MAE 6310
Turbulence and Turbulent Flows
Topics include the nature of turbulence and its physical manifestations, statistical description and scales of turbulent motion, turbulent free shear flows and wall bounded flows, Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations and closure models, introduction to large-eddy simulation, and mixing and reaction in turbulent flows.
Topics
- Students will ne able to describe hydrodynamic instability.
- Students will be able to describe the turbulence energy cascade and the inertial range.
- Students will be able to describe scaling and self-similarity.
- Students will be able to describe intermittency in dissipation and in the inertial range.
Official roster learning outcomes
Prerequisites & course information
MAE 6010.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027