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Physics of Fluids 21 (2009) 041701
On the unsteady behavior of turbulence models
Robert Rubinstein 1, Wouter J.T. Bos 2
(2009)

Periodically forced turbulence is used as a test case to evaluate the predictions of two-equation and multiple-scale turbulence models in unsteady flows. The limitations of the two-equation model are shown to originate in the basic assumption of spectral equilibrium. A multiple-scale model based on a picture of stepwise energy cascade overcomes some of these limitations, but the absence of nonlocal interactions proves to lead to poor predictions of the time variation of the dissipation rate. A new multiple-scale model that includes nonlocal interactions is proposed and shown to reproduce the main features of the frequency response correctly.
1 :  NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC)
NASA
2 :  Laboratoire de Mecanique des Fluides et d'Acoustique (LMFA)
CNRS : UMR5509 – Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I – Ecole Centrale de Lyon – Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Physique/Mécanique/Mécanique des fluides

Sciences de l'ingénieur/Mécanique/Mécanique des fluides
flow instability – flow simulation – turbulence
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