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Flow processes in practical applications are in most cases turbulent. Although the Navier-Stokes equations introduced in Sect. 2.5 are valid for turbulent flows as well—as we will see in the following section—due to the enormous computational effort that would be related to this, it usually is not possible to compute the flows directly on the basis of these equations. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce special modeling techniques to achieve numerical results for turbulent flows. In this section, we will consider this subject in an introductory way. In particular, we will address statistical turbulence models, the usage of which mostly constitutes the only way to compute practically relevant turbulent flows with “reasonable” computational effort.
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Schäfer, M. (2022). Computation of Turbulent Flows. In: Computational Engineering - Introduction to Numerical Methods. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76027-4_13
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