Tabatabaian presents students, academics, researchers, and professionals working in a wide variety of contexts with an introduction to the fundamental physics, characteristics, and common models of turbulent flows. The material is presented utilizing COMSOL Multiphysics software to illustrate practical and industrial applications. The author has organized the main body of his text in four chapters devoted to a summary of turbulence fundamentals, approaches and models for turbulence modeling, an overview of COMSOL Multiphysics software and the CFD module, and application examples for turbulent flow models. Mehrzad Tabatabaian is a faculty member of the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada. Distributed in North America by Stylus Publishing and Distribution. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)