The image represents the results of a hybrid
DNS/LES (by Zhiyin Yang and Peter Voke) computation of separation, transition and reattachment of the flow
over a plate with a semicircular leading edge.
References:
1) ZY Yang and PR Voke, "Large-Eddy Simulation of boundary layer separation and transition
at a change of surface curvature using a dissipation-range
subgrid scale model." J. Fluid Mech. 439, 305-333. 2001.
2) PR. Voke,
"Subgrid-scale modelling at low mesh Reynolds number,"
Theoret. Comput. Fluid Dynamics, 8, 131--143, 1996.
Contributor: Prof. Peter Voke,
Fluids Research Center, University of Surrey, U.K.