# Postgraduate study

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# Aerospace Engineering & Management MSc

## Turbulent Flows 5 ENG5280

- **Academic Session:** 2025-26
- **School:** School of Engineering
- **Credits:** 10
- **Level:** Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
- **Typically Offered:** Semester 2
- **Available to Visiting Students:** No
- **Collaborative Online International Learning:** No
- **Curriculum For Life:** No

### Short Description

In this course the basic theory of turbulence is introduced and discussed in the context of free shear and wall-bounded flows. Different computational methods for the modelling and numerical simulation of turbulent flows are presented and illustrated by practical examples.

### Timetable

2 lectures per week

### Excluded Courses

None

### Co-requisites

None

### Assessment

80% Written Exam

20% Report

**Main Assessment In:** April/May

### Course Aims

The aim of this course is to give a solid grounding in the physics of turbulence and experience of different approaches to the modelling and numerical simulation of turbulent flows.

### Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ outline the general features of turbulent flows;

■ describe statistical methods for the characterisation of turbulent flows and apply the methods to the practical analysis of data;

■ distinguish between different classes of turbulent flows;

■ summarise the phenomenological description of turbulence by Richardson and Kolmogorov, and recognise its benefits and limitations;

■ explain different approaches to the modelling and numerical simulation of turbulent flows;

■ select and apply different RANS turbulence models recognising their advantages and limitations.

■ critically evaluate results from RANS turbulence models in the context of the scientific literature and present results in the form of a technical report.

### Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must attend the degree examination and submit at least 75% by weight of the other components of the course's summative assessment.

Students must attend the timetabled laboratory classes.

Students should attend at least 75% of the timetabled classes of the course.

Note that these are minimum requirements: good students will achieve far higher participation/submission rates.  Any student who misses an assessment or a significant number of classes because of illness or other good cause should report this by completing a MyCampus absence report.

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- [Programme overview](https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/aerospace-engineering-management/)
- [ENG5280 reading list](https://glasgow.rl.talis.com/courses/eng5280.html)