Quick Information

Class location: 3026 SC

Time and days: 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Tuesday/Thursday

Instructor: Professor Frederick Stern

Office: 223C Stanley Hydraulics Lab

Phone: (319) 335-5215

Email: frederick-stern@uiowa.edu

Office hours: By appointment

Other classes: 52:020 (ENGR:2510), ME:6260, ME:5160:0001

Research website: Stern Lab

Teaching Assistant

Name: Christian Milano

Email: christian-milano@uiowa.edu

Duties: HW questions and grading

TA office hours: 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Tuesday/Thursday, IIHR

Lecture Notes

Chapter 1 (Introduction)

Chapter 2 (Averages, Correlations and Spectra)

Chapter 3 (Turbulent Flow Equations)

• Part 1: Instantaneous Equations
• Part 2: Reyolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations
• Part 3: Mean and Turbulent Kinetic Energy Equations
• Part 4: Dissipation Rate, Reynolds Stress, Mean and Fluctuating Vorticity and Enstrophy Equations 

Chapter 4 (Scales of Turbulence)

• Part 0: The Energy Cascade and Kolmogorov Hypotheses
• Part 1: Spectral representation of e
• Part 2: Consequence of Isotropy
• Part 3: The Smallest Scales
• Part 4: Inertial Subrange
• Part 5: Relations between 1D and 3D spectra
• Part 6: 1D Spatial and Time Series Spectra
• Part 7: Analysis of Kolmogorov Spectra
  • Anisotropy theory
• Part 8: Structure Functions

Chapter 5 (Isotropic Turbulence)

• Part 1: Energy Decay
• Part 2: Modes of Isotropic Decay and Self-Similarity
• Part 3: Equation for Two-Point Correlations & Self-Preservation and the K-H Equation
• Part 4: Energy Spectrum Equation
• Part 5: Energy Spectrum Equation via Fourier Analysis of the Velocity Field
• Part 6: Limitations, shortcomings, and refinements 

Chapter 6 (Turbulent Transport and its Modeling)

• Part 1: Molecular Momentum Transport
• Part 2: Lagrangian Analysis of Turbulent Transport
• Part 3: Homogeneous Shear Flow
• Part 4: Vorticity Transport 

Chapter 7 (Free Shear Flows) - Bernard

• Part 0: Coherent Structures
• Part 1: Introduction
• Part 2: Turbulent Wake
• Part 3: Turbulent Jet
• Part 4: Turbulent Mixing Layer

Chapter 7 (Free Shear Flows) – Pope

• Part 1: Round and 2D jets
• Part 2: Plain Wake and Plain Mixing Layer

Chapter 8 (Channel and Pipe Flows)- Bernard

• Part 0: Coherent Structures
• Part 1: Channel Flow
• Part 2: Pipe Flow 

Chapter 8 (Channel and Pipe Flows)- Pope

• Part 1: Channel Flow
• Part 2: Pipe Flow 

Chapter 9 (Boundary Layers) - Bernard 

Chapter 9 (Boundary Layers) – Pope

• Part 1: Boundary layer flow
• Part 2: Mixing length 

Chapter 10 (Turbulence Modeling)

• Bernard
• Pope