FUNCTIONAL REYNOLDS STRESS MODELING
by Joan G. Moore and John Moore
Overview
This book presents contributions to the understanding of turbulence centered around the development and application of a family of Reynolds stress models for incompressible rotating flows. A goal of this work is the development of practical models of the Reynolds stress equations which may be implemented in CFD codes, for example as used in the aerospace industry. Reynolds stress models offer the advantage of naturally including the effects of rotation, curvature and developing flow on the turbulence.
Some Highlights:
- Four new Reynolds stress models, with increasing levels of functionality.
- Models for slow pressure-strain and anisotropy of dissipation based on DNS data.
- Contributions of rapid distortion theory to rapid pressure-strain modeling.
- Comparison of model results with a broad database - shear flow, channel flow DNS, rotating channels and pipes, flat plate transition, rapid distortion theory.
- Use of glyphs to visualize Reynolds stress tensors.
- A new model for the spectrum tensor, and comparisons with turbulence spectra.
- Illumination of high rotation flows with spectrum tensor glyphs.
While this book contains the detail of a research monograph, for completeness it also includes background, derivations, and related topics. It should be useful to graduate students, researchers, academics, and code developers, interested in the fields of turbulence and turbulence modeling.
CD included with data analysis, derivation of equations, and color figures.
The Moores have collaborated on turbulence and fluid dynamics research for 40 years: - development of CFD codes for three-dimensional flow, experimental measurements and data analysis, turbulence modeling, and performance evaluation of turbomachinery blade rows. This book is the result of an 8-year research project on Reynolds stress modeling.
from the Homepage of J&J Moore, http://moore64.home.comcast.net. February 2007