Influence of the inlet boundary conditions on the LES performance for the cavity flow benchmark

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Issue		E3S Web Conf. Volume 672, 2025 The 17^th ROOMVENT Conference (ROOMVENT 2024)


Article Number		02018
Number of page(s)		8
Section		Modelling & Measuring: Modelling & Measuring
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202567202018
Published online		05 December 2025

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