Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to assess the importance of the explicit dependence of turbulent diffusion on the gradients of mean-velocity modeling in second moment closures on three-dimensional (3D) detached and secondary flows prediction. Following recent theoretical work of Younis, Gatski, and Speziale, 2000, [Proc. Royal Society Lon. A, 456, pp. 909–920], we propose a triple-velocity correlation model, including the effects of the spatial gradients of mean velocity. A model for both the slow and rapid parts of the pressure-diffusion term was also developed and added to a wall-normal-free Reynolds-stress model. The present model is validated against 3D detached and secondary flows. Further developments, especially on the echo terms (which should appear in the formulation of pressure-velocity correlation), are discussed.

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