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Turbulent Flow and Transport
- Instructor
- Prof. Ain Sonin
- Term
- Spring 2002
- Level
- Graduate
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- 1 solution · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 10 other files · 3 web pages
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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 2.27 Turbulent Flow and Transport, Spring 2002, Prof. Ain Sonin — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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8 files
- Buoyant Plumes, Thermals, etc. Download
- Introduction to Turbulence Models Download
- Dispersion in Pipe and Channel flow Download
- Review of Fundamental Laws and Constitutive Equations Download
- Concepts in Turbulence Download
- Free Shear Flows I: Jets, Wakes, etc.−Solutions Based on Simple Mean−Flow Closure Schemes Download
- Bounded Flows I: General Near−Wall Scaling Laws; Flows in Pipes, Channels, etc. Download
- Introduction to Turbulent Boundary Layers Download
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Lecture 2
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Lecture 3: Pope. Chap. 3 and 4.
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Lecture 4: For Laminar Flow: White. 2nd ed., pp. 253-260, 301-304, 470-481. Pope. Chap. 4 & 5. Schlichting. 7th ed. Chap. 24, pp.183-185. For Turbulent Shear Layer: Champagne, Pao, and Wygnaski. J. Fluid Mech ., 74 (1976), pp. 209-250. Further Reading: Hinze. Chap. 6. Abramovich. The Theory of Turbulent Jets . pp. 103-113, 120-125. Rajaratnam. “Turbulent Jets.” Elsevier, 1976. Rodi. Studies in Convection. Edited by B. E. Launder. Academic Press, 1975, pp. 79 ff. Townsend. Chap. 6 in The Structure of Turbulent Shear Flow . 2nd ed. Cambridge, 1976. Handouts: Selected experimental data and summaries.
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Lecture 5: Sec. 7.1-.7.2, 10.1-10.2
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Lecture 6: Pope. pp. 298 ff. White. pp. 409-421, 429-.443. Schlichting. Chap. 21. Bradshaw. Chap. 2. Cebeci & Smith. Analysis of Turbulent Boundary Layers . Academic, 1974.
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Lecture 7: Morton, Taylor & Turner. Proc. Roy. Soc . A, 234 (1956), pp. 1-23. Turner. Buoyancy Effects in Fluids . Cambridge, 1973, pp. 165-173, 194-200. Chen & Rodi. “A Review of Experimental Data.” Vertical Turbulent Buoyant Jets . Pergamon Press, 1980. Fay. “Buoyant Plumes and Wakes.” Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech., Vol. 5 (1973). List. “Turbulent Jets and Plumes.” Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech., Vol. 14 (1982). Rodi. Turbulent Buoyant Jets & Plumes . Pergamon Press, 1982.
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Lecture 8: Pope. Chap. 4, 10, 11. Chen & Yaw. Fundamentals of Turbulence Modeling . Taylor & Francis, 1998. Libby. Introduction to Turbulence. Taylor& Francis, 1996. LaJones, and under. Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer , 15 (1972): 301. LaJones, and under. Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer , 16 (1973): 1119. Bradshaw, Cebeci, and Whitelaw. Engineering Calculation Methods for Turbulent Flow. Academic Press, 1981. Rodi. Turbulence models and their applications in Hydraulics– “a state of the art review,” Int. Assoc. for Hydraulics. Research, Delft, 1984. Rodi. Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Experiments 3 , Elsevier (1996). Turbulence. Chap. 1 & 5. Edited by Bradshaw. Springer, 1978. Monin & Yaglom . Vol. 1. MIT Press, 1979, pp. 373-393, 393 ff.
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Lecture 9: Taylor, G. I. Proc. Roy. Soc . A: 219 (1953), pp. 186-203 (Laminar); 223 (1954), pp. 446-468, (Turbulent); 225 (1954), pp. 473-477. Proc. Phys. Soc . 67, 12.B (1955), pp. 857-869. Aris. R. Proc. Roy. Soc . A. 235 (1956), pp. 67-77. Probstein, R. F. Physicochemical Hydrodynamics . 2nd ed. Wiley, 1994, pp. 87, 93. Monin & Yaglom, Statistical Fluid Mechanics . Vol. 1. MIT, 1973, pp. 617-627. Levich, Physicochemical Hydrodynamics , Prentice Hall, 1962, pp. 116-120. Fischer, H. B. “Longitudinal dispersion and turbulent mixing in open channel flow.” Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech ., Vol. 5 (1973), pp. 59-78. Chatwin, P. C., and P. J. Sullivan. J. Fluid Mech ., 120 (1982), pp. 347-358. Smith, R. J. Fluid Mech ., 215 (1990), pp. 195-207.
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