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Turbulence Modeling

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Part of the book series: Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications ((FMIA,volume 113))

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This chapter addresses some of the challenges that arise when solving turbulent flow problems. It is not intended to provide a comprehensive account on turbulence modeling, rather, the intention is simply to introduce the subject and focus on the implementation details of some of the most popular turbulence models. The presentation is limited to incompressible turbulent fluid flow and begins with a general introduction to turbulence modeling. Then the Reynolds stress tensor that originates from the adopted averaging procedure and the Boussinesq hypothesis used in modeling the Reynolds stresses are presented. This is followed by a review of the k − ε and k − ω two-equation models. These are the most popular of the high Reynolds number and low Reynolds number turbulence models, respectively. The BSL and SST models are then introduced, both are derived by combining the k − ε and k − ω models so as to address their respective weaknesses. Finally the treatment of the near wall region is presented in detail.

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  1. Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

    F. Moukalled

  2. Engineering and Architecture, Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts, Horw, Switzerland

    L. Mangani

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

    M. Darwish

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Moukalled, F., Mangani, L., Darwish, M. (2016). Turbulence Modeling. In: The Finite Volume Method in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 113. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16874-6_17

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