After successful completion of the course, students are able to

• comprehend the nature of turbulent flows and
• the necessary mathematical tools in their essence and
• to apply those in the course of their further studies (CFD course UE 322.057) and in engineering practice. In particular, the students are trained to get to the bottom of turbulence closures commonly adopted in modern computational fluid dynamics applied to engineering problems.

Governing equations for mass/momentum/energy transport, brief introduction in laminar-turbulent transition, statistical description of turbulent flows, scales in turbulent flows, mean-flow equations, shear flows (pipe and channel flows, attached boundary layers, free shear layers).

Presentation at the blackboard, skeleton script, uploading handouts covering specific topics.

A script will be prepared in the course of the lectures.

Exam.

A script is in preparation - supplement/completion: ongoing. A list of further reading is provided in the script!

Fundamental knowledge in continuum and fluid mechanics as well as thermodynamics required, as tought in typical courses for engineering students.