Tackling turbulence with supercomputers

被引：83

作者：

Moin, P ^{[1
]}

Kim, J ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES,LOS ANGELES,CA

来源：

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | 1997年 / 276卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1038/scientificamerican0197-62

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Predicting the swirling motions of air, water and other fluids just may be the most staggeringly difficult problem in classical physics. Wind tunnels used to be an engineer's best tool for simulating turbulence. Now supercomputers fill the bill: in many cases, such estimating the stresses on future hypersonic aircraft designs, computers can do what wind tunnels never could. Yet the complexities of flow still dwarf even the most powerful machines.

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页码：62 / 68

页数：7