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The nature of compressible fluid dynamic turbulence is studied via convergence tests in 2- and 3-dimensions with mesh resolutions ranging as high as $2048^2$ in 2-D and $1024^3$ in 3-D. The results of this study are related to turbulence in C.F.D. models of gravitationally stratified thermally driven convection in three dimensions.
Results are presented in terms of spectral analyses, tests of subgrid--scale models, and interactive volume visualization of complex fluid flows.
This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under the Grand Challenge Application Group for Coupled Fields and Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics grant ASC-9217394.
