Aerospace Engineering Room 105, uzol@metu.edu.tr

Study of Water Formations by Leonardo da Vinci

This graduate course will introduce fundamentals of turbulence modeling and simulation, including eddy-viscosity and Stress Transport models as well as fundamentals of Large Eddy Simulations (LES) and Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS). Applications of these models to the solutions of various aerospace, mechanical, chemical and civil engineering flow systems will be emphasized. This course will provide a significant insight into the ideas and theories behind various types and levels of turbulence modeling, and illustrate their effectiveness and deficiencies. It will also help increasing the awareness among students and engineers related to the physical accuracies and reliability of various turbulence models, which are usually considered to be a "magic black box" in computational simulations of engineering systems.