Atila Pantaleão Silva Freire
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Abstract: The lecture discusses the historical development of different schools for the treatment of turbulent flows. One of them, in particular, has shown a clear advantage on simulating engineering flows. Other approaches have striven on identifying the structural aspects of complex flows and on determinism. Despite the dominant role of the existing movements, it is argued that even very complex problems can be adequately addressed through simple mechanistic models, with much embodied physics and capacity to run on real time.
Keywords: Turbulent flows; Historical development; Mechanistic Models; Complex flows; Determinism