APPLICATIONS OF ALGEBRAIC REYNOLDS STRESS TURBULENCE MODELS .1. INCOMPRESSIBLE FLAT-PLATE

The ability of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes method, PAB3D, to s imulate the effect of Reynolds number variation by using nonlinear exp licit algebraic Reynolds stress turbulence modeling was assessed, Subs onic bat-plate boundary-layer flow parameters such as law-of-the-wall velocity distributions, local and average skin Friction, skin friction correlation, and shape factors were compared with direct numerical si mulation calculations and classical theory at local Reynolds numbers u p to 180 x 10(6). Each model displayed slightly different low and high Reynolds number characteristics, but generally compared very well wit h classical theories and data, No definitive advantage of one explicit algebraic Reynolds stress model over another was observed.