Special Session on Turbulence Modeling - 100 Years of Ludwig Prandtl's Mixing Length Model

In April 1925, Ludwig Prandtl published his seminal work entitled “Bericht über Untersuchungen zur ausgebildeten Turbulenz” in the journal Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, in which he proposed a novel approach to computing the mean flow field of turbulent fluid motion. This approach – later known as the turbulent mixing length model – became the starting point for one hundred years of research in statistical turbulence modeling.

The aim of this event is to review the various ways in which Prandtl’s work has influenced and inspired the development of statistical turbulence models over the last hundred years and to discuss future perspectives for turbulence modeling and turbulent flow computation.