Subject Code: CE6L509 Name: Turbulent Fluid Flow L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3

Pre-requisite: None
Statistical structures of turbulence; two-dimensional flow structures and effect of roughness; measurements of turbulence; three-dimensional flow structures driven by turbulence; secondary currents; diffusion and dispersion; turbulence model calculations; Coherent structures; bursting phenomena; large scale vortical motions; physical models of coherent structures; numerical simulations of coherent structures; wave boundary layer.
Text/Reference Books:

  • Pope, S. B., Turbulent Flows, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2003.
  • Lesieur, M., Turbulence in Fluids, Third Edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, the Netherlands, 1997.
  • Hinze, J. O., Turbulence, An Introduction to Its Mechanism and Theory, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1959.
  • Biswas, G. and Eswaran, V., Turbulent Flows, Fundamentals, Experiments and Modeling, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2002.
  • Garde, R. J., Turbulent Flows, Third Edition, New Age Science Limited, New Delhi, 2010.