A new turbulence model for porous media flows. Part I: Constitutive equations and model closure

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 52, Issue 19-20, 2009, Pages 4264-4272

  Teruel, Federico E ^a,b   Rizwan uddin, ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b CENTRO ATÓMICO BARILOCHE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

k model; Porous media; Turbulence modeling; Volume averaging

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY INTEGRALS; EDDY VISCOSITY; FLOWS IN POROUS MEDIA; NEW MODEL; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS-MEDIA FLOW; SIMPLE MODEL; SOLID WALL; TURBULENCE MODELING; VOLUME-AVERAGING;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; TURBULENCE;

TURBULENCE MODELS;

EID: 67650091614     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2009.04.017     Document Type: Article

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