Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow up to $Reτ=590$

Numerical simulations of fully developed turbulent channel flow at three Reynolds numbers up to $Reτ=590$ are reported. It is noted that the higher Reynolds number simulations exhibit fewer low Reynolds number effects than previous simulations at $Reτ=180.$ A comprehensive set of statistics gathered from the simulations is available on the web at http://www.tam.uiuc.edu/Faculty/Moser/channel.