We develop the dynamic renormalization group (RNG) method for hydrodynamic turbulence. This procedure, which uses dynamic scaling and invariance together with iterated perturbation methods, allows us to evaluate transport coefficients and transport equations for the large-scale (slow) modes. The RNG theory, which does not include any experimentally adjustable parameters, gives the following numerical values for important constants of turbulent flows: Kolmogorov constant for the inertial-range spectrum
C
K=1.617; turbulent Prandtl number for high-Reynolds-number heat transfer
P
t
=0.7179; Batchelor constant
Ba=1.161; and skewness factor
¯S
3=0.4878. A differential
K-
[`(e)]\bar \varepsilon
model is derived, which, in the high-Reynolds-number regions of the flow, gives the algebraic relation
v=0.0837 K
2/
[`(e)]\bar \varepsilon
, decay of isotropic turbulence as
K=O(
t
–1.3307), and the von Karman constant
[`(e)]\bar \varepsilon
, and[`(e)]\bar \varepsilon
is finite. This latter model is particularly useful near walls.Key words Renormalization group - turbulence theory - inertial range - turbulence transport - Reynolds number - large-eddy simulation - computational fluid dynamics