# Turbulent Flow and Transport

Ocean waves breaking on a beach. (Image courtesy of California Environmental Resource Evaluation Service.)

### Instructor(s)

Prof. Ain Sonin

### MIT Course Number

2.27

### As Taught In

Spring 2002

### Level

Graduate

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Some Description
Instructor(s) | Prof.
As Taught In | Spring 2002
Course Number | 2.24
Level | Undergraduate/Graduate
Features | Lecture Notes, Student Work

## Course Description

## Course Features

- Selected lecture notes
- Assignments: problem sets (no solutions)

## Course Description

Turbulent flows, with emphasis on engineering methods. Governing equations for momentum, energy, and species transfer.

Turbulence: its production, dissipation, and scaling laws. Reynolds averaged equations for momentum, energy, and species transfer. Simple closure approaches for free and bounded turbulent shear flows. Applications to jets, pipe and channel flows, boundary layers, buoyant plumes and thermals, and Taylor dispersion, etc., including heat and species transport as well as flow fields. Introduction to more complex closure schemes, including the k-epsilon, and statistical methods in turbulence.

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- Mechanical Engineering > Fluid Mechanics
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Ain Sonin. 2.27 Turbulent Flow and Transport. Spring 2002. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

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