Wall, DylanPaterson, Eric G.2021-01-042021-01-042020-12-18Wall, D.; Paterson, E. Anisotropic RANS Turbulence Modeling for Wakes in an Active Ocean Environment. Fluids 2020, 5, 248.http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101719The problem of simulating wakes in a stratified oceanic environment with active background turbulence is considered. Anisotropic RANS turbulence models are tested against laboratory and eddy-resolving models of the problem. An important aspect of our work is to acknowledge that the environment is not quiescent; therefore, additional sources are included in the models to provide a non-zero background turbulence. The RANS models are found to reproduce some key features from the eddy-resolving and laboratory descriptions of the problem. Tests using the freestream sources show the intuitive result that background turbulence causes more rapid wake growth and decay.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalstratified wakesTurbulenceRANSstress-transportArticle - Refereed2020-12-24https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids5040248