Abstract: This special issue of the Journal of Applied Mechanics contains 19 articles originally presented at ENIEF 2004, the XIV Congress on Numerical Methods and Their Applications, held in San Carlos ...

Abstract: Streamline curvature in the plane of the mean flow is known to exert a proportionately greater effect on the turbulent mixing processes than might be expected from inspection of the conservation ...

Abstract: Representation theorems for isotropic functions are used to construct a closure model for the fluctuating pressure-strain-rate correlation tensor. In contrast to alternative proposals in the literature, the present model ...