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For those who are interested in predicting the average quantities associated to a turbulent flow, the main difficulty comes from what is called the “closure” problem, which arises from the non-linearity of the Navier-Stokes equations: for instance, when averaging these equations, one obtains the well known Reynolds equations (previously obtained by Barré de Saint-Venant and Boussinesq (see [18])).
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Lesieur, M. (1987). Phenomenological Theories. In: Turbulence in Fluids. Mechanics of Fluids and Transport Processes, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3545-7_6
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