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RNGkepsilonmodel
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TheRNGmodelwasdevelopedusingReNormalisation
Group(RNG)methodsbyYakhotetaltorenormalisethe
NavierStokesequations,toaccountfortheeffectsofsmaller
scalesofmotion.Inthestandardkepsilonmodeltheeddy
viscosityisdeterminedfromasingleturbulencelengthscale,
sothecalculatedturbulentdiffusionisthatwhichoccursonly
atthespecifiedscale,whereasinrealityallscalesofmotion
willcontributetotheturbulentdiffusion.TheRNGapproach,
whichisamathematicaltechniquethatcanbeusedtoderive
aturbulencemodelsimilartothekepsilon,resultsina
modifiedformoftheepsilonequationwhichattemptsto
accountforthedifferentscalesofmotionthroughchangesto
theproductionterm.

Contents
1TransportEquations
2Constants
3ApplicabilityandUse
4References

TransportEquations
Thereareanumberofwaystowritethetransportequations
forkand ,asimpleinterpretationwherebouyancyis
neglectedis

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Turbulencemodeling
Turbulence
RANSbasedturbulencemodels
1. Lineareddyviscositymodels
1. Algebraicmodels
1. CebeciSmithmodel
2. BaldwinLomaxmodel
3. JohnsonKingmodel
4. Aroughnessdependentmodel
2. Oneequationmodels
1. Prandtl'soneequationmodel
2. BaldwinBarthmodel
3. SpalartAllmarasmodel
3. Twoequationmodels
1. kepsilonmodels
1. Standardkepsilonmodel
2. Realisablekepsilonmodel
3. RNGkepsilonmodel
4. Nearwalltreatment
2. komegamodels
1. Wilcox'skomegamodel
2. Wilcox'smodifiedkomegamodel
3. SSTkomegamodel
4. Nearwalltreatment
3. Realisabilityissues
1. KatoLaundermodification
2. Durbin'srealizabilityconstraint
3. Yapcorrection
4. RealisabilityandSchwarz'inequality
2. Nonlineareddyviscositymodels
1. Explicitnonlinearconstitutiverelation
1. Cubickepsilon
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2. EARSM
2. v2fmodels
1.
model
2.
model
3. Reynoldsstressmodel(RSM)
Largeeddysimulation(LES)
1. SmagorinskyLillymodel
2. Dynamicsubgridscalemodel
3. RNGLESmodel
4. Walladaptinglocaleddyviscosity(WALE)model
5. Kineticenergysubgridscalemodel
6. NearwalltreatmentforLESmodels
Detachededdysimulation(DES)
Directnumericalsimulation(DNS)
Turbulencenearwallmodeling
Turbulencefreestreamboundaryconditions
1. Turbulenceintensity
2. Turbulencelengthscale

where
and

and

Withtheturbulentviscositybeingcalculatedinthesamemanneraswiththestandardkepsilonmodel.

Constants
Itisinterestingtonotethatthevaluesofalloftheconstants(except )arederivedexplicitlyintheRNGprocedure.Theyare
givenbelowwiththecommonlyusedvaluesinthestandardkepsilonequationinbracketsforcomparison:
(0.09)
(1.0)
(1.30)
(1.44)
(1.92)
(derivedfromexperiment)

ApplicabilityandUse
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AlthoughthetechniqueforderivingtheRNGequationswasquiterevolutionaryatthetime,it'susehasbeenmorelowkey.
Someworkersclaimitoffersimprovedaccuracyinrotatingflows,althoughtherearemixedresultsinthisregard:Ithasshown
improvedresultsformodellingrotatingcavities,butshownnoimprovementsoverthestandardmodelforpredictingvortex
evolution(boththeseexamplesfromindividualexperience).Itisfavouredforindoorairsimulations.

References
Yakhot,V.,Orszag,S.A.,Thangam,S.,Gatski,T.B.&Speziale,C.G.(1992),"Developmentofturbulencemodelsforshear
flowsbyadoubleexpansiontechnique",PhysicsofFluidsA,Vol.4,No.7,pp15101520.
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