Brian Launder

Brian Edward Launder,

Education and career

Launder received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from

Work and recognition

Launder's main focus of research is the

. The ${\displaystyle k}$-${\displaystyle \epsilon }$ model introduced by W. P. Jones and Launder is considered to be the most popular ${\displaystyle k}$-${\displaystyle \epsilon }$ model in the turbulence modelling community.^[2] They introduced this model in the 1972 paper titled "The prediction of laminarization with a two-equation model of turbulence" and is often referred to as the Standard ${\displaystyle k}$-${\displaystyle \epsilon }$ model. Launder also developed, along with his co-workers Gordon J. Reece and Wolfgang Rodi, a second order closure model, known as Launder–Reece–Rodi model (1975), which became one of the most thoroughly tested turbulence models.^[5][6]

In recognition of his contribution to

Selected books

• B. E. Launder and D. B. Spalding, Mathematical Models of Turbulence, Academic Press (1972).^[7]
• B. E. Launder and N. D. Sandham, Closure Strategies for Turbulent and Transitional Flows, Cambridge University Press (2002).^[8]
• Brian Launder and J. Michael T. Thompson: Geo-engineering climate change. Environmental necessity or Pandora's box?. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 2010.
  ISBN 978-0-521-19803-5
• Kemal Hanjalic and Brian Launder: Modelling turbulence in engineering and the environment. Second-moment routes to closure. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 2011.
  ISBN 978-0-521-84575-5

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