MAE 6310

Turbulence and Turbulent Flows

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

Topics include the nature of turbulence and its physical manifestations, statistical description and scales of turbulent motion, turbulent free shear flows and wall bounded flows, Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations and closure models, introduction to large-eddy simulation, and mixing and reaction in turbulent flows.

Prerequisites MAE 6010.

Enrollment Information Enrollment limited to: graduate and professional students.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2024SP, 2023SP, 2022SP, 2021SP

Learning Outcomes

• Students will ne able to describe hydrodynamic instability.
• Students will be able to describe the turbulence energy cascade and the inertial range.
• Students will be able to describe scaling and self-similarity.
• Students will be able to describe intermittency in dissipation and in the inertial range.

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