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Spectral Methods in Fluid Mechanics

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NACA Contractor Report, 178103. ICASE, NASA Langley Research Centre, Hampton, Virginia, (May 1986)

Abstract

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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