Compressible turbulence transport equations for generalized second order closure

Progress on the theory of second order closure in turbulence models of various types requires knowledge of the transport equations for various turbulence correlations. This report documents a procedure that provides such equations for a wide variety of turbulence averages for compressible flows of a multicomponent fluid. Generalizing some work by Germano for incompressible flows, we introduce an appropriate extension of his generalized second order correlations and use a generalized mass-weighted averaging procedure to derive transport equations for the correlations. The averaging procedure includes all of the commonly used averages as special cases. The resulting equations provide an internally consistent starting point for future work in developing single-point statistical turbulence transport models for fluid flows. The form invariance of the in-compressible equations also holds for the compressible case, and we discuss some of the closure issues and frequently ignored complications of statistical turbulence models of compressible flows