Renormalization group theory for turbulence: Eddy-viscosity type model based on an iterative averaging method

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 143-153

  Nagano, Yasutaka ^a   Itazu, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; VECTORS; VISCOSITY;

BOUSSINESQ POSTULATE; EDDY VISCOSITY MODEL; ITERATIVE AVERAGING METHOD; KOLMOGOROV CONSTANT; RECURSION RELATION; RENORMALIZATION GROUP THEORY; TRANSPORT EQUATION; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; YAKHOT-ORSZAG THEORY;

TURBULENCE;

EDDIES; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0030989361     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869156     Document Type: Article

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