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Turbulent Length Scale

The length scale, , is a function of the distance to the nearest wall. It is computed as follows:

(183)

For the DES model, is a coefficient and is the largest distance between the cell center under consideration and the cell centers of the neighboring cells. The function is given by [28]:

(184)

where

(185)

The optional low-Reynolds number correction function is designed to prevent activation of the low-Reynolds number terms when in "LES" mode [28]. It is defined as:

(186)

where the damping functions , and are defined as appropriate for the DES model. The coefficient is a computed iteratively as a nonlinear function of the other model coefficients, as described in [28]. It has a value of 0.424 when the standard model coefficients are used.

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