Computational Models for Turbulent Reacting Flows

Rodney O. Fox received his PhD from Kansas State University and is currently the Glenn Murphy Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Iowa State University. He has held visiting positions at Stanford University, California, and at the CNRS Laboratory in Rouen, France, and has been an invited professor at ENSIC in Nancy, France, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award and has published over 65 scientific papers.

• 1. Turbulent reacting flows; 2. Statistical description of turbulent flow; 3. Statistical description of turbulent mixing; 4. Models for turbulent transport; 5. Closures for the chemical source term; 6. PDF methods for turbulent reacting flows; 7. Full PDF simulations; Appendices.

'Fox has become a master of the material described in the book, and has made significant contributions to the subject. The writing is clear and authoritative, and contains ample historical and modern references. The book is attractively presented …'. Journal of Fluid Mechanics