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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Numerical Analysis Volume 2009, Article ID 370289, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2009/370289 Research Article Enhanced Physics-Based Numerical Schemes for Two Classes of Turbulence Models Leo G. Rebholz Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Leo G. Rebholz, rebholz@ Received 29 June 2009; Accepted 5 August 2009 Recommended by William John Layton We present enhanced physics-based finite element schemes for two families of turbulence models, the NS-ω models and the Stolz-Adams approximate deconvolution models. These schemes are delicate extensions of a method created for the Navier-Stokes equations in Rebholz 2007, that achieve high physical fidelity by admitting balances of both energy and helicity that match the true physics. The schemes’ development requires carefully chosen discrete curl, discrete Laplacian, and discrete filtering operators, in order to permit the necessary differential operator commutations. Copyright q 2009 Leo G. Rebholz. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction Energy and helicity play fundamental physical roles in the development of turbulent flow. They are conserved in inviscid flow, are delicately balanced when viscous and body forces are present 1, 2, are believed critical in flow structure development 3, and are cascaded jointly through the inertial range until they are removed by viscous forces 4. Furthermore, their dissipation is closely tied to turbulence decay, and helicity has the topological interpretation that it is nonzero if and only if the velocity field is not reflectionally