at WHOI COFDL
Research interests of Bob Stein at Michigan State
Research interests of Faculty at University of Minnesota
Research interests of MEAM Faculty at University of Michigan
Research interests of James Riley at University of Washington
Research interests at ICASE
Research interests of Computational Fluid Dynamics Group at NCSA
Research interests at J.M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Dynamics in the Netherlands, this is a co-op of TU Eindhoven and TU Delft
Research interests at DCfACFD
List of Projects at University of Trieste
Natural Convection in Cavities at Trieste (old)
Research interests of Lawrence Sirovich at Brown University
Research of Jan Declercq at Purdue University and KU Leuven in Belgium
The Flowfield Past the X-24C Reentry Vehicle by Datta Gaitonde at WL/FIMC
Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Combustion at Sandia National Laboratories
Thermal and Fluids Engineering Group at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Metal Casting

CASTech by CastCAE
Liquid Steel Project at PSC
Research interests at CSIRO in Australia

Atmospheric, Oceanographic, and Planetary Turbulence

Manuscripts from the University of Washington Atmospheric Science Department
Applications Update on the CRAY T3D System - "Eddy-resolving capability adds new dimension to global ocean modeling" by the Cray Corporation.
Oceanography Section (OCE) Annual Scientific Report FY93 by UCAR.
Geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics (GAFD) at Colorado
Atmospheric Turbulence Laboratory at UC Irvine
The Climate and Global Dynamics Division at NCAR
USCAE Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at Southern Cal
GIS Publications On-Line Canuto, V.M. 1994. Large eddy simulation of turbulence: A subgrid scale model including shear, vorticity, rotation, and buoyancy. Astrophys. J. 428, 729-752
Grand Challenge Problems on the Sp1: Convective Turbulence and Mixing in Astrophysics at ANL
Astrophysics: Convective Turbulence and Mixing at ANL
Planetary Boundary Layer Manuscripts at University of Washington
Turbulence above a forest canopy by Shaohua Shen at Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Boundary Layers and Turbulence at UCAR
Coherent Structure in Turbulent Fluid Flow at NCAR
Research at NCAR A High-Resolution Simulation of the North Atlantic Ocean, can download an mpeg movie
Geophysical Turbulence Program in Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division at UCAR
Members of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at NCSA
Research interests of Robert Breidenthal at University of Washington
Research interests at WHOI COFDL
Research interests at NCAR
Research interests of Bob Stein at Michigan State
Research interests of Juan Restrrepo at ANL
Research interests of James Riley at University of Washington
Research interests of David Jay at University of Washington
Research interests of Elbridge Gerry Puckett at University of Chicago
Research interests of John E. Hart at University of Colorado
Research interests of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Faculty at University of Wisconsin
Research interests of Le L.M.D. aJussieu at Universite de Paris (in French)
Research interests of John C. Wyngaard at Pennsylvania State University
Large-Scale Simulations of Turbulent Geothermal Convection on a Network of Supercomputers at AHPCRC
Research interests at J.M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Dynamics in the Netherlands, this is a co-op of TU Eindhoven and TU Delft
Coherent Vortex Structures in Planetary Turbulence at NCAR
1-D Mixed Layer Model of Planetary Boundary Layers by the OPBL Laboratory at the Naval Postgraduate School
Research interests of F.P. Pijpers at University of Uppsala
Research interests of Meteorology Faculty at Pennsylvania State University
Research interests of Environmental Sciences Faculty at University of East Anglia
Research interests of Complex Systems Faculty at UIUC
Research interests of CIRES at University of Colorado
Turbulent Earth Project at PSC
Inner Turbulence of the Sun Project at PSC
High Tide in Ocean Modeling Project at PSC
Chemical Volatilization from Shallow Liquid Waste Impoundments and Water Bodies at SEECAT
Chemical Volatilization from Shallow Liquid Waste Impoundments and Water BodiesRe=64 GIF image (6kb) at SEECAT
Chemical Volatilization from Shallow Liquid Waste Impoundments and Water BodiesRe=648 GIF image (6kb) at SEECAT
Chemical Volatilization from Shallow Liquid Waste Impoundments and Water BodiesRe=6480 GIF image (6kb) at SEECAT
Dredging Research Program contract report CR DRP-91-1 for the Army
Ocean Theory Group at the University of Victoria
Climate Modelling Group at the University of Victoria
Ocean Turbulence Lab at the University of Victoria
Thermal and Fluids Engineering Group at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Astrophysical Turbulence

Convective Turbulence and Mixing in Astrophysics at ANL
Ake Nordlund's 3-D Dynamics and Visualization in Denmark
Astrophysics: Convective Turbulence and Mixing at ANL

Biological Flows

Heart Throb Project at PSC

Chaos and Turbulence

Center for Chaos and Turbulence Studies (CATS) at Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark
Turbulence - a philosophical look at turbulence, chaos and life
Chaos by Design develops applications of chaos theory for data analysis and signal processing.

Simulation Results

This section has links to sites that give simulation results but no other information.

bignick.mpg Large scale movie of Turbulent Convection. This movie shows a short time sequence of enstrophy (vorticity squared) from a strongly rotationally constrained box of turbulent convection, exhibiting the tube-like behaviour of this turbulence.
CAPP Home Page Center for Applied Parallel Processing at the University of Colorado at Boulder
Concept Car at University of Minnesota
Transition to turbulence in a plane channel flow (2.7Mb) mpeg movie
Results showing transition to turbulence in vortex street, by Xiaogang Li at CMU

Experimental Results

This section has links to sites that give experiment results but no other information.

Course/Workshop information

European Research Community On Flow Turbulence And Combustion (ERCOFTAC)workshops/conferences for 1995-1997.
von Kármán Institute for Fluid Dynamics Lecture Series, 5 day lectures given every year, January thru June, on a variety of subjects.
IMACS Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Aspects of Turbulence, February 10-11, 1994.
Computational Fluid Dynamics Workshop at NCSA (date?)

Sites to Categorize

This section has links to sites that I haven't had time to categorize by topic.

Turbulence Modelling Interest Group at ERCOFTAC
Joseph A.C. Humphrey - heat transfer at UC Berkeley
TURBULENCE ET SYSTEMES DYNAMIQUES
ME Faculty Homepages - Dr. Tim Colonius at Cal Tech
Fluid Mechanics at Cambridge University
Fiche d'expertise de Andre Garon (in French) finite elements, turbulence, aerothermique
ME - Research Facilities at University of Maryland turbulence and CFD
High Performance Computing Challenge at Stanford University
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research at NOAA/OAR
6th Intl. Symp. on Flow Modelling CALL FOR PAPERS (FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT)
Netlib Conference Database List
http://www.netlib.org/na-digest/93/v93n46
Schlieren Photography at South Florida University
Queen Mary and Westfield College Staff
Research and development projects at TU Meunchen
http://www.iway.org/nic/uchi/application.html
NCSA's March to the Teraflop--Appendix at UIUC
Computational Fluid Dynamics in Switzerland
Plasma Physics (CRPP) in Switzerland
Ketil Brydoys hjemmeside at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (in Norwegian)
Aerodynamics and Turbulence Lab at the University of Houston.

Institute and Project Abbreviations

Links are to the institute or project homepage

AHPCRC - Army High Performance Computing Research Center at the University of Minnesota
ANL - Argonne National Laboratory
CAGCT - Centre for Advanced Gas Combustion Technology, at Queen's University in Canada
CAPP - Center for Applied Parallel Processing, at University of Colorado
CMU - Carnegie Mellon University
CIRES - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, joint venture by University of Colorado and NOAA
COFDL - Coastal & Ocean Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at WHOI
CSIRO - ??? in Australia
DCfACFD - Danish Center for Applied Computational Fluid Dynmics Group in Denmark
ERCOFTAC - European Research Community On Flow Turbulence And Combustion
GAFD - Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
ICASE - Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering
IET - Institute of Energy Technology at Aalborg University
IIHR - Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research at University of Iowa
LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NAS - Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation, at NASA
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications, at UIUC
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPS - Naval Postgraduate School
NSF - National Science Foundation
ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
OPBL - Oceanic Planetary Boundary Layer Laboratory at NPS
PSC - Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, joint venture of CMU and the University of Pittsburgh
SEECAT - South European Engineering Center for Advanced Transport Phenomena
UC - University of California system
UCAR - University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
UIUC - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
USC - University of Southern California
USRA - Universities Space Research Association
WHOI - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WL/FIMC - Wright Laboratory - CFD Research Branch

Sites that are down

The National MetaCenter for Computational Science
CRPC Applications at Syracuse University

Pertinent to my research topic (stratified wakes)

Research interests of Robert Breidenthal at University of Washington
USCAE Geophysical Fluid Dynamics has a stratified turbulent wakes section
Turbulence by the Numbers is a discussion on turbulence with a few results
Turbulence and Heat Transfer Lab in Tokyo has flow visualization album online DNS database of turbulence and heat transfer
Geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics (GAFD) at Colorado
Geophysical Turbulence Program at NCAR
Research interests of David Jay at University of Washington
Research interests of Ugo Piomelli at University of Maryland
Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Combustion at Sandia National Laboratories

since 01 September 1995

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