Abstract
The importance of including additional terms for rapid distortion and return to isotropy in the modeling of the pressure-strain correlation in turbulent shear flows under the influence of external body forces is examined. Simplications of the Reynolds-stress equations are made by invoking the two-dimensional boundary layer approximations and assuming that production of turbulence energy balances viscous dissipation. Results indicate that for small external body forces a Monin-Oboukhov formula for the mixing-length is again obtained. However, the effects of the additional rapid distortion and return to isotropy terms on the formula are negligible when compared with the use of the simple return to isotropy term proposed by Rotta. In view of this, significant improvement on mixing-length closure models could not be obtained by refining the simple Rotta model for the pressure-strain correlation.
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