ME 5446 - Turbulence

Credits: 3
Basic notions, properties and scales in turbulent flows. Transport equations; Reynold’s stresses, mixing and phenomenological theories. Turbulence dynamics; mean and fluctuating kinetic energy balances, vorticity and temperature fluctuations. Statistical description of turbulence; correlations and spectra, transport, isotropy and homogeneity. Shear flows; plane jets, wakes and boundary layers (including planetary). Turbulent diffusion.

Cross Listed CHE 5446.
Prerequisite: ME 5440.