Entropy Production in Turbulent Flow

Dear Colleagues,

The importance of the study of turbulent flows is well known, as they are typical in industrial applications. There are many studies in the literature dealing with the analysis of turbulent flows for different configurations, on the other hand many aspects need further investigation.

The focus of this special issue is on the study of the entropy generation in turbulent flows from the theoretical or applicative point of views.

Entropy generation can be used as a practical framework for design and optimization of devices characterized by turbulent flows, in order to improve their efficiency, as in the case of combustion chambers, vortex tubes, turbulence promoters and porous media. This could be an area worth of investigation, in order to promote the utilization of entropy generation analysis in the engineering practice.

Furthermore, theoretical investigation is necessary to provide simple approaches for the estimation of entropy generation in numerical models, for example when turbulence models other than k-ɛ are taken into account.

These are only two examples of areas worth investigations and the present special issue is open to consider high quality papers dealing with other aspects of entropy production in turbulent flows.

Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Bianco
Dr. Bernardo Buonomo
Dr. Omid Mahian
Dr. Anatoliy Khait
Dr. Mattia De Rosa
Guest Editors

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