MAE 7340 - Analysis of Turbulent Flows

Fall. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: MAE 6010 or permission of instructor.

Staff.

Study of methods for calculating the properties of turbulent flows. Characteristics of turbulent flows. Direct numerical simulations, and the closure problem. Reynolds-stress equation: effects of dissipation, anisotropy, deformation. Transported scalars. Probability density functions (pdf’s): transport equations, relationship to second-order closures, stochastic modeling, and the Langevin equation. Large-eddy simulations: filtered and residual motions, Smagorinsky, and dynamics models. The course emphasized comparison of theory with experiment.