Progress in the numerical simulation of turbulence has been rapid in the
1990s. New techniques both for the numerical approximation of the
Navier-Stokes equations and for the subgrid-scale models used in
large-eddy simulation have emerged and are being widely applied for both
fundamental and applied engineering studies, along with novel ideas for
the performance and use of simulation for compressible, chemically
reacting and transitional flows.
This collection of papers from the second ERCOFTAC Workshop on Direct
and Large-Eddy Simulation, held in Grenoble in September 1996, presents
the key research being undertaken in Europe and Japan on these topics.
Describing in detail the ambitious use of DNS for fundamental studies
and of LES for complex flows of potential and actual engineering
importance, this volume will be of interest to all researchers active in
the area.