Large Eddy Simulation of a Turbulent Mixing Layer

A time-developing turbulent mixing layer is simulated numerically using large eddy simulation. Several statistics such as mean velocity, turbulent energy, velocity skewness and flatness factors, turbulent energy balance, and two-point correlation functions are computed to get a good agreement with experimental data. Especially, the production and dissipation terms in the turbulent energy equation are shown to be balanced near the center of the layer, and a streaky structure of the streamwise velocity component is also observed.