Turbulent Flow

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: MECHENG 520. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Fundamentals of turbulent flows; the basic equations and the characteristic scales, statistical description of turbulence. Review of experimental results on the statistics and structure of turbulent flows. Methods for calculation of turbulent flows; the problem of closure, semi-empirical, phenomenological and analytical theories of turbulence, large-eddy and direct simulations of turbulence.