Effect of anisotropy and viscous dissipation on turbulence production (Q1069814)

The paper is concerned with turbulent flow of incompressible, spatially homogeneous viscous fluid. A model for turbulence energy equation is obtained, ignoring the pressure redistribution term in dynamical equations for the Reynolds stresses. The mechanism of dissipation turbulence production is discussed and shown that the turbulence kinetic energy decays upto a constant value as time becomes infinitely large, i.e., for isotropy, dissipation inhibits the production process and if \(\overline{u^ 2}>\overline{v^ 2}\) initially then dissipation causes reduction in anisotropy.