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Understanding turbulence is one of the oldest and most challenging scientific problems. Since the early works of Boussinesq and Reynolds in the late nineteenth century that formalized the basic characteristics of turbulent flows, the analysis of the extremely complex behavior of turbulence has raised the interest of many researchers.
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Chacón Rebollo, T., Lewandowski, R. (2014). Introduction. In: Mathematical and Numerical Foundations of Turbulence Models and Applications. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0455-6_1
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