The attached eddy hypothesis is used to develop a means of generating synthetic turbulent
boundary layers. Fluctuating velocity fields are created from simple vortex shapes using the
Biot-Savart law. These are superposed with mean velocity profiles from experiment or RANS
to create boxes of data which can be fed in through the inflow plane of a simulation. This
provides realistic time varying inflow data. The method is computationally inexpensive
compared with other synthetic inflow generation methods. Two flows are investigated using …