Turbulence kinetic energy budget during the afternoon transition – Part 2: A simple TKE model

A Simple Turbulent Kinetic Energy Equation and Aircraft Boundary Layer Turbulence

The basic science of turbulence has been known for many years, yet the knowledge has hardly become a part of operational aviation turbulence forecasting. The history of turbulence forecasting, which has primarily concentrated at elevations above the boundary layer, has been an amalgamation of empirical rules of thumb and forecaster intuition, not of strong theory and conceptual models. Turbulen...

A Study of Grid Resolution, Transition and Turbulence Model Using the Transonic Simple Straked Delta Wing

Abstract. Three-dimensional transonic flow over a delta wing is investigated using several turbulence models. The performance of linear eddy viscosity models and an explicit algebraic stress model is assessed at the start of vortex flow, and the results compared with experimental data. To assess the effect of transition location, computations that either fix transition aft of the leading edge o...

Simple solvable energy-landscape model that shows a thermodynamic phase transition and a glass transition.

When a liquid melt is cooled, a glass or phase transition can be obtained depending on the cooling rate. Yet, this behavior has not been clearly captured in energy-landscape models. Here, a model is provided in which two key ingredients are considered in the landscape, metastable states and their multiplicity. Metastable states are considered as in two level system models. However, their multip...

Numerical Modeling of Turbulent Processes in outflow of the Persian Gulf

In this study, measured hydrophysical data collected by the University of Miami researchers from the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz during the period December 1996 to March 1998 and climate data from the Qeshm island meteorological station were used to simulate water column turbulence south of the Qeshm Island, via General Ocean Turbulence Model (GOTM). The model does not use slip and fl...

Transition, part 2.