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    Global-in-time existence of weak solutions to Kolmogorov's two-equation model of turbulence
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2015) Mielke, Alexander; Naumann, Joachim
    We consider Kolmogorov's model for the turbulent motion of an incompressible fluid in 3. This model consists in a Navier-Stokes type system for the mean flow u and two further partial differential equations: an equation for the frequency and for the kinetic energy k each. We investigate this system of partial differential equations in a cylinder x ]0,T[ ( 3 cube, 0 < T < +∞) under spatial periodic boundary conditions on x ]0,T[ and initial conditions in x {0}. We present an existence result for a weak solution {u, , k} to the problem under consideration, with , k obeying the inequalities formula1 and formula2.
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    On the existence of global-in-time weak solutions and scaling laws for Kolmogorovs two-equation model of turbulence
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2018) Mielke, Alexander; Naumann, Joachim
    This paper is concerned with Kolmogorov's two-equation model for free turbulence in space dimension 3, involving the mean velocity u, the pressure p, an average frequency omega, and a mean turbulent kinetic energy k. We first discuss scaling laws for a slightly more general two-equation models to highlight the special role of the model devised by Kolmogorov in 1942. The main part of the paper consists in proving the existence of weak solutions of Kolmogorov's two-equation model under space-periodic boundary conditions in cubes with positive side length l. To this end, we provide new a priori estimates and invoke existence result for pseudo-monotone operators.