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A variety of modifications to the modeled dissipation rate transport equation that have been proposed during the past two decades to account for rotational strains are examined. The models are subjected to two crucial test cases: the decay of isotropic turbulence in a rotating frame and homogeneous shear flow in a rotating frame. It is demonstrated that these modifications do not yield substantially improved predictions for these two test cases and in many instances give rise to unphysical behavior. An alternative proposal, based on the use of the tensor dissipation rate, is made for the development of improved models.
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Speziale, C.G., Raj, R., Gatski, T.B. (1992). Modeling the Dissipation Rate in Rotating Turbulent Flows. In: Gatski, T.B., Speziale, C.G., Sarkar, S. (eds) Studies in Turbulence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2792-2_8
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