Turbulence Modeling: A Brief Overview of Charles G. Speziale’s Contributions Available to Purchase

Charles Speziale was, throughout his career, associated almost exclusively with the academic community. His affiliations included Princeton, Stevens, Georgia Tech, ICASE, CTR, and Boston University. His collaborators during his career constitute a sizable portion of the “Movers and Shakers” in the Turbulence Modeling and Turbulence Computation Arenas. However and perhaps atypically for the era of the late 70’s to early 90’s he was interested in and focused on the exigencies/requirements arising from “Practical Applications”. The Research areas to which he contributed throughout his career are exceedingly broad in scope — allowing him to bring to the Turbulence Modeling problem a rich/continually-enriched background in continuum mechanics. These areas included non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, kinetic theory of gases, vortex dynamics and non-linear transition flow dynamics. This intellectual experience base enabled him to make serious and lasting contributions to the turbulence modeling areas of streamline curvature, rotational influences, renormalization group theory, large eddy simulation, dissipation rate equation development, wall region modeling, direct numerical simulation, compressibility influence, second order closure and a plethora of canonical criteria for modeling, calibration and validation.